Sugar & Spike #90

Sheldon Mayer's cover for Sugar & Spike #90 sets up a delightful puzzle: young Spike stands on the lawn holding a leash attached to an enormous, polka-dotted, horned creature — purple, toothy, and cheerfully monstrous — while Sugar peers out from a tiny doghouse doorway asking if it's a bunny, a puppy-dog, or a pussy-cat. The beast's gleeful reply of "Nope! Keep guessing!" makes it clear that whatever a "Flumsh" is, it defies easy categorization. DC's long-running humor series for the youngest readers was still delivering genuinely funny, warmly drawn moments in 1970, and this issue looks like a fine example of why it endured.