 I'm the comic weekly man the jolly comic weekly man and I'm here to read the funnies to you happy boys and honey yes boys and girls it's comic weekly time and here I come right into your house to bring a little fun and happiness right out of the pages of pock the comic weekly straight into your living room your friend the comic weekly man the jolly comic weekly man little miss honey how are you today oh fine how are you getting along in school just wonderfully oh that's wonderful let me test you use the word Mississippi in a sentence oh I think you can do better than that all right my brother eats peas with a knife and he never misses it be the comic weekly very well I will in just a moment but before I do let's listen to this nice man here we go with pock the comic weekly on the bottom of page one that's right hop along Cassidy very well my lady six guns blazing as you along give us music for hop along hop along Cassidy had captured the leader of the outlaw gang a girl named Calico as he was taking her to hand her into the law her henchman trailed hoppy and in trying to get away from them hoppy rode topper out into an old wooden bridge which collapsed hoppy fell into the river below blacking out completely suddenly suddenly there's a rush of water in the back of his neck and hoppy wakes up and here's a voice saying on your feet Cassidy hoppy looks around and finds that instead of the river he's in a shack surrounded by boxes of dynamite a rough-looking man with a gun in his belt are standing in front of him as hoppy wonders how he got there the man tells him you were fish out of soda creek when the old log bridge gave way miss Calico ordered you brought here hoppy gets to his feet and first picture next rule the man leads him outside hoppy exclaims the pyrite diggings the man replies right get busy and help unload that or car hoppy's put to work pushing a car loaded with ore that's brought up from the mine underground man working beside him says softly you're lucky they didn't put you in the mine tunnel crew stranger it's a dust and sulfur fumes that kills them all up quick down there suddenly a guard steps up and knocks the man down with a butt of his gun saying if you can't remember to quit talking here's something that'll teach you at the site of this cruelty hoppy turns quickly last picture top row and knocks the guard down saying and here's your lesson for today hoppy raises his hand to give the man another punch when suddenly first picture bottom row his wrist is caught on the end of a bull whip a long whip 20 feet long at the other end of it hoppy sees a tough looking character who smiles we allow only one mistake like that Cassidy you've used up your quarter hoppy looks at his wrist around which the tip of the bull whip is still wound then looks at the man holding the handle and exclaims not yet bull whip and gives a quick jerk on the whip pulling the man over and the whip is in hoppy's hand the man with a bull whip roars last picture put him on the tunnel gang and keep him there till he drops in his tracks and in a second two guards with rifles are coming at hoppy and so cruelly it certainly was Maya I wonder what's up those two men with rifles aimed at him make things look pretty grim we'll find out more next week now what oh now let's turn over the page and just see what's there all right over the page we go and there's Prince Varian on page three and my goodness what a terrible Robert has been attacking the castle where Prince Varian is yes the castle of sir refook and Prince Valiant has captured black Robert son and then when black Robert broke down the castle wall the refook had tied black Robert son to a state where the wall wasn't knocked down yes he hoped that then black Robert wouldn't attack the castle for fear of killing his son but black Robert did attack anyway and then very beautiful daughter well all of a sudden she came running in the middle of the battle and tied herself with the chain to black Robert son who was tied to the post isn't that romantic yes it certainly is well now let's see what happens to the two young lovers who have defied their fathers and here we go with Prince Valiant in the days of King Arthur heck it break it gray Malkin and Quince music romantic or fair fair Prince first picture the soldiers all stop fighting as they see the beautiful young girl with her arms around the young man tied to the stage on one side stands sir refook father of the girl and on the other stands black Robert father of the boy Prince Valiant steps back from the breach and black Robert looks beyond his son into the face of the man he hates refook glares past his little daughter at his proud enemy the horrid dinner battle dies away as the two leaders falter will they continue to fight then Val's clear voice rings out well shall we continue the fight and sacrifice these two youngsters do your hate and pride he goes on first picture bottom role you two game cocks can't finish this by single