Mutt & Jeff #59

Mutt and Jeff are deep in a lemonade enterprise on this August–September 1952 cover, where the tall, wild-haired Mutt recoils in alarm at finding a fish swimming in his glass while the dapper, top-hatted Jeff stands behind their "5¢ a Glass" stand with a goldfish leaping cheerfully out of the punch bowl. Jeff's deadpan response — "Can you think of a BETTER way to keep it stirred up?" — says everything you need to know about the duo's endearingly crooked logic. Cover art by Sheldon Mayer brings the timeless Bud Fisher characters to life with crisp, expressive linework that makes this slice of mid-century comic humor genuinely charming.