Top Notch Laugh Comics #41

From 1943, this MLJ Magazine entry in the Top-Notch Laugh Comics run delivers a barn full of comic chaos. Don Dean's cover captures a raucous milking-machine mishap, with a red-shirted boy wrestling an unhappy cow while a bewildered man in a bow tie, a grinning masked hero in yellow, a mustachioed fellow, and a small child all look on — the cow's speech balloon lamenting "Ouch!! Gol'darn these hyar new fangled milkin' machines!" says it all. At a dime a copy, this 1943 issue promises the kind of cheerful, anything-goes humor that made MLJ's humor titles a genuine treat for wartime readers.