Funny Tunes #16

This Summer 1944 issue of Animated Funny Comic-Tunes serves up a wonderfully chaotic construction-site gag right on its cover. A pig in a worker's uniform brandishes a paintbrush near a bucket of hot rivets, while a mischievous striped-suited villain swings on a chain and takes a hammer to the works — with a small, scarf-wearing ghost-like figure tumbling into the mayhem below. For a dime, this slice of wartime funny-animal humor promises exactly the kind of slapstick energy its bold, cheerful cover delivers.