Dotty Dripple Comics #12

Based on the beloved newspaper comic strip by Buford Tune, this June 1950 Harvey Comics issue captures the warm, wisecracking spirit of "America's Laugh-a-Second Family" right on its cover — a lively dinner-table scene where a cheerful, hat-wearing fellow delightedly exclaims, "Gosh, for a minute I was afraid they wouldn't ask me," surrounded by a crowd of eager kids with spoons at the ready. Buford Tune's cartooning is full of bounce and personality, from the polka-dotted youngster front and center to the grinning faces jostling around the yellow tablecloth. At a dime a copy, Dotty Dripple Comics #12 offers exactly the kind of good-natured family comedy that made this series a staple of postwar funny-book reading.