Camp Candy #2

Based on the beloved NBC animated series, Camp Candy #2 brings John Candy's cheerful, good-natured camp counselor persona to Marvel's comics lineup in this June 1990 issue. The cover by Howie Post captures the slapstick spirit perfectly — a gleeful, hammer-wielding John Candy stands obliviously atop a very unhappy bear while straightening the camp's entrance sign, quipping "I couldn't BEAR to leave this sign crooked!" as a group of panicked kids scrambles in every direction around him. It's a wonderfully silly scene that sets a warm, chaotic tone for the story inside, "The Counterfeit Campers.