Gwandanaland Comics #1948

This Gwandanaland Comics collection reprints Sparky Watts stories from Big Shot No. 80, and the original cover says it all — a colorful, chaotic sea serpent encounter where a young hero grabs hold of the wriggling creature while a companion urges him to haul it off to the zoo, with a startled child looking on from the water nearby. The bold, cartoony energy of that vintage cover, with its cast of Dixie Dugan, Tony Trent, and Mickey Finn spotlighted in portrait circles along the bottom, captures exactly the kind of breezy, good-humored adventure that made Big Shot such a lively anthology. A great way to revisit a fun corner of Golden Age comics history in one handy 2018 volume.