Four Color #1149

Football chaos takes center stage on this 1960 Dell issue, with Goofy barreling forward in full uniform — helmet askew, football tucked under one arm and a play diagram clutched in the other — while a small mouse player wearing jersey number 5 looks on from behind. Paul Murry's cover art captures Goofy's wonderfully uncoordinated energy perfectly, from the flying shoe to the crumpled game plan that suggests strategy and execution are two very different things. A cheerful ten-cent treat from the golden age of Dell's Disney lineup.