Walter Lantz New Funnies #141
"Paper vs. Paint" kicks off in Walter Lantz New Funnies #141 (1948), a 10-cent comic featuring a delightfully chaotic seaside adventure written by Gaylord Du Bois. When the beach gets too crowded, a group of kids—Jo, Andy, Charlie, and Harry—find themselves stranded on a sandbar, turning their beach umbrella into a raft, then a tree house, and finally a target for a very confused hunter named Gooney. The cover by an unnamed artist captures the zany energy of the tale, where even the most ordinary objects become unlikely heroes in a tale of misadventure and mistaken identity.
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MY YAM MUH BEACH is too crowded: The kids are underfoot! They find a sand bar. Their beach umbrella serves triple-duty: first for shade; then as a raft, after the tide come in, cutting them off from the mainland; then as tree house, after they are blown offshore to a desert island where alligators dwell! Come day, hunter Gooney sights a Gollyfinkle's nest (the inverted beach umbrella cum tree house). HunterHarry's warning is interrupted by a loud repor!, Andy gurgles at Gooney: Take your big foot off my neck! Charlie squalls: Kids can't keep out from underfoot even on a desert island!
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