Vintage collection of four original hand-inked three-panel Smilin’ Jack comic strips from early 1962, boldly drawn in pencil and ink on off-white artist’s cardstock, approximately 20.75 x 6.75, each stylistically signed within a panel, “Zack Mosley.” The four strips feature various stages during Lefty the astronaut’s mission into space, including a scene in which Lefty, after squeezing too hard on a food tube, picks “weightless blackberry-like clusters out the air,” and then says, “Quite a bit different from back on th’ farm…and maybe I’ll wish I were!” Three comic strips bear affixed correction blocks to the text; all feature blue crayon emendations by the artist or editor and are individually affixed with a small copyright panel removed from a newspaper. Two comic strips, dated January 23, 1962, and January 25, 1962, are matted and framed to an overall size of 26 x 20.75. In overall fine condition, with scattered soiling, and toning to worn edges. Oversized.
