Mutt & Jeff #15

Mutt & Jeff #15 brings Bud Fisher's beloved comedy duo to this Fall 1944 DC issue, with a cover by Sheldon Mayer that sets the laughs in motion immediately. The scene shows a heavily bandaged Mutt flat on his back in a hospital bed — leg in traction, a cat perched on the headboard — complaining that a car nearly killed him, while the dapper Jeff arrives with flowers and deadpans that things could have been worse... it could have been him. It's the kind of dry, perfectly timed gag that made this strip a staple of American humor, all for a dime.