Independent Firework
A boy and his firecracker, five mid-summer Daily Doodles
I have no idea if the last panel was just one of those "hit on the same idea" comics, or whether it was stuck in my subconscious, but it is very close to the cover of Mad Magazine, July, 1963, which I surely read in July of 1963, at the impressionable age of ten. Reposted on the Mad website July, 2011. [2011 July 1]