Picked this up today from Purple Gorilla Comics - it's easily one of the oldest comics in the collection now, and is in incredible shape for its age. The Bushmiller "Nancy" stuff was good - it's a surprisingly surreal strip. The other stuff was pretty tame fare - mostly newspaper reprints, I think.
I've long wanted a proper Golden Age comic in the collection, and this one certainly qualifies. The way comic publication dates work, the comic was published in March-April of 1945, a few months before the end of the Second World War. This is alluded to in some of the content referring to the War as being ongoing. It's chilling to think of what was going on in Europe and the Pacific when this comic came out. I wonder what I'll think 20 years from now when I muse upon the comics that came out over the last few years...
I'm tired and we've just finished moving, but I have some other thoughts about the other strips in this comic. I'll get back to you.
"Hey, Bushmiller! -- Wake up and finish this drawing!"
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