Marmaduke Mouse #17

The cover of this March 1950 Quality Comics entry sets up a perfectly timed gag: Perry Pig is curled up fast asleep inside a hanging chandelier, while Marmaduke Mouse and King Louie exchange bewildered looks below — King Louie explaining that Perry claimed to be "a light sleeper." It's a wonderfully silly piece of visual wordplay, rendered in the bright, bouncy cartoon style that made funny-animal comics such a cheerful staple of 1950 newsstands. At just ten cents, this issue promises the kind of warmhearted, pun-driven humor that fans of the series have come to love.