Harvey Hits #97

Harvey Hits Magazine presents another misadventure with Gabby Gob, the hapless sailor whose best intentions seem forever doomed by comic circumstance. Fred Rhoads's cover captures the chaos perfectly: Gabby is caught mid-disaster on the deck of a ship, accidentally dumping a massive bucket of what appears to be food scraps and assorted mess overboard — just as a stern, barrel-chested officer rounds the corner below. At 12¢, this 1965 issue promises the kind of good-natured, slapstick military humor that made Harvey's humor titles such a cheerful corner of the comics rack.