Real Screen Comics #54

The Fox and the Crow are back in fine form in this September 1952 DC offering, with the cover laying out a perfectly timed four-panel gag: the Crow presents the Fox with a boomerang as a gift, and — predictably — the Fox's enthusiastic throw sends it right back into his own noggin. It's the kind of breezy, good-natured slapstick that made this funny-animal series a delight, and the bright, clean cartooning keeps every beat of the joke landing with satisfying precision.