Leave it to Binky #60 Poster (1958) by Bob Oksner DC Comics

Before there was Beaver, there was Binky. In fact, DC's workhorse teen humor title actually predated Leave It to Beaver by nearly a decade, launching in 1948 at the dawn of a mini-Golden Age of teen fun comics that also included A Day with Judy, Here's Howie, Buzzy, Scribbly and the unforgettable Everything Happens to Harvey. The titular buffoon was Bertram Binky Biggs, a genial Archie-esque high-school student who routinely got into and out of sitcom-style picles with the help of his doting girlfriend Peg and his mischievous, morbidly obese little brother Allergy. Drawing Binky from the title's inception was Bob Oksner, whose insouciant style was better suited to this kind of fare than the super-hero assignments he had been getting previously. Oksner's work would later grace the pages of the similarly madcap Stanley and His Monster, Windy and Willy and Angel and the Ape. Sadly, after this issue, Leave It to Binky was cancelled, although it was revived in 1967, whence it ran f