Cover by Bob Clarke and Norman Mingo. Stories and art by Don Martin, Al Jaffee, Stan Hart, Larry Siegel, Larry Gore, Lou Silverstone, Dick DeBartolo, Bob Clarke, Frank Jacobs, Jack Rickard, Arnie Kogen, Paul Coker, Jr., Mort Drucker, Peter Andrews, Tom Koch, George Woodbridge, Dave Berg, Angelo Torres, Don (Duck) Edwing, William Garvin, Irving Schild, and Sergio Aragones.

The Mad Super Special reprinted movie spoofs and classic material from the magazine, often accompanied by original stories and attached bonuses in the form of posters, stickers, recordings and comics. Parodies of the Clint Eastwood classic Dirty Harry, and the TV series Welcome Back Kotter, Barney Miller and Columbo, featuring art by Mort Drucker and Angelo Torres. Mad's takedowns of Nixon, guidance counselors, and Congress. Classic Lighter Side strips by Dave Berg, Marginals by Sergio Aragones, and Don Martin cartoons. Nixon Slipped Here; Dirty Larry; On the Subway; The Mad Politician's Primer; A Mad Look at Motorcycle Cops; While Hanging Around the Corner; Mad's Educator of the Year; Commemoratives to President Nixon; The Lighter Side of Cops; Mad's Simplified ABC Method of Bulling Your Way Through Election Campaigns; Welcome Back, Klodder; The Electrician; Letters to a Congressman That Were Answered by Form Letters From That Congressman; The Biology Professor; A Mad Peek Behind the Scenes at a Service Station; The White House Follies of 1977; In an Alley; What is a Guidance Counselor?; The Lighter Side of Corruption; Blarney Miller; The Small Businessman; A Mad Look at Service Stations; The Private Eye; The Mad Academy Awards for Small Businessmen; Mad's Guaranteed Effective All-Occasion Non-Slanderous Political Smear Speech; An Early Morning Bathroom Scene; Modern Teacher Magazine; A Mad Peek Behind the Scenes at the U.S. Congress; One Night in a Police Station; How Bad Childhood Habits Can Help in a Congressional Career; Clodumbo; Fold-In; Ron Reagan.