 I'm the Comic Weekly Man, the Jolly Comic Weekly Man. And I'm here to read the bunnies to you happy boys and honeys. 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, I've poked the Comic Weekly straight into your living room. Your friend, the Comic Weekly Man, the Jolly Comic Weekly Man. Hello, hello, hello. Hello. Little Miss Honey, how are you today? I'm kind of warm today. Why? Good for the corn, but not for you, huh? Yeah. You have a riddle today? I certainly do. Now listen, I can carry a man, but I cannot walk. I have a tongue, yet I cannot talk. Though I have eyes, I cannot see. I wonder what my name can be. The answer quick. Very well. I'm a pair of shoes. Can't walk by themselves, and they have a tongue, and they have eyes. Now would you please read me the funny? Pock 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 Pock the Comic Weekly. And on top of the first page is 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. Hoppy and Doc Swayze escaped from being burned alive when the ghost raiders tried to kill them by setting Nestor's shack on fire. The sheriff, California and Lucky, joined Hoppy in order to capture the ghost raiders. Hoppy has worked out a plan which he has put in operation today. A merciless son beats down upon a two-man wagon party, slowly crawling across the shimmering desert floor. It's Lucky in California. Lucky says, first picture, second role, but Hoppy's right it was the ghost raiders that tried to kill him and Doc Swayze and Nestor's shack. California replies, Well, 5,000 were totent to El Paso. Hard to be enough bait to lure them out in the open. They approached the waterhole where the robberies had occurred before. California says, There's the waterhole. Now don't forget your instructions. Lucky replies, Don't worry, I'm just thirsty, not crazy. They pull up beside the waterhole, big picture, third row. They rain in, eagerly Lucky in California dismount, and drop beside the waterhole, but they only pretend to drink. Then they continue on their way. First picture, fourth row, a dozen miles beyond the waterhole, they make camp, and then they bed down under blankets and pretend to fall asleep. In the silence of the night they wait, tensed and ready. Suddenly off in the shadows, it's two men who slip quietly toward them. It's Brand and Conscio, the outlaws. First picture, next row, Brand whispers, Ah, sleeping like babes. That drunk water sure did its work. And Conscio exclaims, And now we do ours. They look brand. The 5,000 they break about in town. And then the unexpected happens. A tarpaulin is jerked off the wagon. All right, man, get him. Conscio exclaims, It's a threat, and they run for their horses. After them, I'll go over that little line there. First picture, bottom row, Lucky in California leaps to their feet and fire at them. And last picture, Lucky says, Ah, the plan's working. They're dubbing them back toward Buckskin. Take after them. California and I will shortcut into town to sound the alarm. The sheriff's men in the wagon get surprised even in me. Me too. Now if Lucky gets back to the town of Buckskin in time, they can head off the outlaws and then they can capture them. Do you think that'll happen next week? The only way to find out is to be here. Oh, I love. Good. Now it's time for Prince Valet. And he's on page 3, I know. So over the page we go, and here he is on page 3. You remember because he lost one of his legs, and so Val has been trying to cheer him up. Yes, and when they stopped at a strange port, Val tried another plan which he had in mind. And just as he was wondering how it would work out, A beautiful girl decides to introduce the beautiful girl to Arth. Yes, he hopes that Arth will fall in love with the girl and forget about it. And I hope she will fall in love with him. So do I. Now let's find out how it works out. Here we go with Prince Valient in the days of King Arthur. Heckard, brekkard, gray, mullkin, and quince. Use a chromatic for a fair, fair Prince. So despondent is Arth over his shattered dream that Prince Valient has to tell him that he never would have become a great warrior. Then two passengers board the ship. Val and Prince Valient, and Prince Valient, and Prince Valient, and Prince Valient, the passengers board the ship. Val makes haste to introduce himself for here is someone who could easily make a young man forget his problems. Val tells the young lady, last picture top roll, we have a long journey ahead of us across Windry Seas. Perhaps my young squire can help you while away the lonely hours. Big picture middle of the page, Val leads the young lady whose name is Adele to Arth's cabin. And immediately he becomes tongue-tied. He remembers that his hair is uncombed, his tunic rumpled. Val is commanded that he entertain the girl, so in the course of duty, he reads to her the account of their travels from Thule to Rome. Adele thinks it's splendid. She asks Arth who wrote it. Arth answers modestly, oh, it's just something I dashed off for the king of Thule. Once again the ship has gone to sea. And Val's plan seems to be working. In the days he aspired to be a great warrior, Arth had disdain using. But now, still in the course of duty, he finds it a pleasant way to entertain. First