Terry-Toons Comics #19

Terry-Toons Comics #19 brings its signature wartime slapstick to the April 1944 cover in delightful fashion, where a goggled young pilot reads a "How to Drive a Tank" manual while carelessly steering a rumbling, multi-gunned tank straight toward a startled cartoon cat clutching a four-leaf clover and exclaiming, "Aah! A four-leaf clover… this is my lucky day!" The gag writes itself — good luck meeting bad driving — and the whole scene crackles with the breezy, anarchic energy that made Terry-Toons a favorite at the ten-cent rack. A small Red Cross War Fund emblem in the corner is a quiet reminder of the era in which this cheerful little comic was published.