 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 I've put the comic weekly straight into your living room. Your friend the comic weekly man, the jolly comic weekly man. Hello, hello, hello. Hello, hello, hello. Well, little Masani, how are you today? I'm just as eager as can be because of you today. And I have. Well, quick, tell me, what is it? Well, you just tell them that beginning with next week, May 11th, the American weekly is going to have a wonderful surprise for them. Oh, they love me. Well, the entire magazine, the American weekly, is going to be changed just for that. Oh, you're very good for them. How's it going to be changed? Well, the American weekly is going to be printed by a new plus with the latest text. Which means that the colors will be brighter and more brilliant and more true to life. Oh, like a technical? Yeah, that did. Oh, then it'll be more beautiful too. Oh, you bet it will be. Not only that, but it'll be printed on finer paper. And it'll be easier to read, easier to read type. My father will like that because he says his eyes get tired sometimes. I'll bet he'll like this then because he'll find it easy on the eyes because of his beauty and because it'll be easy to read. Well, I'll surely be telling him what you said and I know you'd be pleased. I'm sure he will be too. And now I would be. Pock the Comic Weekly? Yeah. Very well, I'll read that 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. Maddie Grinch for the music, please. Very well, my lady. Six guns blazing as he thunders along. Give us music for Hop along. Two crooks tried to steal the deed to Buck Peter's property. Hoppery had run the thieves down, captured the one who had the deed, and got the deed back for Buck. By one night, the thief was joined by his pal who rescued him and the two who escaped from the bar 20 ranch. Buck Peter's had gone on by train to Wyoming. Hoppy, California, and Lucky and the ranch hands are moving the furniture and other belongings by horse and wagon. As they near their destination, one of the ranch hands says to Hoppy, hey, we must have scared those two saddle tramps off the bar 20 good and proper. A week's traveling has put us within shouting distance of Buck's new ranch, with no sign of trouble. California, who's driving the wagon hollered, ah, shit. I knew all along for it necessary to send Buck and Rose on ahead by train. You meant well, Hoppy, but there was nothing to fear. Suddenly, a volley of shots stands out from behind pushing the trees along the trail. Double back. Hoppy and his friends get up for cover. There's a leader of the men who have fired at him, shouts. That's the homestead of seldom crawlers about men. Get your horses and ride them down. And this time, don't miss. Last picture, second row, Lucky looks back over his shoulder. He sees the ambushers on their horses coming after them and shouts, whoever they are, they're coming for us. Hoppy yells, head into that cave. It's the only place we can make a stand. First picture, bottom row, the ambushers rain in a short distance in the cave. And they hold up where our guns can't touch them. They're scattered on one side and blocked that hole with dry brush. They dismount, slip around to the side of the cave where there are a range of Hoppy's guns. And quickly, they pile dry brush into the cave's opening. Higher and higher builds the pile. And then one of the men throws a lighted stick into the brush. The brush catches on fire and fills the opening of the cave with a thick cloud of smoke. Last picture, inside the cave. California exclaims, Hi there, buzzards, they're trying to smoke us out. Hoppy says grimly, or suffocate us, we won't have much choice once this cave fills up. Well, I have a hunch that the two crooks have ridden on ahead and have stirred up the people who live in Wyoming and made them think that Hoppy and his friends are going to try to take their land away from them. But why would they do that? Well, you see, that way they figure that the people will drive Buck Peters and Hoppy away. And then the two crooks will get Buck Peters' ranch. Why, that's an awful thing to do. Yes, it is. Well, I wonder whether Hoppy will find a way to tell those people that he's honest. He doesn't want to take away their land from them. Well, we'll find out about that next week. Now... Oh, now can we go over to page three because I'm sure we'll find Prince Viant there. Very well over the page we go. And you're right. Here he is. And lastly, if you remember, the missionary said he arrived from home and now the little baby twins can be christened. Yes. And I know you're anxious to find out about that. So here we go with Prince Viant in the days of King Arthur. Eckert, Bracket, Grey Mulcan and Quince. Music romantic for a fair, fair prince. Music romantic for a fair prince. Music romantic for a fair prince. Music romantic for a fair prince. Music romantic for a fair prince. It's a year now since Val went to Rome to find missionaries who would come to Thule to bring the word of God to the Wild Northerners. And now, after a long, hard journey on land and sea, Rufus and Agle arrive with the churchmen. But only a few of the missionaries have survived the perilous journey from Rome. But those that are left are ready to begin at once their task of teaching Christianity