 the comic weekly man the jolly comic weekly man and I'm here to read the funnies to your 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 Puck the comic weekly straight into your living room your friend the comic weekly man the jolly comic weekly man hello hello hello little miss honey how are you today I know a riddle that's a fine answer I say how are you today and she says I know a riddle yes what is the riddle to keep the other leg from wearing out all right then why does the store stand in one leg because if he picked up now you tell me what goes around a button well that's true but it's not the answer I'm looking for something else goes around the button a billy goat goes around a button especially when especially when they bend over Puck the comic weekly very well I will in just a moment but before I do let's listen to this nice man go with Puck the comic weekly and on the first page hop along Cassidy very well my lady six guns blazing as he thunders along give us music for hop along hoppy and Doc Swayzee were trapped in Nestor shack which the outlaws brand and concha would set a fire convinced that hoppy and the doc are done for the outlaws head back to buckskin to report to doc Wiley the leader of the ghost readers they see California lucky in the sheriff heading toward them concha reaches for his gun brand exclaims get your gun to paw off that gun you fool they've seen us let me do the talking first picture next row the sheriff rides up and says we're looking for a gent dressed in black and riding a white mount brand answers spotted a man fitting that description not ten minutes ago riding east toward mesquite flat the sheriff and hoppy's pal spur on brand words that ought to steer those snoopers clear that blazing shack in the meantime hoppy and doc Swayzee have found an unfinished tunnel under Nestor shack they escape burning alive by crawling back in the tunnel but the smoke is getting thicker and thicker suffocating them big picture fourth row the handkerchiefs over their faces they feel their way through the smoke field passage suddenly hoppy's fingers touch a wooden object second picture fifth row he exclaims a doc look dynamite sticks a whole box of them I hope they're still good doc Swayzee answers there must have been here for years hoppy says first picture next row listen judging by the direction I think this tunnel dead ends just shorter than riverbed some of these sticks can either prove it or bury us well it's risky but we have no choice so quickly hoppy sets the fuse plants the dynamite at the end of the tunnel lights it and then he and doc scurry back and throw themselves flat on the floor as hoppy yells last picture fifth row get back doc there she goes first picture bottom row the explosion blows a hole in the bank of the old dried riverbed last picture California some distance away suddenly slows his horse and exclaims hey didn't I just hear thunder the sheriff doing likewise says well whatever it was it came from the north in the direction of Nestor shack we better check and turn the horses around and head toward Nestor shack yes and I hope that hoppy didn't get hurt in that explosion we'll see and if he didn't if he didn't then he and the sheriff will go after that mean old brand and concho and doc Wiley and he'll catch them all and fix them good that's what we'll have to find out next week now well now let's see very well here we go to page three and there he is yes because he's lost yes I've wanted to be a famous night and he doesn't believe he can be a great warrior if he only has one leg yes he's putting into another port with a plan in mind very well here we go with Prince Valiant in the days of King Arthur heck it break it Graham all can and quince music romantic for a fair fair prince the ship rocks gently in a strange harbor but our shows no interest he's given way to despair and can only gaze with reddened eyes at his sword and shield Prince Valiant enters the cabin come lad let's go sure you need exercise to regain your strength our fancers last picture top row of what uses strength to a crippled to cut meat with my sword and use my shield as a platter Val replies first picture next row why there is still strength of heart strength of mind good qualities to an alert who would never become a warrior you see our five known since our first practice about that you'd never be a great warrior you have to think out every move and the first natural swordsman you fought would slay you while you were thinking art becomes very thoughtful and somewhat disappointed to hear these words about himself and then last picture second row Val says the night champion wins the applause yes but it is the wise man whose intelligence directs the destiny of nations trade your useless sword for books our flux at Val then looks down and deep thought Val watches him for a second seeing how these words sink into his head and then he leaves the cabin and goes on deck first picture bottom row Val is sick with anxiety well this latest blow awaken his young friend or plunge him further into despair and then there comes quite suddenly last picture and end to all Val's worries two passengers come aboard and one of them is the medicine any doctor would prescribe for a sick young man a beautiful young girl who Val intends that are shall meet I hope she'll fall in love with him and make him believe that love is the greatest thing in the world yes and then maybe she will want to marry him yes then are for find out that a beautiful girl isn't one only by brave deeds but by brave thoughts well next week we'll find out if that's what happens now let's turn over the page and see who's there yes doctor rough and flesh are building a space platform a thousand miles away from the earth in the air and that's the girl named ginger slipped off the rocket ship and floated away into space and then flash went after her to try to help get her back because in space far