Rhyming Gag Titles in Archie’s Funhouse Comics Double Digest #12
Sad Lad
Theme Scheme
Heap Cheap
Work Turk
Library Lunacy
Sum Fun
Sock Yock, or “I Made a Big Hit Tonight”

I find the idea of titling these gags amusing enough already—the title takes up a panel, and the gag itself only lasts two to four panels—but it’s even funnier when the title has a lengthy subtitle. It’s a throwback to the overly words comic strips of the turn of the 20th century, which were so festooned with titles and captions and descriptives as to make the drawings superfluous. But even that style of overexplanatory panels was passé by the time Archie was created in the early 1940s.