Breezy #26

This June 1958 Humorama digest delivers exactly what its tagline promises — "a lusty eyeful of robust entertainment" — through a cover packed with Bill Ward's signature pen-and-ink gag cartoons. Ward fills the page with multiple vignettes: a wide-eyed man seated beside a glamorous redhead, a shapely woman at a vanity mirror with a witty caption about hair loss, a sunbathing figure, and a woman at a counter, each panel brimming with the snappy double-entendre humor that defined the era's men's humor magazines. At 35 cents, this little digest showcases Ward's clean, expressive linework and his knack for punchy visual comedy in a format that felt like a chuckle in your pocket.