 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 have popped the comic weekly straight into your living room your friend the comic weekly man the jolly comic weekly man hello a little miss honey how are you today I'm fine and I have another surprise for you oh that's wonderful what is it two more of my friends told me I should tell you that you're their favorite story teller so now will you read the funnies today especially so that I can tell them that I told you what they told me to tell you why certainly well what are their names Michael and Christopher well then we'll read the funnies today for Michael and Christopher and all of their friends fine now I can tell them I told you what they told me to tell you to read the funny pock the comic weekly very well I will in just a moment but before I do let's listen to this nice man now here we go with pock the comic weekly and on the first page hop along Cassidy magic words for the music please very well my lady six guns blazing as he thunders along give us music for hop along slow thought hoppy and his pals would lose their way in the rock maze and die there but fortunately topper missed hoppy and Nate hoppy followed the sound of toppers winning and found their way out hoppy and his pals pick up sloth's trail first picture second row hoppy says his mounts hoof prints with a dented shoe are still with us headed straight toward buckskin meanwhile slow it has been sent to Dr. Wiley by brand the head of the three crooks that had found him in the rock maze first picture third row he enters the doctor's office doctor says well what can I do for you strange slope replies I had little shooting accident out of the rock maze brand sent me the doctor looks at slow it's arm last picture third row saying well you're fortunate brand doesn't approve of everybody the freshman ever look at that arm after that if you're interested maybe I can put you next to some easy spending money slow it looks at the doctor and says slyly you can do better than that doc I don't say me what kind of game you're running here I suppose you cut me in on it 50 50 doctor answers first picture fourth row why you two bit tin horn who do you think you are don't remember me you were calling yourself dr. worth when they ran you out of st. Joe then there was that phony mail order prescription racket you worked in Denver the doctor pours hot water into a basin saying slow didn't recognize you with those without those chin whiskers slow answers last picture fifth row you seem to have last time to some easy pickings I wouldn't want to ruin it are we agreed in a partnership the doctor answers sure slow sure I only hope you weren't slow replies don't worry the gluten named hop along Cassidy and to his parks try that a brand and his boys took care of at this moment underneath the very window where slowton doc Wally are talking hoppy in his pals last picture are riding down the street standing in the window right above him I hope the slow doesn't see hoppy so do I if he did that would spoil any chance of hoppy's catching slope by surprise later we'll find out more about that next week we certainly will now let's turn over the page and let's see if Prince value is on page three all right over we go was successful on his mission yes he was the Pope has agreed to send missionaries to Val's father and bring word of Christianity to the land of fool and then Val got that young boy left behind was dying and Val left his friends to arrange to bring the missionaries and rode on by himself to see his young friend are I want to very well here we go with Prince valiant in the days of King Arthur heck at break it grim hulking and quince music romantic for a fair fair prince Prince valiant rides into Torino and slides stiffly from his spent horse at the convent door on the long journey he had time to realize how much he loves his young squire and he hopes he has arrived in time as he goes in the door the doctor gives a tragic report young off for his agony like a warrior despite his tender years but now he's dying for he has no will to live Val walks into the room where our fears last picture top roll by a sunny window our flies white faced still as death one foot is still swayed and bandages and the other with a shock Val sees first picture next row there's no other foot he sits down and takes the lads hand a bright smile lights off spales face for an instant and then drains away and then he speaks bitterly last picture second row I aim too high I was to be sir off Jeffery night of the roundtable a great warrior all my life I've dreamed of vain dream of being a champion and then in serving my lady Alitas or night errant and he laughs cynically first picture bottom roll as his head falls back on the pillow whoever heard of a one-legged warrior Val answers coldly I have our flukes up sharply he'd expected simply from his generous warm hearted chief he hears Val say last picture but I've never heard of a great warrior quitting the field when the fights to be one of Val's being this way to make our stop feeling sorry for himself because if off doesn't feel sorry for himself then he'll think of all the things he