Harvey Hits #8

George Baker's cover for this 1958 Harvey Comics anthology captures Sad Sack in full miserable form aboard the S.S. Troopship — peering through a porthole at a fish that seems to be mocking him, while a fellow soldier looks on nervously from a bunk below, a U.S. duffel bag hanging nearby. It's a wonderfully gloomy little scene that perfectly sums up the hapless soldier's lot in life, promising more of the gentle, self-deprecating military humor that made Sad Sack such an enduring comics presence.