Back in the '50s I was a great fan of the Mad gang: Harvey Kurtzman, Will Elder, Jack Davis, Wallace Wood, et al. I collected all the Mad comics and mags and later moved on with them to Humbug, Help, Trump, Little Annie Fanny, Jungle Book  . . . anything that had their stamp on it. 

It was a thrill then in 1958 that I discovered SKY MASTERS by Jack Kirby and Wally Wood. I was such a packrat that even though we didn't subscribe to the daily newspaper that featured the strip, I made regular trips to the local "nuisance grounds" (town garbage dump) and tore out the daily MASTERS strips, as well as Tarzan, Li'l Abner, Peanuts, Russ Heath and a few more. I carefully trimmed these strips and stored them in metal containers. 

My collection was by no means complete -- some of the papers were mutilated or hadn't even made it to the dump, but I salvaged enough of the strips to partially whet my appetite for SF and Wood. The strips that survived in my eclectic collection should provide enough of an overview to convince ERBzine readers that my enthusiasm was justified.