can still do in life oh then he'll work harder to do those things that's exactly what Val hopes will happen but Val still loves and he really does feel sorry doesn't oh I'm sure that Val's heart so almost breaking over our son fortunate situation and he's doing this really to do our for kindness and to help him my I hope that I understand that I'm sure he will well now what do you say we read Donald Duck oh I just love Donald Duck very well then let's turn over the page go past jungle gym turn over another page and there in the middle of page 7 is Donald Duck or good for a chuckle say the magic words with me squeegee jump squeegee jump squarely chicken track let's have music today Donald has decided to go fox hunting you know hunters chase foxes on a horse and Donald is all dressed up in hunting clothes and he says proudly I'll show him how to catch a fox Donald's nephew Dewey is holding his horse and as Donald prepares to climb on Dewey says now don't fall off and get right back to Donald and Donald replies not me son I'm an expert and Donald climbs in the saddle Dewey says I still think you'll fall off at this moment the fox has turned loose and the others gallop off Donald exclaims and away he gallops his horse approaches a high fence up in the air he goes higher higher well don't stay there come on down Donald closes his eyes and down the horse comes and over the fence he goes last picture top row and Donald is thrown forward in the horse's neck and almost falls off he hangs on to the horse's mane first picture next row as the horse thunders after the box Donald sees the box run into a hollow log quickly he comes to a halt Donald leaps off the horse and runs for the hollow log saying Donald sticks his hand in the hollow log to grab the fox when all of a sudden and last picture Donald is home sitting in a chair his hand bandaged up and he says patiently to Dewey and Dewey answers yes and Donald won't tell Dewey that he was stupid enough to stick his hand in the hollow log where the fox could fight it so do I and now it's time for Dagwit and Blondie yes yes indeed and here they are in the first page of the second section and here we go with Dagwit and Blondie I'm a fool I'm a fumsim Sam zombie conjure me music for Dagwit and Blondie everybody's busy working down at the office when all of a sudden mr. jithers door opens and he roars they'll bumpster they're coming to my office at once and then mr. jithers slams his door everyone looks very sad you can hear a pin drop whoops wrong pin one of the men says who the bosses in a rage and other says yeah he sounds like a maniac Dagwit very timidly walks toward mr. jithers office he goes in closes the door when suddenly there's a terrific fight everybody in the office is terrified and one of the men says sadly suddenly everything is quiet again first picture next row mr. jithers is standing over Dagwit with a broken ball bat in his hands and Dagwit lies on the floor covered with bruises mr. jithers snarls did you put this note on my desk asking for a raise Dagwood replies yes sir mr. jithers leaps at him again as they both pause for breath last picture second row Dagwood answers $10 a week mr. jithers greets his hand dollars and leaps to Dagwit again first picture next row it's robbery suddenly there's an extra loud crash one of the men outside the office yells hey quick somebody run to the first aid room get a stretcher for Dagwood the male boy runs for stretcher while back inside the room mr. jithers last picture the row smashes a water cooler over Dagwit's head and then first picture bottom row mr. jithers picks Dagwood up and bumps his head on the desk and then mr. jithers all worn out from his struggles collapses on Dagwit who collapses to the floor and mr. jithers says okay Dagwood I'll tell the cashier to increase your salary $10 a week starting today and Dagwood looking like a mop rag says weekly thank you boss last picture the office employees picked Dagwood up from the ruined office lay him on a stretcher and carry him out and Dagwood gives a crooked smile and says weekly he's a sweet old guy after you learn to understand him fighting like that just because he has to give Dagwood a raise in pain I'm sure this could only happen in the funny papers but I'm sure also that that's the way some people feel about you having to give a raise yes oh here's Roy Rogers blow Dagwood and Blondie read that please 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 page one of the second section bottom of the page Roy Rogers king of the cowboy magic words for the music please very well my lady a yep I owe now here we go with Roy and trigger a yep I owe Stogie Grimes riding trigger Roy's horse is closing in on the spot where Roy is hiding suddenly Roy whistles and trigger Bucks Grimes off Roy runs for Grimes who pulls his gun the girl while would have doubt sees what's happening and throws a rock knocking the gun out of Trogie's hand Roy hollers nice going Wildwood and gives Stogie Grimes a punch in the draw saying now you and glib Mason can tell the sheriff how you plan to rustle the cattle Mason bought for the raw hide ranchers with their money later last