Animal Antics #5

From DC's cheerful funny-animal series, this November/December 1946 issue features Presto Pete — a rabbit in top hat and tails — waving a magic wand as a parade of kangaroos multiplies out of thin air behind a bewildered mama roo, all set against a bold blue spotlight on a sunny yellow cover. Pete's speech bubble says it all: "I Don't Know How I Do It!" — a perfectly self-aware punchline for a magician whose trick has clearly gotten out of hand. Ed Dunn's lively cover art captures the anarchic charm that made Animal Antics such a fun corner of the DC lineup, and the interior tale "Petrified Picnic" promises more of the same good-natured mayhem from artist Rube Grossman.