Hello Buddies #48

Hello Buddies #48 delivers the "Cartoons Jokes Fun" the title promises, with a sharp gag cover by Frank Beaven showing a glamorous redhead in a strapless checkered dress and top hat coolly informing a bewildered older gentleman — cigar in hand — that she wants to marry early so she can enjoy the alimony while she's still young. Harvey's 1950 humor anthology was never short on wit, and this cheeky exchange, framed against a bright yellow background with a tiny showgirl dancing in the corner of the logo, sets a delightfully irreverent tone for whatever cartoons and jokes await inside.