Four Color #73

Dell's Four Color series brings Andy Gump and his extended cast to vivid life in this 1945 ten-cent treat. The bright yellow cover showcases Andy's unmistakable jutting chin and top hat front and center, surrounded by four circular vignettes featuring other characters from the strip — including a woman in a fur-trimmed hat, a beret-wearing figure, a diver mid-leap, and a young fellow peering through a telescope. Writer and artist Gus Edson delivers the full Gumps experience in "The Library," keeping this beloved newspaper strip family as charming on the comic book page as ever.