Choice Cartoons from Sports Illustrated

A single oversized 1957 issue from Perma Books, Choice Cartoons from Sports Illustrated collected gag cartoons from the magazine’s early years. Writer-artist John Dempsey, alongside Bill Harrison and B. Wiseman, filled its pages with the kind of wry, single-panel humor that defined mid-century sports cartooning. It stands as a tidy time capsule of the magazine’s lighter side before it became the sports journalism powerhouse we know today.