Sad Sack Comics #209

George Baker's cover for Sad Sack #209 delivers an instantly charming slice of army-life chaos: Sad Sack has just been walloped with a crate of "Grade Z Eggs," sending the contents splashing in a wide arc right into the face of a sputtering sergeant, while a cook watches from the doorway and little Muttsy scrambles underfoot. Harvey's long-running military comedy series was still going strong in 1969, and this 15-cent issue — with interiors written, drawn, and lettered entirely by Fred Rhoads — captures exactly the kind of slapstick bad luck that made the character "loved by millions.