Buzzy #5

The cover of this 1945 DC Winter issue sets the comedic tone perfectly: Buzzy earnestly holds hands with a large, good-natured man while a smoldering ruin billows smoke in the background — apparently the aftermath of a cake-baking gone catastrophically wrong. A shocked girl looks on as the speech bubbles deliver the punchline with deadpan charm, the big fellow cheerfully forgiving with "boys will be boys" while Buzzy suspects he might just be dreaming the whole thing. George Storm's warm, expressive linework brings America's Favorite Teenster to life across a full 52 pages at the bargain price of ten cents.