Real Screen Comics #82

The Fox lounges contentedly in a deck chair reading a booklet labeled "Wild West Tales," blissfully unaware that the Crow is crouching nearby with a lit fuse coiled around the chair's legs — a setup that promises exactly the kind of mischievous payoff the Fox's thought bubble ("Hmm — I wonder why Crow said I'd get a BANG out of this story…?") perfectly telegraphs. It's a wonderfully constructed visual gag that captures everything charming about this DC funny-animal series, with the story title "Thees ees a Steek-op!" hinting at wild western hijinks to come. For fans of lighthearted 1955 cartoon comedy, this issue of Real Screen Comics delivers the Fox and the Crow at their scheming, slapstick best.