 I'm the Comic Weekly Man. The Jolly Comic Weekly Man. And I'm here to read the funnies 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 of fuck the comic weekly straight into your living room. Your friend the Comic Weekly Man. The Jolly Comic Weekly Man. Well, little Miss Honey, how are you today? Oh, today I'm very excited because this is the day that you promise that you're going to start to read Robin Hood. That's right. Today we begin to read Robin Hood. And you were right. Right about what? You said they were going to be in those wonderful Walt Disney drawings and they are. I already looked. And you're happy with them? Oh, I should say I am. That's wonderful. And I'm anxious to hear you read the beginning of the story of Robin Hood. So could you please start reading the funnies now? Puck the Comic Weekly. Very well. I'll read that in just a moment. But before I do, let's listen to this nice man. Here we go with Puck the Comic Weekly and on the first page, Big Ben Bolt. Magic words for the music, please. Very well, my lady. Paint and punch and dodge and twist. It's a knockout blow from Big Ben's fist. Big Ben Bolt and his trainer, Spider, are on a barnstorming trip around the country. They go to various towns and box the local favorite. Ben has offered $1,000 to anyone who can stay three rounds with him. In a western town, Ben finds he is to fight a husky educated Indian named Chief Tall Pine. Spider has been threatened by an Indian with a knife who warns him that Ben better let Chief Tall Pine win. Spider goes away from the Indian and says quickly to Ben, Hey, listen, kid, these Tomahawk keepers want a hoot and holler laughing boy into a win. So don't tear your pal. Ben nods and says, I'll do my best, Spider. Then Spider looks across the ring. He sees another Indian smaring grease on the face and body of Chief Tall Pine. So whenever the chief is hit by Ben, his gloves will slide off the Indian's body. Spider runs across the ring and says, Hey, hey, hey, nicks on that grease, pal. That's quickly N.G. with a commission. The Indian replies, Small man has large mouth to crocodile. He goes on last picture top row. His foul name of Hamidkar, Lord of Warriors, provider of this lucky, unguent way applied to Chief Tall Pine. Unguent, my eye. That's not plain grease. Suddenly he's wrapped up behind and pushed toward Ben's corner, first picture bottom row by another Indian. Spider yells, Hey, Ben, these jokers are loading a scalpel with so much grease, your punches will slip off them like a cat off an icy roof. Before Ben has time to do anything, the bell rings, signaling the fight to begin. Ben gets up saying, Oh, wish me luck, Spider. Spider exclaims, Lucky don't need what you got used for as non-skid gloves. Oh, why did I come on this rat race anyway? Determined to finish the fight fast, Ben leads with a jolting right. A right that glides smoothly off the chief's pomaded jaw. Seeing that his punches are sliding off, Ben determines to fight in close. Last picture he clenches, but fails to get a hold on his opponent's slippery arms. And then the chief lands a hard punishing left to Ben's midsection. Why, no, there's even a rule against that sort of thing by the boxing commission. Yes, Ben can never beat that Indian or can he hurt him because his blows are sliding off. Well, we'll find out what happens next week. Now? All right, over the page we go. And you're right, here he is. Last week, that Val had disguised himself and slipped into the castle of Sigurd Holm, a cruel tyrant who is mean to the people. Yes, he slipped into the castle to get evidence of Sigurd's cruelty. And he found it. And then under cover of night, Val escaped from the castle by lowering a rope from a platform overhanging a deep abyss where a deep, wild river flowed. But the rope wasn't long enough for Val to get all the way down. And then when we left him, he was hanging in the air. And if he drops, he could be killed dead. And he can't get up that rope to the castle. Well, let's read now and see what happens with Prince Valiant in the days of King Arthur. Eckhart Breckett, Grey Malkin and Quince, music romantic for a fair, fair prince. The blackness of night, Val comes to the end of his rope. He knows he can do nothing in the darkness. So he makes a loop in the rope so we can hang more easily without wasting his strength. In their second picture, top row, he hangs in the dark, waiting for the first rays of dawn. Last picture, top row, in the castle, in the midst of the noisy dinner, Sigurd the tyrant sits thinking. Prince Valiant, he's sure, will return to the castle. And word has just been brought to him that Yarl Oder, one of his men, has disappeared, leaving his clothing in his sleeping stall. Sigurd wonders if there could be any connection. He decides to make sure. First picture, second row, he suddenly leaps to his feet and shouts, search the place, find Oder or the spy who has taken his place. Finally, the first rays of dawn begin to break through the night and there is sufficient glow for Val to see his position. To the left, he sees a cliff of clay. He draws his knife, then starts to swing back and forth. With each swing, he comes closer and closer to the cliff. And then he lets go of the rope, first picture, bottom row. The swing throws him against the cliff, quickly. He plunges his knife into the clay and holds himself still. Then slowly, he begins to chop little footholds. Slowly but carefully, he works his way down the slippery cliff. And none too soon, or