Dotty Dripple Comics #16

Harvey Comics' family humor series delivers another round of domestic comedy in this February 1951 issue, created entirely by Buford Tune. The cover sets the slapstick tone perfectly: a dazed father in a red jacket and hat staggers off his sled at the bottom of a snowy hill, stars spinning around his head, while two kids and a dog look on — one gleefully pointing as a speech bubble announces, "I just dared my father to slide down 'Hairpin-Turn' Hill!" With the story "Keeping Warm" inside, this ten-cent laugh riot promises the kind of cheerful, relatable family humor that made Dotty Dripple a staple of postwar comics reading.