Mad in Orbit #13 (76-712)

Alfred E. Neuman takes the ultimate gap year in this 1975 Warner Books paperback collection, depicted on Norman Mingo's cover floating untethered in full space suit against a backdrop of stars and spacecraft — with a miniature suited companion drifting below him. Mingo's painted rendering brings a warmly absurd charm to the cosmic setting, capturing Alfred's gap-toothed nonchalance right where it belongs: somewhere between Earth and everywhere else.