Here are two individual panels, taken from comics I've been reading recently, that jumped out at me as being particularly humorous or unusual that I wanted to share:
This is from a 1951 Dick Tracy story. I could probably have picked any of hundreds of just plain wierd Chester Gould panels- he delighted it making his strip as filled with eccentric characters and situations as possible. This is a panel from a sequence in which the villainess, baby-photographer 'Crewy Lou' (so named because of her haircut; crewcut on top, long at the back) is discovered by Tracy trying to fence stolen jewels hidden inside assorted types of fruit.
The panel was taken from issue 24 of Blackthorne Publishing's Dick Tracy Monthly. Blackthorne has since gone out of business, but you should be able to find the series back issue bins of better comic shops, and they're very entertaining.
The second image is from a Jack Kirby monster story Googam, Son of Goom and is representative of something Kirby like to do a lot; emphasize the overwhelmingly amazing cosmic scale of his stories by equally overplaying the utter 'normality' of the stunned mortals the events impact. In his New Gods series, four average humans brought to the Darkseid's planet Apokolips in order to test a brain scanning machine, fullfilled this role. In case you'd ever forget what they were there for, Kirby had the characters repeatedly say things like: "But I'm Victor Lanza! An insurance executive! A family man! My wife makes me carry and umbrella in case it rains! And now this! New Genesis! Apokolips! And things that would scare John Wayne!" throughout the story.
I just find it oddly amusing seeing an alien montrosity standing in a living room carefully explaining his plan for conquering and enslaving mankind. I love exposition.
The panel was taken from a story posted by member of the Yahoo Group Jack Kirby Pictures
