 I'm the comic weekly man, the jolly comic weekly man. And I'm here to read the funnies to you happy boys and honnies. 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 Puck the Comic Weekly, straight into your living room, your friend, the comic weekly man, the jolly comic weekly man. Yes, honey, how are you today? Oh, I'm just... Oh, that's marvelous. Yes, the snow is two feet deep and I've been playing Fox and the Geese. I just love to play Fox and the Geese. So do I. I like the winter. You can make up such nice things out of your head with the snow. Yes, I made an interesting thing out of my head one time in the winter. What? An icicle on the end of my nose. Oh, that's funny. Now please read me the funnies. Puck the Comic Weekly? Yes. Very well, I will in just a moment. But before I do, let's listen to this nice man. Now here we go with Puck the Comic Weekly. And on the first page... Oh, Hop along Cassidy. And we'll read Hop along Cassidy right now. Magic words for the music, please. Very well, my lady. Six guns blazing as your thunder's along. Give us music for Hop along. Hoppy has been captured by the outlaw gang headed by a girl named Calico. The gang has been operating a mine. And Hoppy has been put to work underground in the mine. As Hoppy works, he looks up, and he sees Calico standing on the other side of the little dump car. Hoppy says, Well, I figured you'd be showing up sooner or later Calico. Calico tells him that she can use a man like him and she offers him a place in her organization. First picture next row, she tells him to write a farewell letter to his bar 20 friends, telling them that he won't be back. She tells Hoppy she can't risk having a search party show up looking for him. Hoppy realizes that this might be one way about smarting Calico. So he tells her, Calico, you've just taken on a new hand. Third picture second row, as they approach the shack where her office is, Hoppy tells Calico, I'll tell the bar 20 bunch and I'm quitting the ranch and going into the mining business somewhere. Calico asks him how he's going to make sure that they believe him. Last picture of the row, Hoppy picks up a handful of pyrite dust from the desk, which is what they've been mining and he says, I'll enclose a sample of pyrite dust as proof. Second picture bottom row, Hoppy hands Calico a letter and closing the pyrite dust and signed in his hand. Calico thanks him and then smiles coldly saying that at last she has him in her power that no one will come here looking for him now. Hoppy asks, what do you mean? Calico's henchman holds a gun on him, last picture saying, you just rich your own death warrant. And Calico says, take him away, bullwhip. I have an important letter to mail. To get Hoppy to write that letter by a trick like that. Yes, you just can't trust thieves. No, now will they kill Hoppy? Well, it looks like they're going to try to. Oh, and there's so many people around that mine, I don't know how Hoppy's going to escape from them. Well, next week we'll find out about that. Now what? Well, now could we please read Prince Valiant? Certainly, let's turn over the page. And there on page three is Prince Valiant. Oh, and last week he was so romantic. Indeed it was because Black Robert and Sir Reef Hook were at war with each other. And Sir Reef Hook had captured Black Robert's son and tied him to a stake right inside of the enemy. Yes, he'd hoped that Black Robert would surrender when he saw that his son was captured. But instead he attacked it and then Sir Reef Hook's beautiful daughter chained herself to the stake too and she was in love with Adrian, that's Black Robert's son. And then the battle stopped and Val cut the two lovers loose from the stake. And now please read so we can see what happens next. Very well, here we go with Prince Valiant and the days of King Arthur. Hecate, Brecate, Grey Mulk and Quince music romantic for a fair, fair prince. Prince Valiant releases the two lovers and stands back a satisfied smile on his face. Surely he thinks their romantic plight will stop the war. My last picture top row, slowly his expression changes as an angry murmur rises to a roar. It seems that no one save he and the two lovers once peace. Val sees the grim look on Black Robert's face first picture next row. He's broken through the wall of Sir Reef's castle and Black Robert thinks that the long dispute should end in victory for him. Val quickly looks at Sir Reef and he sees the grim look on Sir Reef's face also. Sir Reef is thinking that if the promised help arrives this day and attacks his enemy in the rear, that Sir Reef can win and he will be master of all the lands there about. Then Val looks at the