Mutt & Jeff #52

Bud Fisher's beloved comedy duo takes to the skies in this June/July 1951 issue, packed with 52 big pages of laughs for a dime. The cover, penciled and inked by Sheldon Mayer, says it all: a bright red-and-yellow plane nose-diving through the rain while the diminutive Jeff — goggled and grinning from the cockpit — cheerfully explains to a bewildered, tumbling Mutt that he turned off the fan because it was getting chilly up there. It's the kind of breezy, absurdist gag humor that made Mutt & Jeff a staple of American funny pages, and with a story like "Pelican-Fishing" waiting inside, this issue promises plenty more of the same good-natured chaos.