The Adventures of Bob Hope #22

The cover of this 1953 DC comedy series says it all: Bob Hope is thrashing through the English Channel in a panic while a very real shark closes in behind him, as two laughing women in a nearby rowboat deliver the punchline — "And he said he couldn't swim!" Owen Fitzgerald's cheerful, rubbery linework captures the absurdity perfectly, wringing maximum laughs from Bob's wide-eyed terror against the breezy amusement of his onlookers. If this is the brand of good-natured humor filling issue #22's pages, fans of classic comic comedy are in for a treat.