Joker Comics #6

From January 1943, this tenth-of-a-dollar humor title serves up a lively scene bursting with cartoon energy. Cover artists Mike Sekowsky and George Klein put a smitten young man front and center, kneeling before a tall, glamorous redhead named Tessie — his speech balloon proclaiming "Tessie, when I look at you things happen to me!" — while a goggle-wearing bystander, a wide-eyed bellhop, a uniformed cop, and a tumbling acrobatic figure in the background all react to the chaos her presence seems to inspire. Joker Comics #6 promises the kind of breezy, gag-driven fun that made wartime humor anthologies a welcome escape.