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I don't recall where I found this link yesterday, but I think beable will find it useful.

http://www.gocomics.com/mythtickle/2011/02/28/

(I suspect I may regret this.)
 

For a long time now, I've been trying to identify the first comic book that I ever owned.  I've asked around, posted in newsgroups, etc., without success.  Here's what I wrote in a newsgroup message in August 1993:

Yesterday evening, I referred back to that ancient mystery in a follow-up to a different story-ID request.  And this time, finally, someone came through!

It's an issue of Treasure Chest of Fun and Fact, a weird science-fiction comic apparently published for the Catholic Church and distributed primarily to students at Catholic schools.  Which goes some way towards explaining why I wasn't having a lot of luck tracking it down.

It's interesting to note what I've remembered and what I've forgotten about it, in the nearly-40-years since I read it.  Many of the details of the "science" and "technology" are pretty clear, as is the overall appearance of the space ship (with its ice-cream-cone-shaped  engines) and the nature of the letter column.  I don't remember much about the people, nothing about the plot with the aliens remains with me, and that bizarre cover doesn't look remotely familiar.  The guy who tracked the thing down suggested that my old copy might not have had its cover, and that's certainly a possibility.

Getting that little mystery solved was a nice event in a day that was, in other respects, remarkably crappy.

I'm sure that Lynn Johnston wasn't intending to imply anything about Elizabeth's parentage in today's reprint.

Still, John does look gobsmacked by the suggestion, doesn't he?