Gay Comics #22

A birthday party goes gloriously wrong on the cover of this 1945 humor anthology, as a glamorous blonde in red attempts to blow out the candles on a "Happy Birthday" cake — only for a hidden fan (operated by a grinning bystander) to send frosting and streamers exploding directly into a wide-eyed fellow's face with a resounding "SWISH!" The speech bubble teases the setup perfectly: "I bet you can't blow hard enough to — ugh — splat." Lighthearted slapstick comedy at a dime a copy — Gay Comics #22 delivers exactly the cheerful, joke-filled fun its title promises.