I like a good mystery as much as the next guy, but this comic, from a 1960 issue of a Dell publication called "1000 Jokes"* (yeah, I do some pretty strange things with my spare time) has me completely flummoxed. I'm serious, I've been looking at this thing for days and I can't make and sense of it:

Does it have something to do with the fact that a lot of people are smoking during the intermission? Is that funny? Does it have to do with the fact that there's a naked woman standing outside smoking? Is that funny? I pride myself with knowing quite a bit about the era and the culture at the time (you know, a guy is looking at a ferocious dinosaur skeleton and he says the monster's expression reminds him of his wife, stuff like that), but, even wearing those goggles, it makes no more sense. 

I even tried taking a couple steps back, as it were, and included the next cartoon on the same page (by a different artist) to see if it made sense, and it's slightly more funny:

See, it looks like the guy's going to start pegging people off with a slingshot as they stand outside the theatre at intermission. I know it's how I feel. But it's pretty damn funny. Right? It's strange, because every other joke in the damn book elicits at least a knowing smirk from me, except this one. Perhaps I will draft a strongly-worded letter to the publisher. 

*The magazine "1000 Jokes" actually has well under 100 jokes. I counted. Maybe they're talking about the entire run of the publication.