combat for your families would only continue to feud for generations to come and then Val unties the girl and the boy from the post saying may I suggest that we leave the matter in the hands of these young people to settle and of course the two young lovers decide that instead of continuing the battle they should have peace so that they can be married and join the kingdoms of black Robert and sir refook and so in the future many a verse was written and many a song was sung to the young woman who chained herself to the stake with her lover so am I that's the wife and a little child of one of the soldiers who was killed in the battle yes it certainly is but too often the wise men aren't listened to and unhappiness to some people awful results but now let's read something more cheerfully let's skip over the page and there's Uncle Reapers and his tales of rare rabbit say the magic words with me hippity hoppity make it a habit to give us music for old brown rabbit uncle Rima says rare porcupine ain't got sense enough to know that rare Fox ain't a critter of his words rare porcupine is coming down the road he tells rare Fox that rare rabbit needs a doctor rare Fox says well I'll use a busy man rare porcupine so get on back to work I'll go get dark crane for bray rabbit so rare porcupine goes about his business rare Fox scoots for home he puts on a costume to make himself look like old dark crane little later rare Fox with a long black coat tall hat long hair glasses in a beak looking something like dark crane is that rare rabbit's house as he mixes the medicine rare rabbit sees rare Fox's tails sticking out underneath the coat and right away rare rabbit knows that this is rare Fox and not dark crane rare Fox says rare rabbit you is guys the Ricky mortis itch just drink a little of this stuff in your troubles will be over and rare rabbit replies okay doc but remember you always drink to your own medicine with me first picture bottom row rare Fox says oh yeah yeah I always drink the same medicine with my patients yeah it's like a toast rare rabbit replied doc would you mind getting a little sugar for mine the rare Fox goes out of the room to get sugar quickly prayer rabbit switches the glasses of medicine rare Fox comes back again and picks up the glass of medicine which he has mixed for prayer rabbit medicine which he intended to kill rare rabbit so we need him and as rare Fox drinks the medicine he suddenly yells and just then in the door comes rare poker finally prayer rabbit tells him are you better running a dark crane for prayer Fox I is all well and Uncle Rima says yep sometimes you can get well just by thinking of folks who is worse open you is yes and rare Fox mixed up some poison that would kill prayer rabbit prayer rabbit just found an excuse to stand him out of the room and then switch the glasses of medicine and rare Fox got a taste of his own medicine now should we see what Dagwit and Blondie are up to oh yes please and here we go with Dagwit and Blondie Ramaphoo Ramaphamsim Sam zombie conjugal music for Dagwit and Blondie Dagwit and Blondie go to bed early because they're both very tired but no sooner are they in bed and they hear shots Dagwit sits up in bed and exclaims hey what's that there's some excitement going on up the street last picture top row he jumps into his pants saying sounds close Blondie says well you were the one who said you wanted to get a good night sleep but Dagwit pays no attention to her just dashes down the stairs puts on his coat dashes out the door saying oh boy I hope I don't miss anything runs out on the sidewalk suddenly a burglar comes dashing down the street right at him followed by 16 cops shooting their guns yelling oh oh last picture the row they run directly at Dagwit who exclaims oh my goodness first picture next to Dagwit starts running down the street so he won't be shot he finds that he's running along beside the burglar on and on they run end up in a lovely hide in one corner the burglar says hey we're cornered now what do we do Dagwit angrily exclaims and what do you get that we stuff they yell so loud the cops hear him and surround them in a second later they're caught last picture the row the cops have brought the burglar and Dagwit down to the police station and Dagwit is asking the captain may I phone my wife please captain first picture bottom row Blondie has answered the phone and Dagwit is saying to her don't ask any questions Blondie just come down and get me out of here and Blondie replies and you were the one who wanted to get to bed early later Dagwit and Blondie come up the stairs Blondie is leading Dagwood by the ear Dagwood looks very sheepish Alexander asks hey what happened to pop and Blondie replies he was out playing cops and robbers at midnight last picture Dagwit and Blondie are in bed again sound asleep and Dagwood is lying there snoring with one foot tied securely to the bed that's one time curiosity got Dagwood into a pickle now read that in just