Sugar & Spike #14

Sheldon Mayer's delightful cover for this 1958 DC gem tells a little four-panel story all on its own: Sugar and Spike are happily playing with alphabet blocks and toy cars when a cuckoo clock sends them off to bed — and the next day, that same "coo coo" triggers a gloriously chaotic flying-toy explosion. It's a perfectly observed slice of toddler logic, rendered with Mayer's warmly expressive linework and gentle humor that made this series so charming. A lovely ten-cent snapshot of mid-century all-ages comics at their most endearing.