army of fighting men, last picture of the row. The soldiers on each other's side, not knowing the true state of affairs, are confident of victory and they think only of the rich plunder that they can all go home with, spoils of the battle. Val has to think fast. He has a quest to complete and except for his love of a good fight he has no interest in this quarrel. In the first picture of autumn row he shouts, Hold! The power of Rome is gone and the barbarians are sweeping all Europe. So deed the disputed lands to your children, bade to wed and unite your two houses. Three strongholds may well carry you through the trouble times to come. A long silence follows his words and ends in the rattle of swords returning to their scabbards. As Sir Reef and Black Robert see the wisdom of Val's words they decide to agree on peace and the fighting is over. That's right, Val has shown them that a huge army of cruel men are going to attack their land soon and that Black Robert and Sir Reef will be wiser to be friends and stick together and defend their land. Oh, I'm glad Val settled things so nicely. I like people to have peace and live happily ever after, especially when they're in love. So do I. Now? Certainly will. Let's go over the page past page four. Pass the Lone Ranger on page five, turn over that page and there on page seven is Flash Gordon. I've been so worried because that mean old wizard is going to attack Flash and Dale and Queen Sunni there in the cave. Yes, they're in the cave where Prince Fina and his men have been manufacturing metal weapons which is against the wizard's law and the wizard wants to destroy Flash and Dale and Sunni so that he can be the ruler of the planet. And he's had some special machine brought up that's supposed to melt the earth even. Yes, so let's read and find out if that really happens. So here we go with Flash Gordon. Raga-raga-doon-doons, ask him a task. Let's have music for heroic flash. The wizard Curzo has brought up the huge projector and aimed it at the earth in front of the dragon's cave where Flash and Dale are. Then he turns on the rays, aiming them at the earth in front of the cave. The rays melt the metal in the mines causing violent earthquakes. Goro pleads, Stop! You'll bury Queen Sunni! But Curzo dooms her along with Flash and Dale. Let the earth swallow them all! Meanwhile, last picture top row. Dale and Flash. Dale and Flash see the entrance of the cave crumbling in upon them. Dale is sure they're going to be buried alive. But Flash leads the way deeper into the smuggler's caverns. He warns. The exit tunnel is caved in. We must find another way out before the ray crushes us all. First picture bottom row. The caves end at an underground river that ran the smuggler's power plant. Flash admits. We don't know where it goes. But we'll find out. Our on-chance is to follow the river away from the wizard's ray. Dale and Sunni work with the men throwing together crude rafts, racks of shutters and the cavern walls. Warned that time is running short. In a short time Flash and the rest are on their rafts. Last picture seeking to escape by the way of the underground river. And with a few salvaged tools and weapons the little fleet drifts deeper into the underworld. Just as the cavern collapses behind them. It certainly was. Maybe if the river is long enough and they can travel fast enough they can come out far from where the wizards are. Yes and good. Well let's hope so. And we'll find out next week in the River of Peril. And now it's time for... Oh I hope so. Well you hope right because it is. So pick up the first page or the second section of Puck the Comic Weekly and here we go with Dagwood and Blondie. Ram-a-foo, Ram-a-fum, Zim, Zim, Zombie conjure me music for Dagwood and Blondie. Dagwood has borrowed a neighbor's ladder to repair his radio aerial on the top of his house. And he's returning the ladder saying Well thanks for the use of your ladder Mr. Brump. I repaired my aerial. Mr. Brump replies Well you're welcome Dagwood. So Dagwood walks back home. Just as he's about to go into the house Blondie looks up on the roof and exclaims Dagwood, you left Daisy up on the roof. Dagwood looks up and sure enough sees their dog Daisy sitting on the top of the roof looking quite nervous. Dagwood dashes back to Mr. Brump and last picture top row asks him Oh Mr. Brump may I borrow your ladder again? Mr. Brump replies Well I just loaned it to Mr. Swably. The storm wrecked his aerial too. So Dagwood dashes over to Mr. Swably's house and first picture next row seeing Mr. Swably's up on the roof says Well I'll just borrow it for a moment while he's working on his aerial. So Dagwood takes the ladder