picture top row in raw hide Roy and his friend doleful Hawkins and Wildwood are bringing Grimes and Mason into the sheriff ahead of the herd of cattle which blackjack has led over the mountain safely Roy says well there's a sheriff's office I'll deliver Mason and Stogie while you deliver the herd first picture bottom row the townspeople see doleful Hawkins at the head of the herd and one of the men shouts Hawkins with a fresh rain stock there's a big celebration later in the day and the mayor of the town after making a speech is giving doleful a key to the city and he says and doleful Hawkins and doleful who seems to find something wrong with everything in life answers thanks mayor but it won't open nothing will it I'll probably drop it on my foot and bust a toe later the celebration over Roy's preparing to leave the sheriff is saying to him well I'll take care of Mason and Grimes Rogers hey that Palomino looks familiar saw one just like him yesterday even had the same markings a curious look comes in Roy's eyes and he says why there's not another Palomino with these markings except trigger junior and he's supposed to be at the double our bar ranch yeah let's go boy and he leaves on trigger heading out of town the sheriff calls a strange home ray let him through town seemed to the hurry I think that's what Roy's worried about and that's why he's riding off in such a hurry there's never a moment's rest for Roy the minute he's turned one crack over the sheriff there's something else he has to do yes it seems that way well maybe next week we'll begin a new adventure that'll center around trigger junior that'll be wonderful fine well now let's go over the page and remember he's on the moon and last week he and Dale and professor bright had found an entrance to an underground town yes but they were seen by rock a man from earth who is apparently the leader of the Beetleman and yes and and you remember rocks all flies through a special kind of machine which he had he could see anything through it and then as flashed near his chamber he fired the whip tentacles a strange kind of weapon that sails swiftly through the air and tangled Dale and professor bright up in a lot of strings so that they couldn't see what happens very well here we go with flash Gordon rega rega dune dune saskum attach let's have music for heroic flash deep under the moon surface flash finds his mysterious foe is a human hampered by the whip tentacles that have entangled him flash fires at the villainous rock but misses and flash charges toward rock and his enemy retaliates by shooting a cloud of numbing brain gas holding his breath flash flies to fire his ray gun but the gas fills his eyes and ears making him feel strangely weak and dizzy last picture top row choking from the accurate fumes flash tears off his space suit in an agonized attempt to breathe rack brings evil Ian says now you pay the penalty for following me from the doom first picture bottom row while flash is struggling for air a group of wax beetle men enter the fray dazed by the gas flash can only put up a feeble resistance as the beetle men bind him and deal with spun glass ropes then last picture flash Dale and professor bright are lined up against the cavern wall and given an impromptu trial rock acts as prosecutor he harangues I came from earth to make you beetle men powerful these strangers wrecked our moon gun they want to conquer your planet flash tries to reply but the beetle men shout him down that verdict is unanimous and instead of that those tentacles that were wrapped around flash his arms spoiled his aim and now flash is in rocks power and all the beetle men want flash to be destroyed well does that mean that they'll be killed that's something we'll find out next week why certainly won't miss this but I hope I shall find some way of fooling them off so do I now now it's time for Dix adventures isn't it it certainly is so let's go past buzz Sawyer the lone ranger the phantom to the last page and Dix adventures something very mysterious is happening because dick is there at West Point and that's a famous American fork in the early days of America yes in general Benedict Arnold is the commander there and Arnold had told dick there was to be an exchange of English and American prisoners of war and had sent dick to wait at the river's edge for an Englishman major Andre who was to represent the English but you said that usually this is done in the daytime under a special kind of a flag but this is all being done very mysteriously at night and dick thinks that there's something wrong about all this yes there is well yes we don't see what there really is very well here we go with Dix adventures say the magic words with me rickety pack is that a dick let's have music for this dick mystery and something more disturbing surrounds the secretive midnight arrival of a British officer named Major Andre outside the closely guarded ramparts of West Point uneasily dick reports to the American commandant general Benedict Arnold dick tells the general that Major Andre is waiting for him outside the fort showing little surprise the general accompanies dick to a thickly