Comic Cavalcade #48

A wonderfully chaotic house-washing scene fills Rube Grossman's cover for this December/January 1951 DC anthology, with the Fox and the Crow, the Dodo and the Frog, and Nutsy Squirrel all tangled up in buckets, ladders, and a cascade of soapy water. The ensemble cast's slapstick energy — characters scrambling up rungs, sloshing pails, and getting thoroughly soaked — captures exactly the kind of cheerful mayhem these funny-animal stars were known for. At 68 big pages for just 15 cents, this issue packs in plenty of Sheldon Mayer's sharp humor alongside the cover chaos.