and walks off with it. At this moment Mr. Swably who is through working on his aerial begins to crawl backwards down the roof on his hands and knees without looking where he's going to where he's sure the ladder is. When he gets to the edge of the roof suddenly he's fallen from the roof to the ground. A moment later Dagwood has put the ladder against his house and he's climbed up to the roof. All of a sudden last picture of the row he feels the ladder pulled away from the house and finds himself in the air with nothing to hang on to. He looks down and sees Swably in streaks Hey quit pushing that ladder Mr. Swably snarls Well you took it from under me and drops the ladder sending Dagwood head first to the ground Mr. Swably stands there shrieking with laughter Dagwood leaps to his feet and at a second Swably and Dagwood are swapping bumps punches and kicks snarling at each other like two dogs Mr. Brump comes running and hollers Hey quit, quit, quit, quit fighting over my ladder and he picks up the ladder last picture of the row is the two men stop fighting and he walks off with it saying Just for acting like hoodlums I won't let either of you use it and Dagwood peevishly calls after him Oh, keep your old ladder and when he sees it Mr. Brump is really carrying the ladder off Dagwood leaps to his feet first picture bottom row shakes his fist at Mr. Brump and hollers Keep it, keep it I wouldn't borrow it again for a million dollars Keep your old ladder and then he starts to go into the house when Blondie points to Daisy who is tired of waiting on top of the roof and Blondie says You forgot about Daisy She's still up on the roof and Dagwood exclaims Oh my goodness and a moment later there is a knock on Mr. Brump's door When Mr. Brump opens the door he finds Dagwood standing there and Dagwood sweetly says Oh Mr. Brump may I borrow your ladder Isn't that funny when Dagwood told Mr. Brump he wouldn't dollars and then this He certainly looks silly Yes, but look at Mr. Brump Listen to him, he's mad Very well, let's get down to where Roy Rogers is And here he is And I'll 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 the bottom of the first page of the second section Roy Rogers Yes, Roy Rogers Today is the day we ought to run into something really exciting because Knuckles Hardy and Furhead Fenton and Knight Rokane have gone off to set the explosion and it'll blow up the river banks or the water will run onto the Box H Ranch which is owned by Knuckles Hardy And that's against the law, isn't it? Yes, because it means that the other ranchers won't have water on their land He's doing a bad mean selfish thing Yes, and now Tommy, who is Knuckles Hardy's son and Roy are on their way to see if they can prevent the big explosion Yes, and the thing that makes it so exciting is that Tommy doesn't know that it's his father that they're asking No, so now let's read and see what happens with Roy Rogers, King of the Cowboys Ah, yip, I owe Now here we go with Roy and Trigger Ah, yip, I owe Roy and Tommy gallop along the trail leading to the river Tommy says Hey, this trail brings us out of the top of the falls, Roy Roy replies Good! That's a logical place to blow the river and divert it from its natural bed Meanwhile, at the falls of Rapid River Knuckles, Nitro and Furhead are coming out of a cave in the river bank Nitro says On the timer's set In five minutes the explosives in the cave will blow the river banks sky high The three men hurriedly walk away from the cave to reach a safe spot before the explosion occurs Knuckles hardy says Well, I hired you for this job, Nitro Cain to better come off right I'll control the whole valley and they'll all come to me for water, Blastom Last picture top row is to reach a spot above the cave Nitro says Three more minutes and boom Meanwhile at this moment Roy and Tommy stop at a point above the cave Tommy says Is the cave down on that ledge, Roy? I used to play in it Roy replies Well, my hunch is that they'll plant the dynamite in there if they want to divert the river in a big way So they head for the cave to look around Unaware that the explosion is almost ready to go off Suddenly Tommy slips Almost falls over the cliff into the river Calling Help Roy, my foot's slipping At this moment Furhead fenton some distance away exclaims Hey, look, it's Rogers and your kid, Mr. Hardy The blower boy slipped to the ledge Knuckles replies in horror He'll be blowing up for the river Cain, do something to stop it, quick Nitro says When it's too late now Knuckles, she's due to blow up Knuckles replies Let go, I've got to help my boy up there Tommy, look out, dynamite in the cave This is a tense moment Well, my, what