Patsy Walker #5

Patsy Walker's archery lesson is going spectacularly wrong on this cheerful 1946 cover by Al Jaffee — her bowstring has just snapped with a resounding "SNAP," sending her flustered instructor reeling backward while arrows fly every which way and a target waits patiently in the distance. It's a wonderfully comic tableau that captures exactly the breezy, good-humored spirit Patsy Walker Comics delivered to teen readers that decade. With Al Jaffee handling both story and art inside, issue #5 promises plenty more of that warmly funny energy.