Archie's Madhouse #59

Archie's Mad House #59 (February 1968) delivers the series' signature absurdist humor right on its cover, where a giant hand wielding a remote control sends miniature race cars — numbered 3 and 7, speeding past a "Drink Cola" billboard — into a sequence of chaotic "CRASH!" and "CRACK!" collisions, with a tiny helmeted driver tumbling free in the lower panel. It's a wonderfully zany two-panel gag, brought to life by the cover art of Bill Vigoda, Dan DeCarlo, and inker Jon D'Agostino. Inside, writer George Gladir and artist/inker Chic Stone serve up "The Mad Ad Monster," promising the kind of clever, offbeat comedy that made this Archie Series title a treat at 12 cents.