Alley Oop: The Adventures of a Time-Traveling Caveman #3

This handsome 1995 Kitchen Sink Press hardcover collects the time-traveling exploits of V.T. Hamlin's prehistoric hero, and the cover delivers an immediate thrill: Alley Oop, suited up in a space helmet and armed to the teeth, rockets through a star-filled sky aboard a sleek red spacecraft, with a cratered moon surface looming on one side and a pale globe floating below. It's a wonderfully vivid image that captures the strip's cheerful genre-hopping spirit — a caveman equally at home dodging asteroids as dinosaurs. At $34.95, this third volume is a worthy centerpiece for anyone who loves the golden age of American newspaper comics adventure.