to the Northmen. Last picture top row and old fortress is converted into a church. But 300 years will pass before the stubborn Vikings will renounce the warlike gods of their fathers and accept Christianity. Both Rufus and Agle have become Christians and have taught the missionaries to speak the northern tongue. First picture second row Val announces Well, as I'm the father, a prince and heir to the throne, I shall of course choose the name. But Elita forces Val gently into a seat. Second picture second row Val stumbles into a chair as she tells him that she will name her babies and she says for the more first picture bottom row one will have a name that has the melody of the south wind in it and the other will be named for the robust north. Val who has been trained to command who never takes a backward step in the face of danger gives in for it's like honey to be bullied by Elita and he also knows that beneath those shining curls there is hard common sense. And then last picture the king issues a proclamation for everyone to attend the christening for the christening of the twins is to be a grand occasion grand occasion Well, I don't know what the one name for the south wind would be but I can guess what the one whose name for the north wind would be. What do you think? Oh, I was just teasing you. I don't know what they'll be named either. Next week maybe we'll find out. Now? Oh, now I'd like to read Donald Duck. Very well, turn over the page go past Terry Mason and the Lone Ranger cross over the page past Jungle Jim turn over that page and here we go with Donald Duck say the magic words with me squeeze-jump, squeeze-jump, squitty-chicka-chack let's have music to better quack-quack Donald is talking on the phone to his girlfriend Daisy. He's saying to him We're invited to Mrs. Van Swank parking party this afternoon. Oh, yeah, a big deal. Daisy goes on I'm in the reception committee so I'll meet you there. Now, remember, it's a garden party so wear something appropriate. Talks while I talk. That afternoon, Daisy comes to Mrs. Van Swank's garden party dressed in her best jacket and hat because of course a garden party is a very fashionable affair where both women and men dressed in their nice summery clothes and then Daisy hears Hi, Doc. He turns around and sees Donald wearing a battered straw hat a pair of overalls and carrying a rake and a hole with everybody gassed. Donald says, last picture When do we start gardening? And Daisy falls in the faint. Now, what was Daisy painted? That's so funny. Me, too. Now look across the page. Oh, Uncle Remus, please read that. Very well. Here we go with Uncle Remus and his tales of Brer Rabbit. Say the magic words with me. Hippity hoppity. Make it a habit. Give us music for Uncle Remus. Uncle Remus says When Brer Rabbit helps the children he helps them every which way. Brer Rabbit is out on the forest up on the tree filling a pair of grapes what the folks in the community call cupronau. Little Racky Coon is on the ground beneath Brer Rabbit with torsion grapes down to Little Racky Coon. At that moment, Brer Buzzard, who happens to be dawdling along sees what's going on and he exclaims, Well, bless my eyeballs. Damn wild grapes looks good. Neat stuff. Little Racky Coon and grabs the grapes out of his hand. Little Critter, you is had enough. First picked the bottom roll, Little Racky Coon puts up his fists and dances around in front of Brer Buzzard shouting. Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme. You gimme him stubborn arms or I'll splatter your nose all over your ears. Brer Buzzard leans back against the tree saying, Ah, ah, ah. You is too little to her to please. Racky Coon counts. I'll show you. Just then, Brer Rabbit, who is up on the tree, whacked Brer Buzzard in the head with a pail. Last picture, Brer Buzzard spaggers down the road. That's the b-b-baminous little I ever met. Brer Rabbit chuckles and says, You just wait there, Racky Coon. I'll get you some more scuppy nongs. And Uncle Rima says, Well, it ain't what you take. It's what you get for digging. Yeah, it wasn't that a good joke on him. He thinks that little Racky Coon gave him a punch that knocked him busy. I bet he won't do that. And now it's time for Dagwit 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 with Pasta Comic Weekly. And on the first page of the second section, Dagwit and Blondie. Very well, my lady. I'm a Fum Zim Zim Zombie. Consuming music for Dagwit and Blondie. Dagwit's boss is going away for an overnight trip. He's decided to take Dagwit along with him. As they're ready to leave, Blondie tells Mr. Dithers how nice it is of him to take Dagwit along. Dithers replies, Oh, he's a fine boy. I love him as if he were my own son. They go out to the car. Last picture top row. They find the car is a flat tire. Dithers exclaims, Oh, yeah, a flat tire. We haven't even started yet. My spare is soft too. Dagwit says, Oh, don't worry, boss. I'll take your spare up to the filling station and get it repaired in the jiffy. First picture next row. Dagwit's at the filling station, talking to the station attendant who's fixing the tire. It's a big job carrying that tire up the hill. The station attendant finishes his job and says, Well, it'll be easier going back. He can roll it down the hill. Dagwit starts