picture bottom roll, he serenades the fair Adele who listens, a soft green look in her eyes as their ship sails under the starry skies toward home. A smile comes once again to Val's face before he goes to sleep at night, for he has found the way to make his young squire happy and forget his unfortunate accident. And Val plays the lute as Arth, his evening spent composing ballads for his beautiful young lady, works on. We see him dreamily at work. Last picture, writing sonnets for the amusement of one small girl. Adele is in love with Arth, and Arth is in love with her, and he's happy again. Yes, he is. He looks as happy as any young man could be. Isn't that wonderful? It's just wonderful. Oh, I love people who are in love. So do I. Would you like to read another comic? Yes, please, please. Very well then. How about Donald Duck? Oh, I just love Donald Duck. All right, turn over the page and go to the single gym. Turn over that page, and there is Donald Duck at the top of page six. Say the magic words with me, please. Squeeze them, squeeze them, squeeze it. Let's have music. Quack, quack. Donald and his nephew, Huey, are going out golfing. Donald, who is going to play nine holes of golf, says, I lost six balls the last time I played. If we don't lose any this time, I'll treat you to a movie. Huey replies, Boy, oh, boy! I'll keep my eye on the ball. Donald takes a swing at the ball. And away the ball sails away, away, away. And then out of sight, Huey exclaims second picture. It's in the rough, but I got it spotted. So they walk out on the rough, which is in the woods in the bushes in the grass of the fairway of the golf course. And Donald finds the ball, and Huey says, Hard to get back on the fairway, Uncle Donald. This was a little hard to find. So Donald gives the ball a wallop. And away it goes and lands on the fairway. They trudge after the ball again. Donald settles down and plays a good game. Until finally, fourth picture, first row, Huey says, Only three more hoes, Uncle Donald. And we haven't lost the ball yet. Last picture, top row, Donald wallops the ball again. And they watch it as it sails away. And this appears in the rough again. And they trudge after it once more. Finally, second picture, bottom row, Huey tells Donald as he hands him the club, The last hole, Uncle Donald. And if you don't lose the ball this time, we've won. Donald replies, I won't lose it. I'll put it right on the green. Donald takes a whack at it. Huey exclaims, Third picture, bottom row, You done it, Uncle Donald. It's right on the green. And they walk toward the green that the ball is lying on. They have to cross over a little bridge. Next picture, Huey is carrying the golf clubs and the golf bag. And Huey says, You didn't lose a single ball. Suddenly the shoulder strap breaks and the golf clubs in the bag drop into the river below. And last picture, they both look at the golf bag lying at the bottom of the river. Donald scowls furiously. And Huey looks sad. And the golf clubs look like a!!! Yes, and now Donald has lost a whole set of clubs. Yes, let's hope that they remember that. We certainly can please in just a second, 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 first page of the second section and Blondie. Magic words for the music, please. Very well, my lady. Ram-a-foo, Ram-a-fum, Zim-Zim, Zombie, conjume music for Dagwood and Blondie. Blondie's on the verge of a nervous breakdown. She's telling Tootsie Woodley her friend. Oh, everything seems to go wrong. I have to bake a cake for Mrs. McNuff's surprise party, and then I have to dye the living room gray. And Tootsie Woodley tells her, now stop working, Blondie. We'll get everything under control. An hour later, last picture top row, Blondie goes to the kitchen and Tootsie tells her, see how nicely everything's working out? There's your beautiful cake for Mrs. McNuff. Finish to the icing. And Blondie exclaims, Wonderful. Water to dye the drapes. And she runs upstairs. She fills the tub full of water. And first picture second row, just as she's going to put the dye in the water, Tootsie tells her it might be a good idea to look at her drapes before putting the dye in. Blondie says, Good idea. We'll run over to your house a minute. No sooner have they gone out of the house, though, than Dagwood comes home saying, Nice to the boss to let me go home early today. Maybe I can help Blondie around the house. He walks into the kitchen and sees the cake on the table. Last picture, second row. He cuts himself a piece, exclaiming, Oh boy, what a delicious cake. Blondie knows how I love devil's food. First picture, third row, he goes into the bathroom and sees the tub of water that Blondie has drawn to dye the curtains in. And he exclaims, And a tub of water, all ready for me. Oh man, what a beautiful wife I've got. And a moment later, he's in the bathtub soaking himself. Suddenly, he hears someone coming up the stairs. It's Tootsie and Blondie, and they stop outside the door. Dagwood exclaims, Oh, they're coming in here. And he takes a deep breath and ducks under the water. Tootsie and Blondie come into the bathroom and Tootsie says, We better use two packages if you want to dock her. And she pours in a whole box of green