Hillbilly Comics #2

Charlton's "America's Zaniest Hillfolk" returns with issue #2, and Art Gates's cover sets the tone perfectly — a ragtag group of barefoot mountain folk has descended on New York City's 42nd Street, confidently consulting a compass and hollering "Tennessee is thet-a-way!" while bewildered city folk and a police officer look on near a Broadway bus. Promising to be "jam-packed with mountain humor," this 1955 Charlton gem also teases characters Gumbo Galahad and the story "New York and Bust" alongside the cover chaos. For fans of mid-'50s humor comics with big-city fish-out-of-water antics, this one delivers the laughs right from the front cover.