back down the hill, rolling the tire. Yeah, this is a lot easier. Hey, wait a minute. That's a fast. The tire begins to roll faster and faster. Hey, wait, wait. It gets away from Dagwit, rolls down the street, knocks over two wheels. First picture next row is knocked over a vegetable stand. Hey, what's the matter with you? What's the matter with you? And it rolls into a china store. Oh, what's the matter with you? Oh, no, it's my beautiful china. Last picture first row. Ditter sees Dagwit coming along carrying the tire followed by a lot of people. Ah, here he comes with a tire at last. I wonder why the crowd is following him. Dagwit starts to put the tire in the car and the crowd gathers around with the ditter. One says, You owe me twenty dollars. Another says, And you owe me fifteen. Ditter starts handing up money as fast as he can, paying off all the damage that Dagwit has done. Finally the crowd is left. Dagwit says to Mr. Ditter, Okay, boss, the tire is on. We're all ready to go now. Ditter grits his teeth and knocks Dagwit down. Then he hops in his car and drives off. And there Dagwit is left, lying on the sidewalk with his aching head. Blondie comes running out. He says he thought he was going Mr. Ditter's. Dagwit answers, That's what I thought too. That's what I thought too. He certainly did today. Yes, he did. And say that reminds me, it's a good idea for children to keep their eyes open when they're walking along the street because sometimes wheels will come off a car and roll a while that way. Well then, you know what I'm talking about when I say you never can be too careful to take weather traffic. Now look underneath Dagwit, Roy Rogers. Yes, he said she was the school teacher who was on her way to Chubby's desert mansion. And then split it. Well last week Roy caught up with those two men when the wagon overturned as they were trying to run away from him. Let's see what he discovered today. Here we go with Roy Rogers, King of the Cowboys. Now here we go with Roy and Trigger. A new man picked themselves up from the ground after the wagon overturned. The usual road agent sure made a mess of stealing the school teacher's wagon and traveling bag. Put your hands up. The man stand up. One of them holds up his hand, telling Roy that he's made a mistake. The one named Gaucho kneels over to get up and is holding his flange-looking rope with knobs on the end of it. Suddenly, he hand-flashes out and whips around Roy's wrist, knocking the gun out of his hand. Roy stumbles over backwards to avoid getting hit in the face. Last picture, top row, he turns it back to him, saying, Hey, you must excuse my excitable friend here for using his bowler. I once saved Gaucho's life from the eyes and teeth in the air to get to the Lord of the Spirit. Oh, thanks. So that was a self-imagined bowler, huh? Well, some weapons. Roy gets up, saying, first pick the next row. Well, I guess I picked you just wrong. Shelby Walton will end your mouth. We've got a dry water hole where we found Miss Drake, and we'll see to it. They head back to the water hole. Gaucho and Gaucho riding the horse that was hit to the wagon. Gaucho whips us to Dona. Dona flies. Oh, shame on us. No one thinks we've been working for me. Once we get inside the wrist-bed with rat-plant, well, the rest will be easy. They ride up to the water hole. The girl sees Roy has her bag, he says. Oh, oh, thanks for fetching my bag. I'd have been most without him. Roy holds the bag out through her last picture, saying, oh, these cans of Derby Dona and Gaucho, man. Oh, I'm sorry. As everyone looks down, Shelby explains, hey, what's the school teacher doing with a bag full of tools? What? He was going to try to get into Shelby's house, and then they were going to use these tools to open Shelby's door from the other. I have a hunch you might be right. Now, I'll be eager to see how the girl explains about those tools. We'll find out about that next week. Now, let's turn over the page and see who's there. All right, I'm from the town of here. And last week, a giant defeated a rescue rocket ship from Earth. And one of the ships exploded in the air when I was hit, and Gail was thrown out of it from packing to Earth. Well, let's read now and find out. Here we go with Flash Gordon, a rig-a-rig-a-doon-doon-pass-to-my-pass. Let's set music for heroic plans. Music Past the distant space, Gail clamors onto a tiny sphere that crosses her path while revolving in its orbit around Saturn. Investigating her hazardous push, he accidentally touches a spring laser that opens the hatch and reveals a complex mass of electronic observing and signaling devices. Meantime, back on rear, a scientist discovers the accident when his recorder receives scrambled signals. He reports, the observation satellite 17-3 is out of order. Some rattles they breathe must have found up a cellar somewhere. Last week, the top row of the space scanner is quickly focused on the trouble area, and Gail's image appears on the screen. The Rean King orders her rescue to life. I want to make tests on these earthlings to see how much Rean gas we need to kill them when we conquer their planet. Music In the second row, a rescue rocket with flash aboard his interpreter is dispatched to the tiny satellite. A Rean ship cuts across the scout moon's orbit. Just