from above in the castle, he can hear the baying of hounds and the shout of men searching for him. Finally, he reaches the bottom of the cliff. He knows he cannot escape by land, for the hounds would pick up his trail. So he stays in the wild, rough river, working his way upstream. Last picture, dawn is breaking. When he at last finds a hiding place under a bridge, the stream has round its way under the very gates of Sigurd's house. And there Val decides to hide in the cold, cold water and work out a plan to escape. So am I. I was afraid he'd find himself hanging so high above the stones and the river below with no way to get down. But he's still out. And in that cold water. Oh, I'm afraid he's going to have a rough time before he gets away from there. Do you think tonight? Well, that's something we'll find out next week. Now, let's turn over the page and see who's there. And his tales of Brer Rabbit. Please, quick, read that, please, quick. All right, say the magic words of me. Here we go with Uncle Remus and his tales of Brer Rabbit. If it he hopped, he'd make it a habit to give us music for old Brer Rabbit. Uncle Remus says, just hang any kind of money in front of Brer Rabbit and you, he's got a busy creature. Brer Rabbit sees a sign which reads, Wanted, Red Ghost, Reward, $11. Brer Rabbit says, Well, red, white, or blue, I is getting me a ghost. And in no time at all, Brer Rabbit is at home dressing up in his best clothes. He puts imitation money in his hat band, in his coat sleeves, leaves some sticking out of his pockets and even makes a bow tie out of the imitation money. And then, then he goes for a walk out in the country so any robber or red ghost can see he's loaded with money. As he passes the woods, suddenly the red ghost pops off from behind a tree, sticks a gun in Brer Rabbit's chest. Check your hat and coat all your- Instead of handing over his money, Brer Rabbit dashes like a streak of lightning. Last picture top row, the red ghost shouts, Stop, look, look. Brer Rabbit answers, Well, you ain't got bullets that fast, Brer Ghost. After Brer Rabbit, the ghost goes. First, it's about a row. Around the bend in the road, Brer Rabbit goes. Brer Ghost shots, go wild. Over the fence, Brer Rabbit goes. And by the time the ghost catches up with him, he sees Brer Rabbit hiding behind Brer Bull. The red ghost comes to a quick stop. Brer Rabbit says, He's insulting you, Brer Bull. Blow your horns. Down goes the bull's head. And he goes after Brer Ghost. Wait! But the bull won't wait. The ghost hangs in a tree, but now his head is out from under his red hood. And who do you think it is? Old Brer Weasel look an awful sheepish. And Brer Rabbit says to the bull who was standing under the tree snorting, Just hold on there, Brer Bull. Well, I go for the sheriff and the rewarn. And Uncle Rima says, You don't have to disguise to make yourself what you is. Brer Rabbit had it all planned. He had him right into the pasture in front of the bull. And then we... I'll bet it'll be a long time before Brer Weasel wears red again. Yes. Well, now I see you're kind of anxious. Well, let's go to the very last page of the first section then and see what we find there. Having so much trouble with the giants on the planet Rhea. Yes. And do you think that he will get to Earth safely? Well, let's read now and find out. Here we go on the very last page of the first section with Flash Gordon. Rig-a-rig-a-doon-doon, Sascha Matash. Let's have music for Heroic Flash. Flash is in his rocket ship on his way back to Earth. Suddenly he receives an urgent space radiogram. Observatories have sighted what appears to be giant comet plunging into Earth's orbit. Please investigate. Quickly accelerating, Flash tears in pursuit of this ominous invader of the skies. Closing in on the comet, Zarkov, Flash's assistant, studies his instruments. He says grimly, We can't go too near the superheated gaseous flash. The nucleus alone is bigger than the Earth. It'll obliterate our planet if they collide. Flash's picture top row. As Flash's rocket cautiously approaches the comet's head, a second tail suddenly flares back from the flaming mass. It's as if the berserk comet is deliberately trying to cremate the Earthman's puny rocket in a blowtorch blast of gas and molten metal. First picture bottom row. Fighting desperately to escape from the path of the searing comet tail, Flash jams the throttle forward to the full blast position. The abrupt change of course. Hurls Dale and Zarkov against the cabin wall. He gasps. I never saw a comet like that before. Why acts as if it were alive and had a brain. Flash has no inkling of how right he is. Hidden within the comet's flaming mass is a round electronically insulated control ship commanded by Pyron, a strange genius who has mastered the secrets of the fiery world of the comets. From his weird control ship, Pyron, last picture, can guide the comet at will. Swiftly he changes course to engulf the Earth rocket in the comet's fiery tail. And he exalts to his aid. Look, flammer. Our backwash is almost upon them. Yes, that is amazing. Why, that's just like someone trying to guide the Earth and send it through the skies any way they want to. Well, that's something we'll find out next week. Now? And will we soon be to Robin Hood? Well, we're getting close, but look. You know who's on the first page of the second section? Oh yes, Dagwood and Blondie. 