Popular Jokes #20

This February 1966 issue of Popular Jokes — The Cartoon Entertainment Magazine delivers the cheerful, knowing humor the series was built on. The cover sets the comedic tone immediately: a flustered pink-haired secretary named Elsie Smith sits at her typewriter while a bespectacled boss leans through a doorway, bragging via speech bubble that "Dianne runs one hundred words per minute!" — as a leggy, dark-haired woman in a yellow dress dashes past with notepad in hand, much to the wide-eyed astonishment of a green-clad onlooker. At a quarter a copy, it's a warm snapshot of mid-'60s office humor that invites you to "Join the Fun!" — exactly as the cover promises.