For Laughing Out Loud #26

Gahan Wilson's cover for this 1963 Dell humor digest sets the tone perfectly with a two-panel gag: a young boy crouches to light what appears to be a firecracker while his pipe-smoking father and stout mother look on — then, in the panel below, only a singed, smoky crater remains as the parents' expressions haven't budged an inch. Wilson's deadpan wit is right at home in For Laughing Out Loud, and the promise of "Jokes Galore" and "More Laughs than Ever" inside makes this a cheerful pick-up for any fan of mid-century American humor comics.