wooded section on the banks of the Hudson where the enemy officer waits dick sees the two general shake hands then he walks a short distance off to stand guard over them while the two talk last picture of the row for an hour in darkness the two men converse cautiously while dick obeying orders stands guard just out of earshot yet first picture next row he catches a glimpse of papers being passed from general Arnold to major Andre and sees them being stuffed into the British officer's boot then general Arnold calls dick over saying sergeant you will escort major Andre back to the place where he can reboard the ship he is not to be stopped by any of our men as dick leads major Andre back to the edge of the river he's thinking about general Arnold it told him and major Andre has come to arrange for the exchange of colonial and British prisoners of war but dick wonders why all the secrecy just as they reach the river's edge last picture the row they hear it's American cannon atop the ramparts of West Point which have opened thunderous fire the British loop awaiting major Andre's return has been spotted at the door and as they watched the shots striking the water around the ship major Andre seeing that has become bright dawn cries to dick I can't leave now hide me somewhere indeed he is because now major Andre can't get out to his ship and get away well maybe it's a good thing because I think you'll find out you're right and maybe next week we'll learn more about the mysterious papers and major Andre I can hardly wait over look last week Rusty and Tex couldn't get all that sort of island they were on it and they found that train engine yes that's right and they put their horse blaze on a flat car and luckily enough got the train started and now they're on the way across the trembling trestle hoping it won't crash beneath the weight of the engine yes and just as that happened that man Smith as they were trying to get away from because he has a gun that came up to the top of the hill and aimed at him and I'm anxious to see whether he hurts rusty or Tex well let's find right now read right now and find out so here we go with rusty rally got up and run till the road is dusty give us music for his horse and rusty as the train moves faster and faster across the trestle leading from the lumber camp Smith throws his gun to his shoulder and calls rusty shouts hey text he's gonna shoot text replies turn your back on him rusty we're way out of range of that bird shot can't do more than sting a little smith fires blaze wears up and France is about rusty holding his holder says well now blaze easy boy hey golly taxi fired both barrels of some of the first shot must his son blaze takes calls back now we're over the trestle now rusty we're on even terms with him now ever only two shells in the gun last picture top row in a cabin in the valley a man dressed in the woodsman's outfit is having a cup of coffee suddenly he exclaims hey by Germany it sounds like a whistle in the lumber company's little tank engine rain's supposed to be anybody working up there he gets up those to the phone first picture bottom row saying better call the forestry look out in the fire child maybe there's a fire in the fire tower high at the top of the mountain the fire rangers sitting in front of a telescope gets the call as he answers the man in the phone says hello this is deputy cam warden Cox something must be up at the deep gorge lumber camp I heard the whistle of their dinky locomotive can you see anything the man in the tower replies my yeah link I heard it too and somebody ran the engine in the flat car over the old trestle I notified the sheriff meanwhile back in the woods taxa stopped the train and they've let blaze off dex says to rusty all right rusty get blaze back into the woods stay there with him I'd look oh humbrey is crossing the trestle I can handle him now that his ammunition's gone rusty replies okay text but golly be careful he's dangerous text walks toward the trestle with Smith has just crossed the men meet last picture and Smith snarl well thought you tricked me didn't you well now we're gonna have a showdown give me the paper that was in the back of that picture frame or I'll take you apart text replies okay mr. just take off them specs and now Texan Smith they're gonna fight it out you bet and Texas a mighty grim look on his face and he's mad because he doesn't like crooks I hope that Smith doesn't have a pistol or a knife I think Tex will be careful and I heard that forest ranger say that he'd called the sheriff my I hope he gets there in time because then text could turn this man over to the sheriff and then we could find out what those secret plans are that's missed off yes there's a lot of things we have to find out next week yes and I'll certainly be here good now that's all the time I have but before I go here's that nice man with some more interesting information well honey and all your boys and girls I got to go now mr. comic weekly man but I'll be waiting for you next week okay that's a date and a date with all your boys and girls be sure to meet me with a 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