Give Us a Smile, Beetle Bailey

A trio of digest-sized reprint collections from Tempo Books, Give Us a Smile, Beetle Bailey gathered Mort Walker's classic Camp Swampy strips from the 1970s into a compact, portable format. Running from 1979 to 1983, these three issues offered readers a concentrated dose of the long-running newspaper strip's signature humor, spotlighting the lazy private and his beleaguered superiors. While not a new story, the series served as a handy snapshot of Walker's enduring comic sensibility during a peak era of the franchise's popularity.