Jeanie Comics #18

Jeanie Comics #18 brings the signature charm of this 1948 Marvel humor series to a perfectly timed comedic tableau: Jeanie, cool as can be in her red dress, casually plays hard-to-get on the telephone while a desperate fellow crawls on the floor buckling her shoe and a wide-eyed friend urges her to hurry before he changes his mind. The cover's snappy dialogue and flustered suitor capture exactly the breezy, laugh-out-loud spirit that made Jeanie such a fun corner of postwar comics — all for a dime.