dye. And Blondie says, You sure this isn't too much dye? But she pours in another box of green dye. Suddenly, first picture, bottom row, up comes Dagwood. And he gasps, I can't hold my breath any longer. Dagwood, you're green. Tootsie dashes out of the bathroom with Blondie after her. They dash into the kitchen and Tootsie exclaims, Slice out of Mrs. McNuff's cake and Blondie faints. Last picture is Tootsie fans Blondie trying to make her come to Dagwood wearing a towel and looking grief as an elf walks in. And he reads the directions on a box of dye. And he howls, Oh, won't he look funny going into the office tomorrow? I think that's the funniest thing. Oh, and Blondie wakes up. She's going to faint again. He's so funny. Well, I know one thing they can use him for. What? A traffic light. That's so funny. Well, now, very well, since you're so eager, here we go on the bottom of the page with Roy Rogers, King of the Cowboys. Ah, yip-yoh, now here we go with Roy and Trigger. Ah, yip-yoh. Deck Dolan has stolen a horse from Roy Rogers ranch after trying unsuccessfully to kill Roy. Roy let out after Dolan. But no sooner had Roy left than Uncle Quincy, the timid bookkeeper, ran into his office and dressed up as the outlaw, Killer Monty, saying that he'd show Roy he could do more than just push a pencil and do office work. First picture, Roy pursues Deck Dolan to an old mine. Dolan leaps off his horse and runs up an old oil chute up to the side of the mountain. When he reaches the top, he turns around so Roy can see him. Ah, if I can sucker Rogers up this old oil chute, I'll have him just where I want him. At this moment, Roy gallops up and reigns in at the bottom of the chute. He sees Dolan at the top, running for a cave in the mountain side. Roy dismounts quickly, third picture saying, oh, now easy boy. Looks like the only way to reach Dolan is to climb that ore chute like Dolan did. Here I go. Dolan quickly grabs a barrel of kerosene standing nearby as he watches Roy coming up the chute and he says, ah, Rogers is coming. I ain't got a gun, but I'll bust every bone in his body with this. He rolls the barrel toward the head of the chute. The last picture top row pushes the barrel of kerosene down the chute. As it rolls, the cork pops out and the kerosene pours onto the wooden chute. First picture bottom row, it hits Roy, knocking him out. At that moment, Uncle Quincy, masquerading as killer Monty, gallops up. He sees Dek Dolan at the top of the chute, touching a lighted torch to the kerosene, which catches on fire. The fire quickly races along the kerosene spilled on the wooden chute, travels swiftly toward the barrel and the unconscious Roy. Uncle Quincy, last picture, shouts, hey, Roy, wake up. You're on fire. I'm toying. Yes, he's soaked with that kerosene. Oh, you'll bring up. Unless Quincy saves him. Do you think he will? Well, we'll find that out next week. Oh, next. No, but we'll still have to wait. My. Well, now if you'll go over the page. Hold up there, Flash Gordon. Yes, Flash Gordon, who has been sent out on an expedition to build a space platform in the air a thousand miles away from the urch. But ginger. And Flash went after her to save her. And ship. Well, let's find out what happens to Flash and Ginger. So here we go with Flash Gordon. A riga, riga, doon, doon, saskum, a tash. Let's have music for heroic flash. Dr. Ruff climbs inside the rocket platform, circling the earth. He tells Dale. We've lost Flash and Ginger. She was thrown off. Flash jumped after her. They vanished in space and their oxygen won't last. Dale pleads for him to turn around and save Flash, but the scientist faces grim second picture as he answers. No, ginger is my niece. But to turn back would endanger more crew members. We can't do that. Meanwhile, last picture top row on the mysterious spaceship that has picked up Flash and Ginger, their captors reveal themselves as men from Mars. Their chief, Toxo, uses hypnotic brain waves to make Flash answer questions about his unfinished space platform. Flash, who is in a trance and does not know what's happening to him, answers the questions, giving out the information to Toxo, leader of the Martians. First picture bottom row, Toxo focuses his periscope on the earth men's project and he gloats. And then Flash, lowly coming to, knows from Ginger's bitter charges of treachery that he must have given away secrets. Desperately, he tries to plan some way to outwit the Martians. The camouflage top of the Martianship makes it invisible to the workers on the space platform who forge ahead in their building operations, unaware of the danger that lurks nearby last picture. The Martian observers keep a close watch, biding their time to strike at the Great Laboratory Fortress, floating thousands of miles above the earth. So do I, because if he doesn't, the Martians are going to wait until the earth men have finished making that space platform and then they're going to capture it themselves. And just think Flash is so close to Dale and she doesn't know he's there. Oh, well, maybe- Oh, let's hope so. Well, now it's time for Dick's adventures. And look, here he is right across the page. And you remember last week, Daniel Boone's son and some of the other early settlers