Sugar & Spike #79

Sugar and Spike's summer outing takes a hilariously messy turn on this 1968 DC cover by Sheldon Mayer, where the toddler duo finds themselves behind an enormous beachgoer — and Sugar is getting drenched by a dripping, second-hand ice cream cone, wailing her complaint in a speech bubble while Spike looks on from below. In the background, a diver leaps from a board, and a teaser at the bottom promises more mischief from Bernie the Brain and his egg-beater contraption inside. Mayer's warm, rubbery cartooning captures the gentle, good-natured chaos that made Sugar & Spike such a charming corner of DC's lineup throughout the 1960s.