Benjamin Gump

A Golden Age curio from Dell's beloved Popular Comics, Benjamin Gump stepped onto the page in 1944, brought to life by the creative pairing of Zack Mosley and Boody Rogers — two names with real comic strip pedigree. His run was brief, spanning just a handful of years and four catalogued appearances, but the company he kept was wonderfully eclectic: sharing those anthology pages with the likes of Smilin' Jack, Smokey Stover, and Etta Kett. For collectors with a soft spot for the warm, variety-show charm of Golden Age anthology comics, Benjamin Gump is one of those quietly intriguing footnotes worth seeking out.