April 2023
whole number 400
2023 pages 025-033 (8 pages)
Great issue for the landmark 400th, with a focus on Sheldon Mayer in his birthday month. Up front is an unpublished single page Sugar & Spike comic from circa 1960 that even I had never seen before (and I have a list of some 300 pages of unpublished S&S material by Mayer).
Inside is a sample daily strip of Mayer's circa 1980 comic strip proposal for Sugar & Spike and four pages of an unfinished Rudolph the Reindeer story "Easter Parade", from the late 1970s and inked by Tenny Henson. The backcover goes back to 1949 for a look at the cover of SCRIBBLY #5, with a classic Mayer gag.
Also this issue, RS notes the passing of Neal Adams in 2022 with some words on his work and influence.