can Roy possibly do? He's right on top of the explosion Well, let's hope that Knuckles Hardy calls to Roy and tells him where the explosion is so Roy can disconnect the fuses Well, I can wait and can hardly wait to find out Well, I'm afraid you'll have to But in the meantime, let's go over the page past Jungle Jim across to page three Well, there is Barney Google and under that is Uncle Remus Oh, of course you're not interested in that Oh, I am, so you know I am I just love Brer Rabbit Oh, well, pardon me, let's stop right here then and I'll read Uncle Remus and his tales of Brer Rabbit Say the magic words with me Hippity hoppity, make it a habit to give us music for old Brer Rabbit Uncle Remus says In the meantime, Brer Bar got to bragging he was the most powerful critter in the whole county That is, to your Brer Rabbit showed him different Brer Rabbit and Brer Coon are strolling through the woods one day When they see Brer Bear and Brer Buzzard sitting around a campfire warming a pan of soup, talking They hear Brer Bear say Yes, sir, Brer Buzzard dies the strongest man in the whole community Brer Buzzard answers Yeah, you sure is a big hunk of muscle, Brer Bar And Brer Rabbit says Uh-oh, something is coming for you And then Brer Rabbit hears Brer Buzzard ask Can you up, old man, Bobcat? Brer Bar replies Duh, shucks, I can whip anybody Brer Rabbit has a bright idea and he says to his companion Hey, come on, Brer Coon I know somebody who can't wup and off they skitter A little later, Brer Bear and Brer Buzzard are eating their soup around the campfire Brer Bear is still bragging and he says Duh, I ain't a skitter any quitter in all these parts Oh, I can wup more Brer Buzzard asks Can you up more Brer Moose? And Brer Bear replies last picture top row Duh, I can even wup Brer Moose And all of a sudden, out of the bushes behind his head a moose head appears and the moose gives Brer Bear a good bite on the head Duh! Brer Buzzard leaps to his feet trembling with fear saying Yeah, he's getting out of here and Brer Bear looks over his shoulder and sees Brer Moose's head ferociously staring at him and down the road Brer Bear and Brer Buzzard scoot and Brer Bear calls back Duh, I was only foolin' Brer Moose Duh! A second later, Brer Rabbit pops his head through the bushes and giggles as he sees Brer Bear run away Hey, bless my eyeballs and Brer Coon pops through the bushes and says Well, oh, Brer Moose sure showed him And last picture, Brer Rabbit and Brer Coon are carrying a moose head mounted on a plaque heading back for home and Brer Coon says Yeah, we better get this moose head back on the cabin wall quick and Brer Rabbit giggles Yeah, what you suppose will happen if Brer Bear ever meets the real Brer Moose and Uncle Rima says Little head, keen, heap of times I'll do a big body Yes, they took ahead of a moose that was mounted on the plaque off the cabin wall sneaked around the bushes where Brer Rabbit was sitting Yes, Brer Rabbit certainly knows cute tricks Yes, he certainly does Well, now let's go over to the last page and see what new development has taken place with Dick who was with George Washington in the early days of America Oh, and a verse captured by the Hessian German soldiers Yes, you really mean the Hessian soldiers who were on the English side Yes, and they captured Dick and then Dick told them that George Washington would give them farms if they would join on their side and they did I was so proud of Dick when he walked into George Washington's camp with those soldiers So was I and so was George Washington because George Washington needs soldiers Oh, please, let's read and see what will happen next Very well, here we go with Dick's adventures and say the magic words with me Riggity park, gizak, gizik Let's have music for adventure to stick To make certain that the Hessian soldiers are not up to any trickery Washington has put them under guard one of the captured Hessian stammer And we were told the Americans are cowards that they won't fight are ready to surrender Dick glances back to see Washington smiling Dick walks off to the outskirts of the camp and sees a group of the American soldiers with packs on their backs He greets them Oh, hi, fellas, I got great news Washington's not beat by a long shot He... Hey, where are you all going? The men stop solemnly in first picture next row from a dozen men Dick gets the same story They've had enough soldiering They're heading home They're going to desert One soldier holds up his foot and shows Dick stockings and shoes that are full of holes and exclaims Hey, look at these shoes No new ones and no fool Another soldier exclaims Everybody knows it, the war's lost And