Top Sacred

Hugh Burnett’s single-issue creation for Merlin Press in 1966, Top Sacred is a one-shot comic that satirizes bureaucracy and ecclesiastical absurdity through its titular character, a bumbling clergyman. Burnett, best known for his Thelwell cartoons, brings his signature dry wit and clean linework to this forgotten gem, which stands as a curious artifact of mid-60s British humor comics. Though brief, it captures a moment when the publisher experimented with topical, adult-oriented satire outside the superhero mainstream.