Mutt & Jeff #36

Bud Fisher's beloved comic strip duo returns in this 52-page DC offering, with a cover by Sheldon Mayer that perfectly captures the strip's sly domestic humor. The tall, lanky Jeff gestures animatedly to the short, stout Mutt, their speech bubbles revealing a classic bit of married-man commiseration — a burglar got in, but Jeff's wife mistook the intruder for her husband sneaking home late, illustrated by a silhouetted scuffle playing out dramatically against a glowing orange backdrop. A bewildered cat with a question mark overhead rounds out the gag, setting a wonderfully breezy tone for what's inside this 1948 ten-cent treat.