Four Color #21

Walter Lantz's cheerful rabbit takes center stage in this 1943 Dell four-color treat, with Oswald grinning ear to ear as he plucks petals from a sunflower in a golden field, while a wide-eyed female bunny in a red bow looks on with delighted surprise. Dan Gormley's cover art captures the pair's breezy, sun-drenched charm with an ease that perfectly suits the lighthearted mood of the series. At 68 pages of full color for just a dime, this is a generous slice of animated-cartoon fun translated warmly onto the comics page.