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 first page of the second section, Dagwood and Blondie. Magic words for the music, please. Very well, my lady. Ram-a-foo, ram-a-fum, sim-sam-zombie, conjugal music for Dagwood and Blondie. Blondie and her friend Mrs. Dribb have asked Dagwood to take care of Mrs. Dribb's twins while the women go shopping for hats. Last picture top roll, Mrs. Dribb heads her two crying twin babies to Dagwood and says, if they cry, just warm their bottles for them. Dagwood looks at the howling twins and exclaims, If they cry, first picture, second row, he's in the kitchen, heating the milk for the babies who continue to howl. I didn't do anything. I don't deserve this. Few minutes later, he's in the living room trying to get the babies to drink their milk. That's your milk! It's good. Nummy, nummy, nummy, num-mu-mu-mu-mu-mu-mu, num-mu-mu-mu-mu-mu-mu-mu, num-mu-mu-mu-mu-mu-mu-mu-mu, num-mu-mu-mu-mu-mu-mu-mu-mu. num-mu-mu-mu-mu-mu-mu-mu-mu-mu-mu-mu-mu-mu-mu-mu-mu, won't you even try it the baby's answer the postman comes and quickly goes Dagwood yells to him last picture second-row Mr. Beasley help me oh nothing doing I gotta deliver my first picture third-row the Dagwood sticks his head out of the window and yells to his neighbor Herb Woodley yourself into it now get out of it by yourself finally last picture third-row the babies fall asleep Dagwood tiptoes to the sofa and lays them down ah at last they fall asleep my goodness my nerves were ready to explode suddenly the phone rings first picture bottom row it's Blondie who's calling to find out how the babies are and she hears Dagwood yell oh you won't come up and he begins to cry and last picture the babies Dagwood and Daisy the dog howl and howl and howl while the women shop for the hats this is what well now look underneath Dagwood and Blondie very well here we go with Roy Rogers king of the cowboys a yippie-yo now here we go with Roy and Trigger a yippie-yo boy and a man named corny maxim have discovered that a tough young boy named shanks is posing as Teddy Knox whose father owns the box-k ranch Roy has written on to the ranch to see what he can find out leaving the boy with corny maxim but the boy escapes as Roy is talking to lawyer Carstairs who's in on the crooked deal the boy sneaks up behind Roy with a raised shovel intending to knock Roy out Roy saying now listen Carstairs a note in the locket we found said Teddy Knox is held captive here in the box-k I intend to find him as the boy swings he steps on a train Roy turns around quickly hey missing the blow of the shovel it's you huh yeah and I got away from your peddler pal the boy tackles Roy and as he falls to the ground Carstairs picks up a rock and knocks Roy out I am poor violin shanks who is this man the boy says last picture top row lights Roy Rogers and he knows plenty enough to expose our scheme to steal the Knox ranch meanwhile corny maxim who is going to town for the sheriff is marrying the box-k ranch at a dead gallop the sheriff is saying record lawyer Carstairs wouldn't hope the real Teddy Knox has held prisoner like his suspect corny answers well perhaps but you must see the proof Roy Rogers and I found in the locket stitch in time saved nine they pull up at the ranch and the sheriff sees Carstairs standing in front of the house oh uh howdy Carstairs are you seen anything of a cowboy named Roy Rogers Carstairs replies why I never heard of him sure last picture corny sees Roy's horse running loose and he says Carstairs is trifling with the truth sheriff that's Roy's horse trigger sheriff looks at Carstairs and says and where's Rogers Carstairs says to himself oh blessed it I told shanks to get rid of Rogers horse if corny maxim and make Carstairs turn Roy loose I hope it turns out that way and then maybe they'll throw Carstairs in that mean boy in jail well that's something we'll have to wait until next week to find out now it's time for Robinhood now it's time for Robinhood and you'll find the story of Robinhood over the page so over the page we go here it is and here we go with the story of Robinhood it's merry merry England in the days long ago time now for Robinhood so music hi ho it's the year 1190 762 years ago King Richard the Lionheart summons his knights to the third crusade which will take him far from England across the sea the Earl of Huntington prepares to join the king at his castle his men are busying themselves preparing for the trip to join King Richard second picture the Earl says to his daughter's nurse oh find my daughter quickly good tip we'll leave it once for Nottingham yes my lord she makes her way through the crowd of busy men looking for the maid Maryam who is the daughter of the Earl of Nottingham but she can't find her anywhere in the courtyard or in the castle and she exclaims forget about playing widow the whisper at a time like this meanwhile in a nearby meadow last picture top row the maid Maryam sees a handsome young man shooting arrows at a handkerchief tied to a stick with a long pole she pushes the stick every time he shoots at the handkerchief moving it he walks forward and sees her hiding behind the bushes and he exclaims haha so it was you who made my arrows miss the mark she starts to run away he trips her with his bow first picture bottom row there's more than one way to bring down a quarry and then tip Maryam's nurse makes her way through the forest and sees Maryam and it'll must from her fall brushing the leaves from herself save the ball look at you and with the Lord Earl waiting Maryam gets to her feet and tells Tim to inform her father that she'll