Freddy #26

Charlton's teen humor series delivers a perfectly timed winter gag on this January 1961 cover by Jon D'Agostino: a cheerful blonde girl ice-skates in a breezy halter top and skirt, entirely unbothered by the cold, while a bundled-up, teeth-chattering Freddy struggles just to stand near the campfire. Her breezy declaration — "I adore being out in this invigorating cold weather, don't you, Freddy?" — says everything about the comic mismatch between the two. At just a dime, this Charlton gem offers the kind of light, charming humor that made teen comics such a staple of early '60s newsstand racks.