Leave It to Binky #36

DC's teen humor series serves up a perfectly awkward moment on this January 1954 cover, penciled and inked by Bob Oksner: a grinning blonde girl gleefully swings an axe at a wooden fence covered in carved love notes — "Herb Loves Peggy," "Bob Loves Peggy," and more — while a wide-eyed Binky in his varsity sweater looks on with clear unease. The speech bubble says it all: "See, Binky? I'm tearing up all my old love letters!" — a cheerful declaration that probably isn't as reassuring as she intends. Oksner's breezy linework and sunny yellow background capture that classic 1950s teen-comedy charm that made Leave It to Binky such a fun corner of the DC lineup.