Alley Oop by V. T. Hamlin: The First Time-Travel Adventures - January 1, 1939 - December 31, 1942 #[nn]

This handsome 2024 collection gathers V. T. Hamlin's newspaper strips from 1939–1942, showcasing the caveman hero Alley Oop leaping across eras in a wonderfully varied array of adventures. The cover says it all with a vivid mosaic of scenes: Alley Oop stepping out of a time machine alongside a scientist, facing off against a Cyclops-like giant, encountering a reclining figure in ancient-looking finery, riding alongside a dragon-mounted knight, confronting a warrior in a yellow-lit cave, and standing boldly aboard a ship in pirate-era garb. It's a terrific sampler of the strip's offbeat charm — proof that Hamlin's time-travel concept was as ambitious and entertaining as anything in the funny pages of its day.