Adventures in Comic-Boxing: Lion in Wait!

Nobody - but NOBODY - can draw 'em like Sergio Aragones!  

It's come to where I treasure each and every issue of GROO that comes out! 

 Just LOOK at all the DETAIL he puts into the stuff! 

Sergio Aragones aided and abetted by Mark Evanier are an unbeatable combination!  With that said, I invite you to enjoy a Sergio panel that brought an out-loud laugh to my lips, and a still greater appreciation for his talent to my heart!  

From HOUSE OF MYSTERY #175 (DC Comics, Cover Date: July-August, 1698), comes this single-panel cartoon from the first of a regular series called "Cain's Game Room". 

Cain takes over with this issue (above), with tingling stories, and entertaining games! 

Here's our host now, ready to take the kiddies to his Game Room! 

Click to enlarge and see all the detail behind the main title logo!

Cain is the caretaker of The House of Mystery and, starting in his first issue, he's clearly got many fun plans for his guests!  Have a peek below, why don't you! 

After emerging from what looks to be an infinite maze, this guy's heading for his "reward"... and it's not exactly a welcome hunk of cheese!  

Now, THERE'S a LAUGH-OUT-LOUD MOMENT... and I ain't, um... lion! 

Biting the Barks Bullet!

Okay, readers, followers, and friends, I've stalled around long enough by running some older (...though rather entertaining in their own right) filler posts, but it's time to (as the title says) "bite the Barks bullet"!  

Yeah, lots of things have been going on, but I've promised the revelation of my favorite Carl Barks story for too long a while... 

So, without further ado... 

That greatest of works from the greatest Master of Duck that ever lived... 

Is...  

You know it.... 

You love it... 

You wanna give it a big bear hug - except it would downgrade the condition... 

The one... 

The only... 

The incredible...

LOST IN THE ANDES!!!

From DONALD DUCK FOUR COLOR #223 (Dell Comics, 1949)...

GCD LINK: https://www.comics.org/issue/7367/

...And THE BEST OF DONALD DUCK #1 (Gold Key Comics, Cover Date; November 1965) where I first read it in sheer awe...

GCD LINK: https://www.comics.org/issue/19707/

...And DONALD DUCK ADVENTURES #3 (Gladstone Series I, Cover Date: February, 1988)...

GCD LINK: https://www.comics.org/issue/44021/

..And DONALD DUCK AND FRIENDS #325 (Gladstone Series II, Cover Date: March, 2005)...

GCD LINK: https://www.comics.org/issue/293795/

I like the Daniel Branca cover, as I like everything Branca does, BUT, WHY-OH-WHY DID THEY NOT USE THE CLASSIC COVER FOR THIS REPRINT??!! 

...And the various Carl Barks Library Collections by Gladstone and Fantagraphics...

...Like this one! 

Not only is it my FAVORITE CARL BARKS STORY, I'd go as far as to name it my FAVORITE COMIC BOOK STORY OF ALL TIME - PERIOD!  

No exaggeration, I made up a TOP TEN LIST a number of years ago, and this one topped it!  

As you might expect, there's Barks, Gottfredson, Murry, Mickey, Donald, Scrooge, Superman, Batman, and even one Judge Dredd!  

This one, to be exact! 

As to the merest hint of why LOST IN THE ANDES is my "FAVORITE COMIC BOOK STORY OF ALL TIME - PERIOD", you may wish to check out <a href= ><b>MY THIRD EVER POST</b></a> to this humble Blog!

...Go on, delve into a piece of TIAH history... No charge!  ...Step back, Scrooge... my readers go first!  

Congratulations to everyone who chose this great story as your guess, and we'll finally get to Favorite Gottfredson as soon as we can!