still another exclaims And we only enlisted for six months and tarmed up Dick looks at him last picture of the row and exclaims Hey, wait, listen to me You can't do this to the... to the people are going to be Americans after you We're going to win, I know it Dick walks back to the camp slowly and sadly He comes by the stockade where Washington has locked up the Hessian soldiers One of the soldiers sticks his head out first picture bottom row exclaiming Oh, brave men in your American army those who are left, huh? The British tell us right that Washington soon surrender, yeah? Dick exclaims angrily You're wrong Then he walks over to the edge of the encampment last picture sadly leans against a tree and says to himself Gosh, our new things were tough in 1776 but I never figured they were this tough Then Dick is suddenly aware that Washington is standing beside him Those soldiers wanting to go home Yes, the hard thing about being a soldier is waiting for things to happen It takes a lot of patience to train and to drill especially when you don't have good food and warm clothes But maybe Washington can encourage the soldiers and then maybe they just won't go home Well, maybe he'll have some plan Well, we'll find out about it next week Yes, I hope so Yes, now look underneath Dick's adventures Here's Rusty Raleigh Oh, and this is becoming very mysterious because Rusty had trailed square bugs and Captain Clune at night and he discovered that they were using the black light The same kind of black light the smugglers were using And then flip bark and square bugs found Rusty and he's taken him on board an old ship and he's locked him down below while he and Captain Clune do something very mysterious And I'm anxious to find out what it is that they're doing Well, let's find out right now So here we go with Rusty Raleigh Gallop and run till the road is dusty Give us music for his horse and Rusty On the warp, Captain Clune and square bugs quickly worked storing away some mysterious cylinders which have been attached to the lobster pots markers by the smugglers and which they pulled out of the water Meanwhile, second picture below the deck inside the old schooner Hulk Rusty is looking out a window and he says Golly, square bugs told me to watch from this window but I don't see anything There's nobody down there Rusty decides to try to get out so he climbs up to the hatch and he tries to open the hatch which is a door to the deck and he exclaims Gee, I can't budge this hatch cover Golly, they've locked me in Meanwhile, at Mr. Miles Boathouse Mr. Kilgore, the government treasury agent a man who is the same as a detective has joined Tex at the spot where Rusty is supposed to have gone As they walk along the shore trying to trail Rusty, Tex is saying Well, I can't figure where the lad could have gone, Mr. Kilgore He's not out on the water because none of our boats is missing Mr. Kilgore replies thoughtfully Well, then there's only one way he could have gone, Tex along the path that skirts the shore So last picture, top row they head off in the same direction as Rusty had gone First picture, bottom row, Kilgore says And don't you think you may have just gone off on a little lock without telling your Tex? Tex replies No, that ain't like your lad, Mr. Kilgore Not after I told Patty and him to go to their room At this moment Rusty who is looking out the portal schooner Hulk suddenly says to flip My golly, there's a rope hanging down from the deck I believe I can reach it He reaches out and gets the rope pulls it in through the porthole and then says to flip I got it! Now to fix a sling for you, Flip I'll loop under your front legs and he ties the rope around Flip Then lips flip out of the porthole and slowly lets him down to the ground below saying There you are, Flip Now wiggle loose like I taught you And last picture, Rusty climbs out of the porthole and curious to find out what Captain Clune and Squire Boggs are up to says Well now that Flip is safe I think I'll try to climb to the deck Yes, because it's Squire Boggs and Captain Clune find out that Rusty discovers that they're in with the smugglers You never know what they might do I certainly hope that Tex and Mr. Kilgore get there soon We'll find out about that next week Now that's all the time I have But before I go I've got some more interesting information Funny and all you boys and girls, I gotta go now All right, Mr. Comic Weekly Man But I'll be waiting for you next week Okay, that's a date And a date with all you 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 honeys Don't forget boys and girls See you all next week Your friend the Comic Weekly Man The jolly Comic Weekly Man