Our Gang Comics #16

A classroom in full comic chaos greets you on this March-April 1945 Dell issue — a bespectacled boy furiously chalks lines of punishment on the blackboard ("Our gang will not break another window…") while a stern teacher looks on, glass still shattering through the window behind her and two kids caught in the act outside. Walt Kelly's cover art is warm and lively, balancing the teacher's exasperated dignity with the kids' cheerful guilt in a way that feels more affectionate than scolding. Inside, Carl Barks handles the writing, penciling, inking, and lettering on "Touchdown!" — a rare all-Barks production that makes this 1945 issue a genuine treat for fans of the era's finest cartoon storytelling.