Number 1522: “And now, the Beatles!”

Incredible. It is fifty years ago today, Sunday, February 9, 1964, that my brother and I watched the American television debut of the Beatles. It seems incredible that it has been a half century, because unlike my brother and me the music has never grown old.

To commemorate that occasion I'm showing 20 pages from the Dell Giant, The Beatles, which came out during that giddy initial period of Beatlemania. The Beatles story is somewhat cleaned up (perfect for Joe Sinnott’s drawing), but yeah, yeah, yeah,  it is what we were being told about the group when the Beatles first came to the United States.