Four Color #1348

Dell's Yak Yak: A Pathology of Humor is a wonderfully absurdist humor comic from 1962, and Jack Davis's cover sets the tone perfectly. A wide-eyed, big-nosed kid in a red tunic draws a bow and arrow while a rope coils around his feet — all under a glowing full moon — as a ring of gloriously grotesque onlookers crowd in, their exaggerated, rubbery faces radiating bemused menace. The countdown text ("Ten, nine, eight, seven…") adds a delicious sense of impending chaos, making this Davis-crafted cover an irresistible invitation to whatever comedic mayhem waits inside.