# Comics about Babies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 17, 2016, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-about-babies/768892 "2016-10-17T23:05:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Marion\_Wormer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Marion\_Wormer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marion_Wormer)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-about-babies/768892/1 "2016-10-17T23:05:21Z")
A friend is having a baby shower. As a gag I want to get some comic books from the 1950 about talking babies. There was a boy and a girl who babbled (but their babble was turned into dialog in the speech bubble. Can’t remember the name. I thought they were Harvey books, but no luck. Maybe ARchie? I don’t think it was Marvel or DC. Anyone old enough to remember these? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-about-babies/768892/2 "2016-10-17T23:08:46Z")
This is best suited to Cafe Society. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-about-babies/768892/3 "2016-10-17T23:11:50Z")
Sugar and Spike, by DC? > **[Sugar and Spike](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_and_Spike)** > > Sugar and Spike is an American comic book series published by DC Comics from 1956 through 1971, named after its main protagonists. The series was created, written, and drawn by Sheldon Mayer. > The series was launched in 1956 along with another Sheldon Mayer creation The Three Mouseketeers, and it was supervised by Larry Nadle, who edited DC's humor line until his death in 1963. The Sugar & Spike series had 98 issues published in the United States through 1971, when due to Mayer's failing eyesi... 1956 to 1971 (or maybe 1991) > [@](#): > > The comic featured the misadventures of two toddlers named Sugar Plumm and Cecil “Spike” Wilson, who possessed the ability to communicate via “baby talk” with each other and to other infants, but not to adults ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-about-babies/768892/4 "2016-10-17T23:13:25Z")
Baby Huey was a harvey character ---
**Author:** ![Marion\_Wormer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Marion\_Wormer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marion_Wormer)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-about-babies/768892/5 "2016-10-17T23:31:04Z")
Sugar and Spike it is! Thanks!! ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2016, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-about-babies/768892/6 "2016-10-18T00:23:55Z")
Sugar and Spike could talk to one adult: their grandfater, who was in his second childhood. ---
**Author:** ![NeonMadman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/58f4c7/32.png) [@NeonMadman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NeonMadman)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2016, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-about-babies/768892/7 "2016-10-18T21:22:16Z")
Sugar and Spike were recently revived as adult private investigators in DC’s \*Legends of Tomorrow \*anthology miniseries (obviously named after the TV series but tangentially related to it at best). [The series will be released soon as a trade paperback.](https://smile.amazon.com/Sugar-Spike-Keith-Giffen/dp/1401264824/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1476825625&sr=8-1&keywords=dc+sugar+and+spike) It wasn’t bad, though, of course, it wasn’t the lighthearted delight that the old series was, but it was fun just the same. ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2016, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-about-babies/768892/8 "2016-10-18T22:34:59Z")
It’s a bit pricey at $60, but [this hardcover volume](http://www.dccomics.com/graphic-novels/the-sugar-and-spike-archives-2011/sugar-and-spike-archives-vol-1) reprints the first ten issues of the original _Sugar and Spike_. ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2016, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-about-babies/768892/9 "2016-10-18T22:37:55Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Sugar and Spike could talk to one adult: their grandfater, who was in his second childhood. Specifcally, _Sugar’s_ great-great-great Grandpa Plumm. Sugar Plumm and Spike Wilson were neighbors, but they weren’t related.