Chic Young's Dagwood Comics #101

Poor Dagwood just can't catch a break — the cover of issue #101 finds him mid-stride at a bus stop, briefcase in hand, having yanked both shoes free from a patch of wet cement and leaving his plaid socks soaked and his dignity behind. Chic Young's loose, expressive linework wrings every drop of physical comedy from the scene, with Dagwood's wide-eyed, open-mouthed panic perfectly capturing the everyman suburban mishaps that made this series so endearing. For a dime in 1959, Harvey Comics delivered exactly the kind of cheerful, relatable chaos that kept Blondie's bumbling husband a household name.