Joe Palooka Comics #55

From the pages of Ham Fisher's beloved boxing strip comes a cover that puts champion Joe Palooka in a genuinely harrowing spot — dangling from a rope over a rocky chasm while gripping another figure hanging below him, a dark, looming presence crouched on the clifftop above. Harvey Comics' April 1951 edition of Joe Palooka Comics Monthly headlines the urgent question "Can Joe Save Jerry from the Yawning Chasm of Death?" and throws in bonus Knobby and Humphrey strips for good measure. At just a dime, this is Ham Fisher delivering pulse-quickening adventure alongside the good-natured humor that made Joe Palooka the "Champ of Comics.