Steve Elonka began chronicling the exploits of Marmaduke Surfaceblow-a six-foot-four marine engineer with a steel brush mustache and a foghorn voice-in POWER in 1948, when he raised the wooden mast of the SSAsia Sun with the help of two cobras and a case of Sandpaper Gin. Marmy's simple solutions to seemingly intractable plant problems remain timeless. This Classic Marmaduke story, originally published in 1958, illustrates that big problems often have simple, but ingenious, solutions.