Four Color #251

This delightful 1949 Dell one-shot sends the round, red-striped Hubert to Camp Moonbeam, where Dick Wingert's cover art finds him grinning contentedly underwater — diving helmet in hand — as a cheerful mermaid perched on a rock offers a piece of fruit to a curious goldfish swimming between them. Wingert's sunny, loose linework gives the whole underwater scene a breezy, good-natured charm that perfectly suits the humor strip's easygoing spirit. At 52 pages of all comics for a dime, it's a generous slice of mid-century funny-page fun.