Sugar & Spike #13

Sheldon Mayer's delightful duo are at it again in this 1958 DC charmer — the cover finds Spike and Sugar completely tangled up in a jumble of cord or rope, with an unseen adult (only their legs visible, holding what looks like a camera flash unit) looming nearby as Spike panics about Daddy's face turning red and Sugar coolly advises waiting until it turns purple. It's a perfectly captured moment of toddler mischief and unflappable baby logic, rendered with Mayer's warm, rubbery linework that made this series so endearing. Pick up issue #13 for "The Big New Word Mystery" and a cover gag that still lands with a smile more than sixty years on.