Rusty Comics #12

Marvel's humor anthology "America's Funniest Female!" served up lighthearted domestic chaos in April 1947, and this issue is a fine example of the series at its most energetic. The cover captures a wonderfully frantic scene: Rusty, in her red plaid dress, recoils in alarm as a young man in striped trousers scrambles up a wobbling red ladder — paint bucket swinging dangerously — while two mischievous little kids at the base seem to be the culprits behind the whole mess, with brown paint already flying everywhere. For a dime, this was exactly the kind of breezy, good-natured comedy that made postwar funny-book afternoons so enjoyable.