Four Color #1091

Dell's Four Color #1091 brings readers the charming world of Jacky's Diary, written and drawn entirely by Jack Mendelsohn. The cover introduces us to Jacky himself — a grinning, round-faced kid in a striped shirt and plaid shorts, cheerfully labeled "Me" — alongside three diary-entry panels recounting a tractor ride on the farm, a baseball game where nobody quite connects with the ball, and an overnight hike with what Jacky helpfully defines as "Cub Scouts, except smaller." Mendelsohn's wonderfully loose, kid-scrawled artwork and Jacky's deadpan dictionary definitions (a jigsaw puzzle: "a game that comes all ready broken") make this 1960 ten-cent gem an endearing treat for anyone who appreciates humor told from a refreshingly honest, grade-school perspective.