Sugar & Spike #68

Sheldon Mayer's cover for this 1966 DC issue captures everything delightful about Sugar and Spike: red-haired Spike is wedged halfway into a fireplace while blonde Sugar looks on with wide-eyed curiosity, a mysterious creature lurking in the chimney above and a question mark hanging in the air between them. The cover teases a complete book-length adventure featuring the return of 125-year-old Great-Great-Great Grampa Plumm, plus the promised fun of "Sugar & Spike and the Cowboy Santa Claus." As a bonus holiday treat, the issue includes pint-size do-it-yourself Christmas cards — a genuinely charming extra that makes this a especially festive package from Mayer at his warm, witty best.