Bring Me the Canary, For Today, He Must Die.

.. or one of Jack Bradbury’s lovely Flippity & Flop stories, taken from Real Screen Comics #24 (1949). They were usually a little funnier than this, but you’ve gotta love the art, which is a pure cartoonist’s dream. It’s obvious one of the Warner guys, most likely Mike Maltese (who freelanced for ACG regularly during the 1940s) wrote this (see page four, panel three for all the evidence you need).

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  1. This is beautiful! His art is so animated, it seems to move on the page.

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