a moment but first here's that nice man again with something interesting to say now here we go again with Puck the comic weekly and on page one of the second section Roy Rogers King of the Cowboys I yep I owe now here we go with Roy and trigger hi yep I owe knuckles hearty is waiting in the old Indian foot to ambush Roy who has trailed him there when knuckles sees that his son Tommy is with Roy he slips away leaving nitro cane and furhead Fenton to deal with Roy as Roy and Tommy stealthily approached the old blockhouse Tommy says he reckoned the fur had a galoo to chase me's in that blockhouse Roy Roy replies I don't know Tommy but his tracks led straight to the fort from the window inside the blockhouse her head Fenton is watching Roy a poach and he whispers all right get ready nitro here they come that row waits behind the open door with a club in his hand and as Roy enters nitro knocks him out Tommy sees Roy knocked out he runs for his horse he's chased by furhead Fenton Tommy leaps in the saddle and last picture top row gallops away come on get going clover first picture bottom row furhead Fenton who had tried to catch the boy goes back into the blockhouse he tells nitro that Tommy got away quickly nitro ties Roy to a chair then furhead nails a board across the window saying you better make sure hardy's kid don't come back and cut loose this board will keep them out then nitro and furhead slip away to join knuckles hardy and blowing up the riverbank so the water can flow on a hardy's ranch a little later third picture bottom row Roy comes to he hears a noise and he sees Tommy squeezing through the window Tommy says I waited until I saw him right off Roy this is tight squeeze Roy replies careful Tommy I heard him saying they're going to blow the riverbank to divert the water and leave the small ranchers high and dry a moment later Roy is untied they run out to their horses last picture they gallop off Tommy shouts hey how you gonna stop them Roy Roy replies I don't know Tommy but if the river busts it seems all the water in the valley will be controlled by one man and I can't let that happen yes Roy's back in action again the next week we'll find out what he does but now let's see what flash Gordon is up to so let's turn over the page go past jungle gym and there on page 3 is flash Gordon this is exciting too when flashing Dale and Queen Suni hidden the dragons cave they found a secret underground room yes Prince Fino a friend of Queen Suni who had escaped from the wizards is secretly manufacturing metals in the caves and this is against the wizard's law and girl who knows that their underground came back with the wizards and the wizards soldiers to try to capture them so quick let's read very well here we go with flash Gordon rega rega dune dunes ask him a task let's have music for heroic flash flash is trapped underground by the wizards army with sheer courage and a few quick firing dart throwers flash routes gorel and the advanced guard invading the cave world flash fights his way to the surface suddenly his metal weapons melt as the wizards raise hit them flash orders grimly fall back men we'll make a stand in the tunnel don't let them pass last picture top row Dale and Queen Suni help flash his men put together crude fireballs flash directs load the catapult when these metal containers are melted by the wizards raise the chemicals will mix and explode first picture bottom row everything happens as flash expects it to when the wizards invade the underground tunnel and when their rays hit the flame bombs explode they drive the procedures back out of range but the wizards rally them and perzo commands keep the rebel surrounded watch your wizards punish those who defy us last picture perzo uses mammoths animals like elephants to haul huge plastic reflectors to focus the metal melting rays against the caves perzo says in a voice of doom the rebels dared to dig forbidden metal or in the underground watch now and you shall see the earth melt and turn their fault into a tomb yes even the earth is supposed to be melted by the rays from that big machine my how will flash ever escape from this well let's hope he thinks of some way to outsmart those wizards oh my I hope so well now I can read Dick's adventures for you if you go over to the last page I certainly will because dick is in the early days of America and the British soldiers are chasing George Washington's army and trying to capture yes and dick had volunteered to blow up a bridge with some other men and one of the men started to slip away and dick chased after him because he thought the man was a traitor and then all of a sudden the man hit him on the head and knocked him out yes well now let's see what happens and dick's adventures say the magic words with me let's have music for adventure this dick first picture dick lying in the bushes slowly comes to his head hurts and he exclaims wow somebody just hit me a terrific wallop where am I a moment later