Man Comics #5

A menacing clown in a yellow jacket and red trousers dominates Joe Maneely's cover for this 1950 Atlas anthology, his speech bubble seething with jealous rage toward a woman and her companion visible in the circus background behind him. The cover text poses a genuinely unsettling question — was he the world's funniest clown, or its most dangerous killer? — perfectly teasing the lead story "Laugh Fool Laugh" alongside sidebar promises of "The Perfect Crime" and "The Human Sacrifice" packed into a generous 52 pages for just a dime.