Mutt & Jeff #75

There's a perfectly timed gag right on the cover of this 1954 DC humor title: a police officer snoozes away in P.D. Car 32, dreaming of a log and a bone, while his radio crackles out an urgent all-points bulletin — "Be on the lookout for tire thieves!" — and sure enough, the patrol car itself sits propped up on wooden blocks, all four tires already gone. Sheldon Mayer's cover art wrings every drop of comic irony from the scene with clean, expressive linework that feels right at home in the long-running Bud Fisher tradition. It's the kind of cheerful, self-contained visual joke that made Mutt & Jeff a staple of mid-century funny-book shelves.