Beetle Bailey and Sarge

Mort Walker’s long-running newspaper strip Beetle Bailey spun off a single, self-contained comic book one-shot for Dell in 1958, spotlighting the beloved title character and his perennial foil, Sergeant Snorkel. Written and drawn entirely by Walker, this issue captures the classic, gentle military humor that made the strip a fixture of American comics. While brief, it stands as a tidy, standalone artifact of the franchise’s early, pre-Beetle Bailey comic book era.