join him presently as she walks off she says to the handsome young man and you good rogue have my gracious leave to find and fret till my return oh why should I pine and fret last picture Maryam with a soft look in her eye says to please the lady it was lovely and nice yes she was and and is that nice young man Robin Hood I'm afraid you'll have to wait and see if he's the fellow who becomes Robin Hood well I love with the maid Maryam and she was in love with Robin Hood I will find out more about this next week oh yes he is and now it's time for Dick's adventures so let's go over to the very last page of Puck the Comic Weekly say the magic words with me rake it back as I can say that's the music for a bunch of stick Dick is lying in a hammock sound asleep his dad and mother who are working in the garden see him and his dad says oh he's in dreamland again mother I wonder what he's dreaming about this time and in Dick's dream he goes back back back back to the early days of America the year 1811 and it's just after the battle of tippy canoe on the wall bash river a brave young American general general Harrison has just defeated warriors of the Indian chief to come see and the surviving Indians are fleeing northward first picture top row the warriors had been led by an Indian named Elk Swatawak whose nickname was the prophet a terrifying figure with one eye the prophet is a twin brother of the famous Indian leader named to come see to come see was not in the battle because he had warned his brother the prophet to avoid open warfare with a white man until more braves could be brought up and victory for the Indians would be certain but the prophet had not listened to come see and the Indians were defeated having out distance Harrison's pursuing warriors the prophet directs the Indians with him to go to a rendezvous on the far side of Lake Erie and in a moment the Indians melt in the surrounding wilderness then alone last picture second roll the prophet strikes east across the vast trackless region lying between Ohio and Michigan known as the black swamp meanwhile last picture a young boatman ferrying down from the village of Detroit with supplies for one of the isolated trading posts suddenly notices two chiefs circling each other with drawn knives it is Dick who stares in amazement as he sees the two chiefs who are to come see and his brother the prophet alone at the edge of the forest at Sandusky Bay at the river's bank fighting a deadly duel really because he spoils becomes his plans to gather the tribes and beat the white people is that right that's right oh i hope dick doesn't get mixed up in that duel because those chiefs hate the white man well we'll find out next week now look underneath thick's adventures here's rusty Riley oh and i'm anxious to read that because rusty in texan peeps were on a boat that was delivering some horses to Florida and a man named blacky Kirk had the boat run aground during a storm hoping the horses would drown so he could collect insurance on the horses and texas the boys and and one of the sailors made cram cram who's a nice man they're on an island and they're safe and they hope that they can get the horses off the ship but but i wonder if they will let's read now and find out here we go with rusty Riley gallop and run till the road is dusty give us music for his horse and rusty far from the island blacky kirk and captain crump who has helped blacky in his attempt to sink the boat have pulled into the dock to call the coast guard and report the accident second picture captain crump comes out of a store after making his call and says well blacky i call the coast guard from the store they want us to wait here till they come blacky replies well he probably wants you to sign a report and after that we can go north and collect a nice insurance check for those valuable resources meanwhile last picture top row on the island where they have escaped rusty and peat come upon a body lying on the sand rusty exclaims like a radio man from our ship he's in bad shape peat says yeah i'll get text i think this beach runs clear around the island so i won't have to cross the rocks a short time later text clamming the boys are kneeling over the radio man after a careful inspection text says hey you're going to be okay sparks hey what happened to you boy spark says that man kirk must have gone nuts i was in the ship's launch with him in the skipper suddenly for no reason he's socket with a wrench and chuck me overboard they help sparks to his feet and get him down to the shore in front of the ship last picture text says well there's the ship sparks and there are 12 horses aboard her we mean to try to get him off where the tide is low why that ship isn't on the rocks it's just a ground on a sandbar if we can get aboard i'll have a radio working in a jiffy come on let's go clam says well i eat much of maritime law but i got an idea we'd have some salvage money coming if we savor captain come in jail when they get them well that's something that could happen we'll find out next week 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 got to go now all right okay that's the date and the date with all your boys and girls be sure to meet me with a little friend miss honey next week when i read pop the comic weekly or i'm the comic weekly man the jolly comic weekly man i'll be back to read the funnies do you happy boys and honnies don't forget boys and girls see you all next week your friend the comic weekly man the jolly comic weekly man