The Adventures of Bob Hope #93

Only at DC Comics could a living totem pole threatening to kill you qualify as a slow Tuesday — and that's exactly the absurd charm on full display in this 1965 issue of The Adventures of Bob Hope. The cover by Bob Oksner shows a tuxedo-clad Bob Hope hands raised in surrender as a menacing, sentient totem pole (speaking on behalf of the "International Super-Spy Syndicate Named T.O.T.E.M.") levels a gun at his nose, while a red-jacketed blonde woman behind him reaches toward a mysterious helmeted figure at a window — all as Bob wistfully wishes he were a woodpecker. It's a perfectly ridiculous spy-spoof setup, written by Arnold Drake, that promises the kind of gleefully goofy Cold War comedy this series delivered so reliably throughout the Silver Age.