Likely from a 1970s issue. With the stuff going on in Beirut lately it has crossed my mind. A woman visiting a man in a hospital in traction in a full body cast. She is (silently) yammering about everything bad in the world. You see an image of a war-torn city (that might be Beirut) and children starving somewhere in Africa (possibly Biafra). The man gnaws through the rope holding up the counterweight for his traction and crushes her with it. Maybe Don Martin.
Don Martin, “One Day in a Hospital,” MAD #128 (July 1969), p. 21.
Thanks. I found a Youtube rendering of it. I was right about Biafra but the city was Saigon.
Without meaning in any way to dispute you, how did you come upon this fully cited answer? Your personal encyclopaedic knowledge, a vast treasure trove of MADs in your attic and some lightning speed leafing through them, or some mad Google-fu skillz.
I am in awe and wish to learn from a Master.
I present to you the Don Martin Dictionary - an alphabetical list of every written sound effect to ever appear in a Don Martin comic.
A quick search for “hospital” turned up entries for CHOMP (“Patient Biting String”) and THWAK (“Chicago Policeman Hitting Hippie”).
Tears…streaming…down…cheeks…
Man, I needed that laugh. Thank you!
I’m looking forward to the deluge of Facebook likes after I post this.
Thank you. I’m not sure which is scarier: that you knew of that site, or that somebody took the effort to build that site.
In either case, kudos for a great answer to a seemingly impossible question. In well less than an hour no less.
You can also find the comic on YouTube in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj2P6tdr3hQ at 18:00.
I found the full panel (and the issue)
So much I remember from that issue. It is from a handful I found at a yard sale as a kid and read over and over.
I remember that particular comic too. I think it was from a Don Martin compilation. I recall getting all of the references except Biafra and didn’t learn about it until years later.
I remember that particular issue. What caught my eye at the store was the cover—somebody doing lines on a school chalkboard, and going from “I will never read Mad in class again” to “I will never read class in MAD again.” Hey, this might be more interesting than my usual diet of Gold Key comics featuring Hanna Barbera characters. It was the first Mad magazine I ever bought, but it would not be the last. Heck, I might still have that copy, packed away somewhere.
I do remember that Don Martin cartoon, and I knew about Biafra, mainly because when my sister and I balked at whatever Mom was serving for dinner, she reminded us about the starving children in Biafra.
Great memories! Thanks for posting your question.