Comic Cavalcade #42

A cheerful pile-up is in full swing on this Rube Grossman cover, where a dog in a red helmet clutches a football while a scrambling crowd of cartoon animals and characters — including a frog, a fox, and assorted runners — tumbles chaotically toward the end zone. Standing coolly to the side, a large black bird watches the mayhem with a shovel in hand, perfectly unbothered by the chaos. At 76 big pages for just 15 cents, this 1950 DC anthology delivers the Fox and the Crow, the Dodo and the Frog, and Nutsy Squirrel all under one cover — a genuinely fun package of humor comics from some of DC's most delightful funny-animal characters.