Walter Lantz New Funnies #141

"Paper vs. Paint" kicks off in Walter Lantz New Funnies #141 (1948), a 10-cent comic featuring a delightfully chaotic seaside adventure written by Gaylord Du Bois. When the beach gets too crowded, a group of kids—Jo, Andy, Charlie, and Harry—find themselves stranded on a sandbar, turning their beach umbrella into a raft, then a tree house, and finally a target for a very confused hunter named Gooney. The cover by an unnamed artist captures the zany energy of the tale, where even the most ordinary objects become unlikely heroes in a tale of misadventure and mistaken identity.