Red Mike hunts the scissor boy

Detail from title page, Charlie Yup and His Snip-Snap Boys, Flora’s third children’s book, 1959. That’s Charlie, snipping away at right; the villain with the lasso is Red Mike.

In the book, Red Mike is … red. However, as with many illustrated books of the period, color pages alternated with black and white to make printing more economical. A number of Flora’s kiddie books reflect this trend.