Gwandanaland Comics #519

This 2019 Gwandanaland Comics collection brings together the complete adventures of Dusty Rhodes, the persistent would-be Marine whose wartime misadventures made him a memorable figure of the Golden Age. The cover lays out the premise with breezy wit — a visual equation featuring Dusty himself, a dark-haired spy, and a Nazi officer, set against a chaotic Pacific naval battle with ships, planes, and explosions filling the seas below. Strip panels along the bottom show Dusty stumbling into trouble at a debarkation point, exclaiming over a big gun while a fellow sailor spots a mouse — the perfect snapshot of this lovable, hapless hero who always finds himself nose-deep in Marine affairs whether the Corps wants him or not.