Leading Comics #20

From DC's humor anthology comes this delightfully absurd 1946 entry — Leading Comics #20 features Nero Fox, billed right on the cover as "The Jive-Jumping Emperor of Ancient Rome," lounging in a hammock while a giant fan-and-ice-tube contraption blasts him with cold air, all while he complains he still can't keep cool. A small mouse-like companion tinkers away at the base of the gadget nearby, and a cheerful duck flutters overhead, completing the wonderfully chaotic scene rendered by Ed Dunn. For a dime, this issue — headlining the story "Bath Plug for the Night!" — promises the kind of breezy, slapstick fun that made postwar funny-animal comics such a pleasure.