Sugar & Spike #42

This "Special Vacation Issue!" finds Sugar and Spike in splendidly chaotic summer form — Sugar stands wobbling at the end of a high diving board, urgently warning Spike (who has climbed up the wrong side of the ladder with a puzzled "?") that there are no stairs on his end of the board, while a packed outdoor swimming pool full of tiny vacationing swimmers stretches out below them. Sheldon Mayer's cover perfectly captures the gentle, laugh-out-loud logic of toddler problem-solving, with two babies somehow managing to turn a simple pool outing into a precarious comedy of errors. A warm and charming slice of early-'60s DC humor that shows exactly why this series earned such devoted readers.