Sad Sack Comics #117

Harvey Comics' long-running gag series delivers another round of slapstick misery in this 1961 installment. The cover by George Baker says it all: the perpetually put-upon Sad Sack — sporting a witch's hat and clutching a broom — looks dazed amid flying stars, while a furious sergeant gets drenched by a cascade of buckets and water, with a little dog adding to the chaos nearby. It's the kind of cheerfully chaotic street-cleaning gone wrong that made this series a staple of mid-century humor comics.