Four Color #60

This 1944 Dell ten-center brings a wonderfully chaotic charm to its cover, where a big red rooster takes center stage in a mad scramble alongside a gingerbread man, a gray cat, a hat-wearing fox, a rabbit, a buzzing bee, a gray rat, a pair of yellow chicks, and a tiny cloaked figure — all rendered with delightful energy by cover artist George Kerr. The lively crowd of storybook characters tumbling across the cream-colored background captures exactly the kind of warm, animated fun that made Dell's "Tiny Folks Funnies" a treat for young readers. A genuinely appealing slice of mid-1940s all-ages comics, full of personality in every corner of the cover.