Tessie the Typist Comics #4

This Fall 1945 issue of Tessie the Typist Comics opens with a wonderfully absurd cover gag: a sharp-eyed blonde — Tessie herself — perches on a stepladder, hammer and nail in hand, while a flustered young man named Skidsy sits dazed on the floor, stars spinning around his head, trapped alongside a painting of a woman in a yellow swimsuit. Tessie's exasperated word balloon — "Oh, Skidsy — how could you be so MEAN!" — captures the breezy, comedic energy that made Timely's humor titles such a lively corner of 1940s comics. At just a dime, this Fall issue delivers the kind of lighthearted, snappy fun that made postwar funny books a genuine treat.