A couple of readers from the late Golden Age, Animal Antics 21 and 22 -- received yesterday from Sharon (skypinkblu) with her high-pressure sales tactics!
When the top-billed characters are the almost-forgotten Raccoon Kids, you know you're on the Short Bus!
Nip and Chip by Otto Feuer was the pleasant surprise in 21. Chip (a chipmunk) tricks Nip (a parrot, I think) out of his higgleberries by telling Nip that he has higgleberry fever. Odd.
The most interesting story in 22 was probably Nip and Chip again. Nip falls in love with Hildegarde, a hippopotamus (!) and Chip plays Cupid for him. Literally, with wings, bow and arrow and all. There's also sort of a Fractured Fairy Tale by Ed Dunn (I know nothing about him), slanted versions of Three Little Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood as told by Willy Wolf to his son.
Even though the stories are mostly fair to middling, the cartooning is sharp. According to GCD, the books are all by Otto Feuer, Rube Grossman and Ed Dunn, except for the puzzles.
Jack