*DC: Normally, our ‘Quirky Corner’ features items that are off-the-wall or oddball, but this time, we talk about a series that’s truly unique: Sugar and  Spike! Created in 1956 by Sheldon Mayer after observing his own infant children babbling in what appeared to be a secret language, he came up with the idea of neighbouring kids – Sugar Plumm and Cecil ‘Spike’ Wilson – who were united in a world of incomprehensible grown-ups, and whose misunderstandings and misadventures carried through 98 issues of their own series. This run of additions goes from 1959’s #26 to the very final issue in 1971, and probably gives us the best selection of Sugar and Spike in the UK – given that the series was barely distributed here, few copies are in circulation on these shores. For something that’s heartwarming, funny and truly unique, they’re hard to beat.