Here’s a late 50′s Atlas funny animal one-shot signed by Stan Lee and his artist on Marvin Mouse one you’d never expect to see doing funny animals. Bill Everett, the man who created the Sub-Mariner, helps Stan create perhaps the single most unattractive and unfunny funny animal in the history of comics.

As previously established maybe it’s just because they just so gosh darn easy to write but Stan desperately relied on the stock dumb character as his protagonist. someone literally too stupid to live. I know that the dumb guy is a funny animal genre staple, which is understandable, seeing as how so many of them relied heavily on the rube/conman situation. Here, thanks entirely to chance, Marvin always gets the best of would-be sharpie Honest John. But as you’ll see the bulk of the “stories” are really just bad dumb jokes told in comic strip fashion. The only thing unique about Marvin is, in a complete reversal of the funny animal tradition he wore pants, but always went sans shirt. This first and the only issue of Marvin Mouse also contains a Dippy Duck two pager by Lee and Joe Maneely which while bad is actually an improvement over the rest of its contents.