Sad Sack Comics #275

Harvey's long-running army comedy returns with issue #275, and George Baker's cover sets the perfectly chaotic tone: a hollering sergeant jabs an accusatory finger at the hapless Sad Sack while a column of soldiers marches past an "Overnight Bivouac Area" sign — all of it apparently stirred up by a cloud of smoke hiding something suspicious, with a cheerful little blue bird nesting nearby, blissfully unbothered by the military mayhem above. Baker's loose, expressive linework brings the bumbling warmth that kept this series "Loved by Millions" for decades, and at just 40 cents in 1980, this is army-life humor at its most endearingly screwball.