from earth their bodies are as light as clouds and they don't fall they just float lazily in space without any way of controlling themselves but I wonder if I shall ever get back to the ship or if someone will save him well let's read now and find out so here we go with flash Gordon rega rega dune dunes ask him a tash let's have music for heroic flash flash brings to the rescue of ginger who has been hurled off the space platform her momentum carries her so fast that flash has to use its step up the speed slowly he overtakes the girl reaches out and grabs her last picture top row ginger clutches him in blind terror sobbing that they'll never get back but flash is too busy to answer he aims his ray blast carefully to reverse their speed hoping to catch up to the space island that is spinning in its orbit suddenly first picture bottom row a weird saucer shaped ship appears from nowhere and cuts between flash and the vanishing space platform as if guided by some evil brain a plastic tube whips out to catch flash and ginger they're pulled inside this strange craft by ugly little pygmies about three feet tall creatures from another world who strip off flash and ginger space helmets flash gasps then tells ginger it's in there but we can breathe take it easy we can't fight him yet last picture toxo the leader aims a ray gun flashes brain then pulls the trigger cloud of gas surrounds flash startled but unhurt flash now understands his captors language toxo exclaims illypathy brain waves so you can answer questions how many earth men on your ship what weapons these strange people but in a way that's better than floating away in space and being lost forever well yes because maybe flash and ginger can overcome them and then take their ship away from them and then get back to their fans well let's hope that's what happens next week yes I hope and hope so too look right across the page there's Donald Duckle my favorite very well we'll read Donald Duckle say the magic word to me please squeeze them squiddly chicka-chack let's have music to fit a quack-quack Donald is sending his nephew Louis to the store to get some groceries and he tells him potatoes salt beans and we know maybe I better write it down for you Louis replies see I can remember four things I'm not that dumb so out the door he goes and down the street and in his mind are potatoes salt beans and weeners fourth picture he passes a friend who was eating an ice cream cone and Louis says and last picture top row and the potatoes are out of his mind first picture bottom row he's thinking of ice cream salt beans and weeners second picture bottom row he passes a girl licking a lollipop Louis says and the salt goes out of his mind third picture bottom row he sees a boy eating popcorn and Louis goes and the beans are out of his mind and in his mind now is ice cream lollipop popcorn and weeners just as he goes into the store a boy comes out eating donuts and last picture Donald's phone rings when he answers it hello Louis answers are you positive you want ice cream candy popcorn and donuts for supper remember four things and then when he got to the store all he could think of were the delicious things these friends reading yes it just goes to prove it's always a good idea for little boys and girls to write down what they're sent to the store for now it's time for Dagwood and Blondie and you're so right now read that in just a moment but first here's that nice man again with something interesting to say 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 Ramaphoo Ramapham Zim Zim zombie conjure me music for Dagwood and Blondie today is the boss's birthday Dagwood calls Blondie on the phone and tells her Blondie it's the boss's birthday we're gonna give him a surprise party at the office Blondie says she'll bring the decorations from Alexander's party and Dagwood says bring balloons and the paper hats too last picture top row in the office Dagwood tells his friends Blondie is coming with all the stuff right away one of the friends answers fire and fire will decorate his office while he's at the bank first picture next row mr. Jithers is at the bank trying to borrow some money and he's saying I need a twenty thousand dollar loan immediately mr. grunt for expansion purposes mr. grunt replies impossible mr. jithers money is tight these days mr. jithers drops to one knee and implores well if you would just come up to my office and see how efficiently my business is run you change your mind mr. jithers takes mr. grunt by the hand leads him out the office last picture the row saying please come you'll be impressed by the business like manner of my employees you're just wasting my time mr. jithers but first picture third row mr. jithers brings mr. grunt into his office expecting him to show him everybody hard at work as he opens the door he sees balloons and ribbons hanging from the chandelier on his desk as a cake and 45 presents and then the office forced things mr. jithers looks nervously at mr. grunt and mr. grunt flares at mr. jithers then stalks out of the office whereupon mr. jithers leaps at Dagwood with a baseball bat jithers beats up on Dagwood last picture the row saying it's your fault mom said your nonsense cost me twenty thousand dollars suddenly first picture bottom rule the office boy rushes in and says hey come quit with the jithers your banker friend is out in the hall crying his heart out jithers dashes out see what's the matter with grunt there finds mr. grunt wiping his tears with thousand dollar bills and grunt sobs the warm affection your employees hold for you touches my heart so deeply but I'm going to grant you the loan and he holds the bills out to mr. jithers who chortles oh how delicious and then mr. grunt goes last picture mr. jithers his arms full of money bends over and says cheerfully okay everybody on the force line up and give me a big swift kick Dagwood pulls his foot back ready to give