Sugar & Spike #1

(April-May 1956)

Draw Me! (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Art Instruction, Inc. / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Sugar and Spike / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

Pencils

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

Inks

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Once upon a time there was a cute baby boy...

Genre

humor; children

Characters

Spike Wilson [Cecil Wilson]; Sugar Plumm; Peg Wilson (partial); Harvey Wilson (partial); Barbara Plumm (partial); Bill Plumm (partial)

Synopsis

Sugar and Spike meet for the first time and realize that they can talk to each other, which is surprising because their parents don't understand baby talk.

Reprints

• in Sugar and Spike No. 1 Replica Edition (DC, 2002 series) #1 ([July] 2002)
• in The Toon Treasury of Classic Children's Comics (Harry N. Abrams, 2009 series) ([September] 2009)
• in The Sugar and Spike Archives (DC, 2011 series) #1 ([November] 2011)

Thumbs Up! (Table of Contents: 3)

Sugar and Spike / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

Pencils

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

Inks

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

Genre

humor; children

Characters

Sugar Plumm; Spike Wilson; Peg Wilson (partial); Barbara Plumm (partial); Harvey Wilson (partial)

Synopsis

Sugar's parents give her candy when she sucks her thumb, but Spike doesn't get the same result when he tries it.

Reprints

• in Sugar and Spike No. 1 Replica Edition (DC, 2002 series) #1 ([July] 2002)
• in The Sugar and Spike Archives (DC, 2011 series) #1 ([November] 2011)

Indexer Notes

cover sequence adapted from this story

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

American Seed Co. / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Write Your Own Comic Page! / activity / 1 page (report information)

Script

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

Pencils

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

Inks

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

Letters

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Every time I finish a page of comics...

Reprints

• in Sugar and Spike No. 1 Replica Edition (DC, 2002 series) #1 ([July] 2002)
• in The Sugar and Spike Archives (DC, 2011 series) #1 ([November] 2011)

Indexer Notes

page includes six uncolored panels of art with blank word balloons

Busy Corners (Table of Contents: 6)

Sugar and Spike / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

Pencils

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

Inks

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

Genre

humor; children

Characters

Barbara Plumm; Sugar Plumm; Spike Wilson; Uncle Charley (partial); Old Whiskers

Synopsis

Sugar's Uncle Charley turns out a be a great guy, for an adult.

Reprints

• in The Best of DC (DC, 1979 series) #47 (April 1984)
• in Sugar and Spike No. 1 Replica Edition (DC, 2002 series) #1 ([July] 2002)
• in The Sugar and Spike Archives (DC, 2011 series) #1 ([November] 2011)

A Little Preview (Table of Contents: 7) (Expand) /

The Three Mouseketeers / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Free Wheeling (Table of Contents: 8)

Sugar and Spike / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

Pencils

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

Inks

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

Genre

humor; children

Characters

Sugar Plumm; Spike Wilson

Synopsis

Sugar teaches Spike how to push a wheelbarrow, but then she wants a ride.

Reprints

• in Sugar and Spike No. 1 Replica Edition (DC, 2002 series) #1 ([July] 2002)
• in The Sugar and Spike Archives (DC, 2011 series) #1 ([November] 2011)

The Big Question (Table of Contents: 9)

Sugar and Spike / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

Pencils

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

Inks

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

Genre

humor; children

Characters

Bill Plumm; Sugar Plumm; Spike Wilson

Synopsis

Sugar and Spike try to practice their golf swings, like her daddy does.

Reprints

• in Sugar and Spike No. 1 Replica Edition (DC, 2002 series) #1 ([July] 2002)
• in The Sugar and Spike Archives (DC, 2011 series) #1 ([November] 2011)

Safety-Pin Scientist (Table of Contents: 10)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Sheldon Mayer ?

Pencils

Sheldon Mayer

Inks

Sheldon Mayer

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor; children

Reprints

• in Sugar and Spike No. 1 Replica Edition (DC, 2002 series) #1 ([July] 2002)

The Yak-Yak Box (Table of Contents: 11)

Sugar and Spike / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

Pencils

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

Inks

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

Genre

humor; children

Characters

Barbara Plumm; Sugar Plumm; Spike Wilson

Synopsis

Spike tells Sugar that he thinks his father must be inside the telephone.

Reprints

• in Sugar and Spike No. 1 Replica Edition (DC, 2002 series) #1 ([July] 2002)
• in The Sugar and Spike Archives (DC, 2011 series) #1 ([November] 2011)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 12)

Littul Snoony / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

Pencils

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

Inks

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Watcha doin', Snoony?

Genre

humor; children

Characters

Snoony Jibbet; Sisty Hunkel

Synopsis

Snoony is trying to invent cod liver oil that tastes like ice cream but doesn't want to taste it to see if he has succeeded.

Reprints

• in Sugar and Spike No. 1 Replica Edition (DC, 2002 series) #1 ([July] 2002)
• in The Sugar and Spike Archives (DC, 2011 series) #1 ([November] 2011)

Indexer Notes

possible inventory story originally intended for Scribbly (DC, 1948 series)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 13) (Expand) /

Stephens Credit Sales / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 14) (Expand) /

Stuart Greetings, Inc. / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 15) (Expand) /

Charles Atlas / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 16) (Expand) /

Aircraft Carrier / advertisement / 1 page (report information)