as Gail, her oxygen supply exhausted, lets go and drifts away into space unconscious. Gail is quickly taken on board the Rean ship, where the anxious flash uses his utmost skill to revive the air-starved girl. Gail darling, don't die. Flash is relieved as he starts breathing weakly. Most of the Rean crew was outside repairing their scout moon. Flash sees his big cat. Suddenly, losing a judo trick, he flips a surprise guard over his shoulder and slashes his boss down. As the second guard looks dumbfounded, flash orders, fire the long-range rockets. They're blasting off on a trip to Earth. Music Well, let's hope he's lucky and can manage to get back to Earth safely before the other rocket ships go after them. Do you think he'll make it? That's something we'll find out next week. Now, let's go over to the very last stage to Dick's Adventure. Yes, he's in the American Navy and they were chasing a British ship. And they saw this British ship and they started to run away from there setting a trap for the Americans. And I wonder what that trap is. Well, let's read now and see if we can find out. Here we go with Dick's Adventure. Say the magic words with me. The music prevents us, Dick. What no one aboard the Constitution realizes this July night of 1812 is that the British frigate, racing ahead as he's trying to escape a fight, is only bait trying to lead the Americans into a trap. Dick hears uneasily into the darkness but cannot see the shadowy forms of thick enemy men o' war against the far horizon, waiting. First picture, second row, Dick tries to fathom what's troubling him or he seems to remember something. That British ship or not, we're pretty evenly matched, eyes for eyes, gun for gun. So why did she run the second she saw it? The pale hour before dawn, the pursued quarry is suddenly swallowed up in a bank of mist. Last picture, second row, when it lifts, Dick shouts, it's a savage, far off the string. First picture, bottom row, Captain Isaac holds the very trap. Two ship, three, perhaps weaker, haven't you? No, we won't fight. There's no clearing away, no moving, the wind has died down to a dead calm. So last picture, like painted ships on a painted ocean, the Constitution and its enemies face each other, luckily just out of gun range. Captain Holt says, we'll move out of here if we have to haul this ship ourselves. That's not such a bad idea. A few minutes later, on orders, ropes are made fast to the prowl to become ship, and small boats are lowered over the side. That's exactly what they're trying to do. But how can they get very far away? Well, you see to Captain Holt, they'll get far enough away and when the wind comes up, he'll have a head start on the British ship. Oh, and then you'll be able to escape. That's what he hoped. We'll find out if he does next week. Now look, underneath Dick's adventures, Rusty Riley. Oh, in house where those troops are looking around to find those troopers that they stole and hid there. Yes, now I know you're anxious to see if they're captured. So let's read, here we go with Rusty Riley. Gallop and run till the road is dusty. Sir Percival and Knobbs have found the trophies in the system where Rusty had hidden them. Third picture top row, they start off the stairs, Sir Percival says. Here we go, Knobby. Within an hour, we'll be aboard a luxury streamliner, living a life of ease and some distance to there. The last picture in the shrubbery outside, Rusty and the others, see the inspector's flashlight, give the signal that Sir Percival and Knobbs are coming out. Then first picture bottom row, the door opening. Sir Percival and Knobbs step out. Suddenly the lights are flashed on them. I say, what's the matter? The detective shouts, All right, Duke and Limey Joe, put them up. This is the end of the line for you. A little later in the inspector's office, the detective is saying, Well, Jack, you were right. Those two birds have been on the wanted list for some time. I think these boys are in line for a reward. Jack smiles. Well, I was always sure the boys didn't steal trophies. And then the detective turns to Rusty and says, Boys, I wish you'd clear up one point. With a statewide alert on for your car, why wasn't it picked up? Where on earth is it? Eight answers. Well, sir, when they locked us in the colossal cavern, they put the car in there too, you see, and we used its battery for a life. Last picture, one of the officers comes up to Mr. Miles and says, Excuse me, Mr. Miles. Your daughter just phone. I was just waiting to see her. She says his name is Colorado Corby. Oh, good gracious. I didn't take enough with this affair. I forgot he was coming. Oh, come on, boys and sex. This may mean a trip for you three. We're caught and we're put in jail, which is just what they deserve. And next week we'll find out who this Colorado Corby is. Oh, I bet that means you're going to find new adventures. I bet you're right. 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've got to go now. All right, Mrs. Miles. Okay, that's a date. And a date with all your boys and girls. Be sure to meet me for the Little Friend Miss Honey next week when I read Pucks the Comic Weekly. For I'm the Comic Weekly Man, the Jolly Comic Weekly Man. I'll be back to read the funny 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.