Sad Sack

Sad Sack is a bumbling, downtrodden Army private whose endless bad luck and good-natured incompetence make military life a constant comic ordeal. Originally created by Sgt. George Baker for Yank magazine during World War II, the hapless everyman soldier later headlined his own Harvey Comics series.

Few comic characters can claim a debut as historically charged as Sad Sack's — born in the pages of Yank, the Army Weekly in 1942, the very magazine distributed to American troops during World War II, and brought to life by cartoonist George Baker. This lovable, luckless everyman of the Golden Age went on to anchor a Harvey Comics universe all his own, headlining Sad Sack Comics, Sad Sack Laugh Special, and Sad Sack and the Sarge across an extraordinary eight-plus decades of publication. Along the way he shares his misadventures with a colorful cast including Sarge, General Rockjaw, and Slob Slobinski, with 94 catalog appearances and two collector-recognized key issues cementing his place in comics history. If you love characters with genuine roots in American cultural history and an enduring, warmhearted sense of humor, Sad Sack is absolutely worth your time.