I suppose I should go ahead and admit the obvious; as a kid I was diagnosed as having ADHD (Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder). And if I was going to be absolutely honest I’d confess that while I’ve mostly out grown the worst of it I still have a tendency to become obsessed with all sorts of things. Pens, fons, downloading…things, and not just comics but certain kinds of comics. For a while there I couldn’t get enough teen comics, now I’m all about British comics.

Which is why I’m presenting this 1952 issue of Sun, a astonishingly old fashioned looking publication that even at this late date (it’s the bloody space age for heaven’s sake) still looks a lot more like a turn of the century “story paper” (i.e. dime novel) with comic strips than a proper comic book as even the British knew it. I present this mostly as a historical curiosity but there’s some good stuff here. The highlight, for this very old American boy anyway, is the very nicely drawn installment of Jak of the Jaguars, where a Tarzan (or should that be a Bomba the Jungle Boy?) rip-off finds himself shanghaied into space.