In "Mad" #4 (April–May 1953), "The Shadow" was spoofed by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder. Their character was called "The Shadow'" (with an apostrophe), which is short for "Lamont Shadowskeedeeboomboom." The Shadow' is invisible as in the radio series; when he makes himself visible, he is attired like the pulp character but is very short and ugly; his companion, "Margo Pain," begs him to cloud her mind again. Throughout the story, someone is trying to kill Margo, getting "Shad," as she calls him, into various predicaments: He is beaten up by gangsters and has a piano dropped on him. He tricks Margo into an outhouse (the interior of which is an impossibly huge mansion) that he demolishes with dynamite. As The Shadow' gleefully presses the detonator, he says, "NOBODY knows to whom the voice of the invisible Shadow' belongs!" This story was reprinted in "The Brothers Mad" (ibooks, New York, 2002, ). Lamont Shadowskeedeeboomboom returned in "Mad" #14 (August 1954) to guest-star in "Manduck the Magician," a spoof by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder of the "Mandrake the Magician" comic strip. This story was reprinted in "Mad Strikes Back!" (ibooks, New York, 2002, ).