Chic Young's Dagwood Comics #22

Chic Young's beloved suburbanite is having anything but a smooth day on this September 1952 Harvey Comics cover, where Dagwood finds himself comically tangled in a long strip of film reel, mouth agape in pure panic, while a equally alarmed dog scrambles nearby and a movie projector spins wildly in the background. The story title "Hollywood Re-Bound" perfectly matches the celluloid chaos on display, promising the kind of good-natured domestic slapstick that made this series a staple of mid-century funny books. At just a dime, this one captures everything fans love about Dagwood — the wide eyes, the hapless energy, and the sneaking suspicion that nothing will ever go quite as planned.