Georgie Comics #16

A birthday kiss gone hilariously wrong — that's the spirit of Georgie Comics #16 from 1948, with cover art by Mike Sekowsky. The cover captures a perfect comedic moment: a glamorous dark-haired girl in a red dress leans in for the promised birthday smooch, while a wide-eyed, blushing older fellow in a checkered jacket eagerly anticipates it — only for a red-haired kid to dart between them, sending the "Happy Birthday" cake flying in a shower of crumbs. Sekowsky's rubbery, expressive cartooning squeezes every drop of slapstick charm out of the scene, making this a warm and genuinely funny slice of postwar teen-humor comics.