were killed by the Indians in a cruel rage. Yes, in Daniel's. Well, let's find out now. Here we go with Dick's adventures. Say the magic words with me. Riggity pack is act-ca-zink. Let's have music for adventurous Dick. Despite constant bloody outbreaks, Daniel Boone is still intent on ending warfare between settlers and Redmond in Frontier, Kentucky. With his own son killed, he and Dick trek ever deeper through the wilderness seeking the Indian leaders. In a forest clearing, they suddenly halt. Dick and Daniel dismount and make their way quietly to the edge of the river. They peer through the tall grass and see across the swollen, Reed French dream, the main shawano village. Last picture top row, they see parties of warriors coming out of the woods and their horses. They're gathering for a war console and carry grizzly trophies on their belts. Boone and Dick, knowing the Indians will listen only if no fear of them is shown, wade boldly cross, holding their hands high in the air in a gesture of friendship. First picture, second row. They climb out on the bank and are greeted by the chief who is crowning with hate. Next picture, Boone demands a hearing before the assembled chiefs and bravers and quickly the word is passed around among the Indians. Last picture, second row, the warrior seat themselves in a large console hut. Admiring the white men's courage and risking themselves in their midst, the shawanos hear out Boone in silence. He offers forgiveness for his son's death and then pleads for peace. First picture bottom row, to Dick's joy, the warriors after considering this proposal offered to shake hands on it white man fashion. An instant later, Dick find himself with a stalwart Redmond gripping each of his hands and he sees that a similar ruse is being practiced on Boone. Both struggled furiously but in vain to shake their foes loose. And they're carried out of the console hut. Last picture, ambushed by these wily means, they are thrown roughly into a guarded hut. And there they wait till their fate is decided by the war console. It was when you realize that Boone came there without any hatred in his heart, even after the Indians had killed his own son and wanted to have peace, it was a mean, mean trick. So do I. He realizes that hatred is no way to arrive at peace. Well after that trick, I'm afraid that Boone and Dick are in danger of their life. Well we'll find that out next week. Now look, underneath Dick's adventures there's Rusty Riley. Oh yes. Then a little girl came to get laundry in her coaster wagon and when she'd gone away, Rusty found some grains of oats where the wagon had been standing and he wonders whether she could have been taking the oats. And then now he's trailed her into the woods. Let's read now and see whether she's the one who's been taking the feed. So here we go with Rusty Riley. Gallop and run until the road is dusty. Give us music for his horse and Rusty. Rusty sees Flip taking a little path leading off into a gully. He follows Flip saying, that little girl queen must have gone down into this gully but she sure couldn't pull that wagon with a basket of was through this underbrush and suddenly he sees something through the bushes. He pushes them apart and there's the wagon. He exclaims, gee willikens, there it is hidden in the bushes. He follows the path which leads down the hill and at the bottom of the hill he says, a cave entrance. Last picture top row Rusty looks at the ground in front of the cave entrance and says, hey she came in here all right. She spilled a few grains of oats. What the dick, why there's a print of a horse's hoof here. First picture bottom row Rusty goes into the cave quietly and finds Queenie there feeding a horse. Rusty says, hello Queenie. A little girl looks up very frightened. Rusty smiles at her and says, don't you remember me Queenie? I'm Rusty Riley from Milestone Farm. Queenie begs Rusty not to tell on her. Rusty sits down third picture and says, how about telling me all about it. I guess it's you who's been stealing the feed from our barn for this horse. Whose horse is he? Oh come on, come on, tell me. So Queenie tells Rusty that it's her horse Snowflake. Only she's not supposed to have a horse anymore. That they're too poor. Her daddy was going to sell Snowflake with the other horses when they lost their farm. But she hid Snowflake in the cave and pretended that the horse had strayed away. Rusty listens carefully to this sad story. And then last picture says thoughtfully and seriously, I know how you feel but stealing is never right Queenie. Say, maybe I've got an idea. Rusty'll have a good kind idea because he's a good kind boy. I think you're right and next week maybe we'll find out what the kind idea is. And I hope this kind idea will mean that Queenie can keep her horse and won't have to sell it. Oh that'd be kind of nice wouldn't it. Well now that's all the time I have. But before I go here's that nice fellow with some more interesting information. Well honey and all your boys and girls, I gotta go now. All right Mr. Sonic 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 honeys. Don't forget boys and girls see you all next week. Your friend the Comic Weekly man, the Jolly Comic Weekly man.