Funny Stuff #11

A cheerful snapshot of postwar funny-animal mischief, this July 1946 DC ten-center features a cover by Sheldon Mayer that sets up a perfectly timed visual gag: a scruffy, bat-wielding lion character glowers with wounded pride as a dapper little giraffe points out — with gleeful innocence — that he hit the bull's-eye every time except once, while an arrow sparks off the ground right at the lion's feet. The target on the fence behind them is indeed riddled with arrows clustered neatly around the center, making the one stray shot impossible to ignore. It's warm, witty cartooning that captures exactly what Funny Stuff did best in its early years.