Chic Young's Dagwood Comics #102

Pure slapstick chaos reigns on Chic Young's cover for this July 1959 Harvey issue, as Dagwood tumbles headlong over a red sawhorse, a hammer flying free above him and nails scattering through the air. A cat bolts away clutching a fish in its mouth while a startled dog scrambles in the opposite direction — leaving poor Dagwood at the center of a perfectly timed home-improvement disaster. It's the kind of cheerful, good-natured mayhem that made Dagwood Comics a reliable ten-cent delight.