Hägar the Horrible #1 (12641-9)

Dik Browne's beloved red-bearded Viking stands sheepishly amid a pile of splintered wood — axe and shield in hand, door thoroughly demolished — while a blonde, horned-helmeted figure peers through the wreckage and deadpans, "What did you do? Forget your key again?" It's a perfect snapshot of the domestic chaos that made Hägar the Horrible a newspaper-strip sensation, collected here in this 1977 Tempo Books edition. If your sense of humor runs toward marauding Norsemen getting scolded like errant husbands, this one belongs on your shelf.