Sugar & Spike #41

Few comic covers capture the universal childhood panic of a crowded beach day quite like this one — Sugar and Spike are down at ankle-level amid a forest of adult legs on the sand, with Sugar earnestly coaching both of them: "Don't panic! Just keep saying to yourself — WE'RE NOT LOST! WE'RE NOT LOST! WE'RE NOT LOST!" Sheldon Mayer's linework is warm and wonderfully expressive, perfectly conveying Spike's wide-eyed unease as the two tots navigate a world literally too big for them to see over. Sugar & Spike #41 is a delightful slice of 1962 DC humor that reminds readers why Mayer's gentle, child's-eye-view comedy earned such a devoted following.