Tessie the Typist Comics #21

Tessie the Typist Comics delivers cheerful workplace comedy at its finest in this 1949 Marvel offering. The cover sets the tone perfectly: a poised, red-dressed Tessie steps coolly from an elevator while two unfortunate passengers are plastered against its back wall by the sudden stop, as a wide-eyed elevator operator looks on sheepishly — all punctuated by Tessie's deadpan quip, "I told you this elevator stops too fast!" Morris Weiss's clean, expressive linework gives the gag wonderful energy, and the promise of "A Raving Relative!" inside suggests the laughs are just getting started.