So would you say the artist is Walt Kelly?
I have a Canadian edition of PLASTIC MAN published in the early '50s by Bell that has black and white ads on the inside front, inside back and back cover for paint books and colouring books featuring Willy and Wendy Wylie--all of which have featured cover art that is similar to or the same as this.
The inside front cover advertises Willy & Wendy Wylie Colouring Books on sale everywhere--Willy is dressed like a cowboy, Wendy is dressed like a pirate and they're with their pet monkey.
The inside back cover advertises Two Great New Colouring Books! WILLY AND WENDY WYLIE [TRAFFIC SAFETY PAINT BOOK] No. 3 and WILLY AND WENDY WYLIE [SAFETY FIRST PAINT BOOK] No. 4--the latter seems to be exactly the same as the STAR COLORING BOOK OF SAFETY FIRST given the cover features panels of A, B and C art the same as this.
The back cover advertises WILLY AND WENDY WYLIE [IN ANIMAL TOWN] No. 5--showing Wendy dressed up like a majorette, Willy dressed up in what I can only describe as some kind of Aladdin outfit, wearing a turbin, and they're surrounded by all manner of cartoon animals.
I've always wondered if these paint books were Canadian, American or British in origin.
I never dug a cave, but made several snow forts, dug out of all the snow that the snowploughs piled up in front of our house.
My father dug a profound hole in the backyard when I was little. I thought maybe he would dig all the way down to China. We recovered many ancient artifacts in this excavation. I found a plastic cowboy. My father found the pieces of a barrel which he put back together, so he had his own barrel. Why he did this probably had some practical reason--but I thought he did it for the adventure.
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