Four Color #423
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn the 1952 classic "Rhubarb," a Brooklyn baseball team's fortunes take a whimsical turn when a millionaire's beloved yellow tomcat—named after a slang term for a heated argument—inherits the franchise after his owner’s passing. With the press agent Eric Yeager as the cat’s reluctant guardian and a romantic subplot brewing with the cat-allergic Polly Sickles, Rhubarb becomes the team’s unexpected good luck charm. When gangsters kidnap the feline ahead of the championship game, the Loons’ hopes hang in the balance. Cover by Don Gunn.
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A millionaire who owns the Brooklyn Loons baseball team befriends a tough yellow tomcat that he names "Rhubarb" after the slang term for a baseball argument. Three years later, the man dies and leaves the bulk of his fortune and the ball club to Rhubarb. The Loons' press agent Eric Yeager is named legal guardian of the cat and a running sub-plot is his attempts to marry Polly Sickles, who is allergic to the cat. Rhubarb, who has been the Loons’ good luck charm during a winning streak, is kidnapped by some gangsters who plan on Brooklyn losing the championship game without their lucky mascot.
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