Chic Young's Dagwood Comics #104

Based on Chic Young's beloved Blondie comic strip, this September 1959 Harvey Comics entry finds poor Dagwood on the wrong end of a soda-straw ambush — his face taking a direct hit of fizzy spray while a mischievous kid sits coolly across the table, straw in hand and utterly unrepentant. It's the kind of breezy, good-natured slapstick that made Dagwood Bumstead one of America's most endearing everyman characters, rendered here with all of Chic Young's characteristic charm. At a dime a copy, Dagwood Comics #104 is a cheerful snapshot of 1959 humor at its most delightfully domestic.