Popular Jokes #5

This August 1962 issue of Popular Jokes: The Big Laugh Magazine delivers the breezy, irreverent humor Marvel was packaging for grown-up funny-bone seekers at the time. Jack Cole's cover sets the comedic tone perfectly — a wide-eyed ship's officer looks on in stunned disbelief as a breezy wind sends a glamorous blonde's purple dress billowing at the rail, while a red life preserver and a peeking figure below the deck add to the nautical chaos. The caption — "Captain's compliments, Miss, but would you mind standing back from the rail? Ten passengers are stuck with their heads out of the portholes!" — tells you exactly the kind of good-natured, cheeky fun waiting inside.