Swing with Scooter #14

Henry Scarpelli's cover for this September 1968 DC teen comedy sets the scene perfectly: Scooter finds himself in what appears to be an exotic, Arabian Nights–style setting, exclaiming "This must be a dream… somebody stick me with a pin!" as a turbaned, scimitar-wielding sultan figure closes in, while a dark-haired young woman plays a lute nearby and a blonde companion looks on in amusement. The colorful, tongue-in-cheek setup ties right into the interior story, "Sylvester… Son of Ahbu!" — promising plenty of the good-natured, fish-out-of-water humor that made Swing with Scooter a fun corner of DC's line. A charming slice of late-'60s comics whimsy at its most cheerful.