Leave It to Binky #13
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeLeave It to Binky #13 is a representative artifact of DC's early Golden Age teen-humor strategy, sitting squarely in the period when the publisher was deliberately cultivating a wholesome, Archie-adjacent market to broaden its readership beyond superhero fans. The issue is an unusually dense anthology of the era's print culture: its pages carry not only multiple Binky comedy shorts and a Scribbly Jibbet backup by Sheldon Mayer himself, but also one of Jack Schiff's National Social Welfare Assembly public-service pages featuring Wonder Woman — a recurring DC initiative begun in 1949 that used superhero cameos to promote civic values and helped insulate the publisher against the rising cultural backlash against comics. Taken together, the issue documents the fluid, magazine-style format of early DC humor titles, where licensed-character advertisements, backup features, and PSA inserts shared space as naturally as the lead strips.
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The series was conceived by Sheldon Mayer, who retired from editing at DC in 1948 to draw and write humor features full-time; Bob Oksner provided the art that defined Binky's visual identity from the very first issue. Hal Seeger contributed scripts throughout the early run, and Larry Nadle served as editor. Issue #13 was on sale February 27, 1950, with an April 1950 cover date, placing it in the heart of the original sixty-issue run that stretched from 1948 through 1958.
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- On-sale date of February 27, 1950; April 1950 cover date — issue #13 in the original bimonthly run of Leave It to Binky (DC, 1948 series).
- Cover and primary story art by Bob Oksner, who drew the series from its debut through its 1958 cancellation; Sheldon Mayer wrote and drew the Scribbly Jibbet backup story in this issue.
- The Scribbly Jibbet backup — in which Snoony schemes to marry Scribbly off to an heiress who turns out to have been kidnapped — is scripted and drawn by Mayer, one of comics' earliest cartoonist-auteurs, making it a rare dual-creator showcase within a single issue.
- A one-page 'It's Fun to be Healthy' public service announcement featuring Wonder Woman (Diana Prince), scripted by Jack Schiff and drawn by Irwin Hasen, appears in this issue; Schiff's NSWA PSA series had launched with August 1949 cover-dated DC comics.
- The back cover carries a Daisy Air Rifles advertisement featuring Red Ryder, accounting for that licensed Western character's index entry; several other cataloged names (Tom Mix, Whip Wilson, Two-Gun Percy, Captain Marvel, Robotman, Ibis, etc.) likewise appear in house ads or product advertisements rather than as participants in the Binky narratives themselves.
- The lead Binky story involves Peggy pressuring Binky to outshine the rival Sherwood at her party — a recurring plot engine that reflects the strip's deliberate echoing of Archie Comics dynamics, which DC was consciously trying to replicate in its teen-humor line.
- An ad for DC's Feature Films #1 (adapting the film Captain China) also appears, with the GCD noting the ad's cover art replaces the original photographic cover with an illustration — an early example of DC cross-promoting its short-lived film-adaptation imprint.
- The series ran for 60 issues in its original incarnation (1948–1958), was revived in 1968, and eventually retitled Binky with issue #72; a spin-off, Binky's Buddies, ran 12 issues from 1969 to 1970.
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