dick remembers he's with general Washington's army moving across New Jersey with the King's Redcoats right on their heels he exclaims hey that militiamen James is a spy he socked me and ran and dick looks up as he hears a hurried rush of feet he sees himself surrounded by soldiers quickly they jerk dick to his feet and march him off first picture next row as dick goes with him he realizes they're British for they carry the Union Jack there's a foreign look about them and they're gabbling in a strange language dick says to himself German and dick begins to talk to them the soldier stop and listen and dick begins in a friendly voice saying now look fellas why are you fighting us why one of them speaks a little English and he says we are Hessians our Duke has hired us out to the English King to fight terrible American rebels you see dick says well listen you being fooled we're fighting for freedom you can have it too dessert come with me to our general you'll be given farm at the prospect of a farm and peaceful living in a free land dick's captors become willing prisoners and follow him across the Delaware into Pennsylvania where Washington is set up an encampment first picture bottom row the American soldiers see a strange sight as dick leads the squad of Hessian soldiers dressed in British clothes into their camp and last picture dick is reporting to general Washington himself saying sir I promise the prisoners to be given farms they told me that a large body of Hessians is holding Trenton and they don't think you'll dare now that it's winter to recross the Delaware and attack them Washington smiles those soldiers to join the Americans it's certainly was who was the Hessians well the Hessians was another name for German soldiers and they were soldiers who would hire out for wars for pay another name for them was mercenaries soldiers who would fight on either side for money oh I see and the English hired these soldiers yes lots of them oh but I hope that they're all going to join judge Washington we'll find out more about that next week now here's Rusty Riley right underneath the adventure oh and then followed square bugs and Captain Clun out by the harbor where square bugs was using the black light like the smugglers dead that's right and then flip Rusty's dog started to bark yes and square bugs heard the dog and now I'm afraid that he's up to find out that Rusty has been spying on him so quick let's read let's find out all right here we go with Rusty Riley gallop and run till the road is dusty give us music for his horse and Rusty as squire bogs here's flip bark he says to Captain Clun you're over the boat in under the pier Clun as somebody snooping around I'll have a look Rusty who's hiding behind a rock over here's squire bogs and says to himself oh golly squire bogs must have heard flip oh he's coming back maybe if we hide behind this rock you won't see us quickly Rusty and flip hide squire bogs moves along the shore investigating he doesn't see anything so he finally says yes I must be getting jittery it doesn't seem to be anybody around here just then last picture the roll flip barks again and squire bog says well now I guess I wasn't so wrong after all behind that rock a moment later first picture bottom roll squire bogs comes toward the sound of flip bark and discovers Rusty squire bogs he slams oh so it's you huh well now what are you hiding for come out boy he's only old squire bogs Rusty says what do you want well Captain Clun and I are engaged in a peculiar kind of night fishing come along boy I'll show you night fishing I see well sure I'd like to watch but but but I ought to go home takes to me to go to bed squire bogs replies no fiddlesticks boy he wouldn't mind your being with me come along we're fishing from that old schooner hawk squire bogs takes Rusty and flip aboard the old schooner hawk and tells them to go below last picture Captain Clun joined squire bogs on deck squire bogs whispers it's that kid Rusty I told him to go below and wait help me slide the hatch cover on then we can keep him safe until we stole the stuff Captain Clun replies I squire that was real quick thinking that's exactly what they've done well what are they going to do to them they're going to try to finish up their dirty work so that Rusty won't see it yes but what if Rusty does find out what's going on what's going to happen then well that's something that'll have to wait until next week now that's all the time I have but before I go here's that fellow with some more interesting information well honey and all your boys and girls I've got to go now okay that's a date and a date with all your boys and girls be sure to meet me with our little friend miss honey next week when I read Puck the comic weekly for I'm the comic weekly man the jolly comic weekly man I'll be back to read the funnies to you happy boys and honey don't forget boys and girls see you all next week your friend the comic weekly man the jolly comic weekly man