Georgie Comics #15

A snowy hillside has gone gloriously wrong in this 1948 Marvel humor comic, as the cover by Mike Sekowsky captures a perfectly timed winter wipeout: a heavyset figure in a red snowsuit has crashed headlong into the snow crying "Ooow! Help! Save me!", a red-haired young woman has tumbled nearby, and the grinning Georgie comes bounding down with snowshoes, eagerly offering to help the "poor, pretty little thing." Sekowsky's loose, expressive linework gives the scene terrific comic energy, wringing every ounce of slapstick from the snowy chaos. At a dime a copy, Georgie Comics #15 offers the kind of lighthearted, laugh-first fun that made postwar humor comics such a pleasure.