Comic Cavalcade #39

A summery splash of cartoon chaos graces the cover of this 1950 DC anthology, where a striped-shirt wolf goes tumbling headfirst off a diving board into a crowded waterway — with a goggled figure already submerged below, small characters wading in the water, a fishing duck on the bank, an amused onlooker in a life ring, and a woodpecker perched cheekily in the title lettering above. Rube Grossman's cover art captures the breezy, slapstick spirit that made Comic Cavalcade such a reliable source of all-ages fun in the postwar years. At 76 big pages for just 15 cents, this issue offers a genuinely generous helping of DC's humor comics lineup.