Sixty Wackiest "LIFE" Covers

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A Funny Site of the Day with Mike Durrett


Wacky is not the best term to describe these images from "LIFE" magazine's archives. Amusing, cute, and nostalgic are better words for the funny pictures in this collection of joyful Americana from earlier eras.

Interspersed among the once-newsworthy topics are notable comic figures Mae West, Sid Caesar, Ben Turpin, Pee-wee Herman, Miss Piggy, Jack Paar, Jane Fonda as Barbarella, President Johnson's beagles, and my favorite cover, the one wall-mounted behind me, an exuberant August, 1951 snapshot of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.

Additionally, "LIFE" has plugged all of its 1936-1972 issues into a special Cover Search engine, so if you have a specific memory not included with the "wackiest" items or you are simply curious, plug-in search terms to recall the photographs. Be sure to put names in quotes (i.e. "Jackie Gleason") to narrow your results. I did and I was delighted to locate the adorable 1960 Hayley Mills edition.

Sixty Wackiest "LIFE" Covers
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