Jungle Book by Harvey Kurtzman (1959).
This collection of four short stories by MAD Magazine creator Harvey Kurtzman includes satires and parodies of Peter Gunn-style tv detective shows, the New York publishing industry, tv westerns, and small town life in the U.S. Deep South, and was an attempt to appeal to an older comics audience in the pocket book paperback format.
The critics: "the biggest 'if' in comics' history: What if it had been a success? [...] one of the artform's most stunning successes, and one of the field's most heartbreaking failures" --Kim Thompson, "The Top 100 English-Language Comics of the Century, no. 26: Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book, 1959". The Comics Journal #210, 1999.
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