Daffy Duck #30

Phil De Lara puts Daffy Duck in full chaotic motion on this 1962 Dell cover, depicting the scatterbrained duck mid-sprint as he clutches a fistful of letters and an air mail bag while a mailbox tumbles behind him — a farmhouse barely visible on the distant horizon. It's a wonderfully energetic snapshot of Daffy at his most frazzled, suggesting that whatever's inside "Ticket to Trouble" probably started with the best of intentions. A charming piece of early-'60s funny-animal comics that captures Daffy's irrepressible personality in a single, perfectly composed image.