mr. jithers a good kick and says hey this is going to be fun yes mr. grunt at first thinks no one is doing their work seriously and decides not to give them the money and then he decides that mr. jithers must be a wonderful employer in order to be given such a fine party oh now a good and bland I certainly will remember had followed Roy home and now but he's after Roy with a pitchfork and he was going to stick it right in Roy's back when trigger nades suddenly and Roy turned around and there was Dolan facing him with a pitchfork please read now and see what happened very well here we go with Roy Rogers king of the cowboys I yep I owe now here we go with Roy and trigger hi yep I owe Dolan snarls I ain't got a gun Rogers but this pitchfork will fix your good and proper he throws the pitchfork Roy quickly ducks the prongs of the pitchfork just miss puncturing Roy's arm but they pin him against the corral Dolan snarls missed your gizzard Rogers but your gun arm won't be much good now he runs for a horse and gallops away third picture he calls back that'll hold you while I pick up the trailer killer Monty the double-crossing mass tender for the slug me Roy pulls the fork out of the post and runs for trigger Nancy the girl from the city and her uncle Quincy whose Roy's bookkeeper come running up to see what happened last picture top row Nancy asked Roy what's happened Roy yells that was deck Dolan Nancy the gunman who helped kill her money slipped through my fingers I've got a score to settle with them both keep an eye on trigger junior lie get back and don't let anybody steal him again any gallops off first picture bottom row Uncle Quincy sees the red bandera lying on the ground he picks it up saying Nancy where did this bandera come from Nancy tells him Roy must have dropped it and that Roy suspects it belongs to the masked outlaw killer Monty a moment later uncle Quincy is in his office he's put on his chaps strapped a gun to his waist and to say this is my chance to show Roy I'm something besides a pencil pusher with my nose stuck in a ledger and he's tying the bandera around his face the door opens that in comes his niece fourth picture bottom row she exclaims uncle Quincy well you're killer Monty uncle Quincy grabs her arm last picture saying well it's high time Roy found out that Quincy Montgomery can do something else besides juggle figure I thought trigger junior was stolen he was a dangerous man I think that's so silly it is now uncle Quincy is going off to help Roy capture deck Dolan well if Dolan sees him Dolan's up to kill him dead because he knocked Dolan out before when he was gonna kill Roy yes this could cause a lot of trouble for Roy but we'll find out more about it next week well now is the time for Dick's adventure it is indeed so let's turn over the page and there he is on page three oh I just love this because Dick is with Daniel Boone in the early days of America and it's so exciting yes last week Daniel Boone and Dick and some men had gone out to rescue some surveyors but the men had become tired and it stopped to camp for the night and in the middle of the night Daniel Boone followed by Dick slipped off to rescue the other party that was left and just after they were gone the Indians began to slip up on the camp that Boone had just left and everybody's asleep so please read to me I'm anxious to know what's happened very well here we go with Dick's adventures say the magic words with me regularly pack a zig a zig let's have music for adventurous Dick American surveying parties are being slaughtered by desperate bands of red warriors in the wild Kentucky backwoods country with one party still deep in the forest Dick and Daniel Boone search all night for their camp Boone's young son Jim remains behind with a number of exhausted surveyors dawn brings them to the campsite and a ghastly welcome the camp has been destroyed and all the white men have been killed there was nothing Boone can do so last picture top row with no sign that the warriors are around they start cautiously back to the spot where Boone's son and the survivors were left at this very moment while Boone is heading back others reach the camp before you it's the Indians who attacked the sleeping searching party they show no mercy for young or old the white settlers who are awakened are greatly outnumbered they haven't a chance the entire camp is destroyed hours later when Boone reaches the camp he and Dick get a ghastly welcome but this time it is Boone's own son who is numbered among the victims Dick watches tears in his eyes as Boone silently carries his dead son in his arms and lays him on some leaves nearby then quickly Boone and Dick go to work to dig graves for the dead first picture bottom row Dick and Daniel Boone alone in the forest and before the grave of Boone's son Boone prays but he doesn't weep and the blood of his kith and kin lies buried in the soul of Kentucky then with Dick at his side Boone returns to the tiny frontier settlement of Boone's burial he tells the sad news to the people in the small settlement and all those who have lost husbands or sons and he gives comfort to his wife who is heartbroken at the death of her son the woman whose loss is as great as his own last picture before the sun rises again Dick and Boone are once more deep in the forest wilderness now their one mission is to bring justice to Kentucky Honest the Indians for the cruel things they did yes he is and the Indians deserve it because it was senseless killing to have murdered all those white people yes I hope he gets it but don't forget though he's riding into great danger himself and we'll find out more about that next week hello Dick's adventures you remember someone had been stealing some oats from the feed bin and no one can figure out who's doing it but last week the little girl came to get some laundry in a coaster wagon and Rusty has discovered some grains of oats on the floor after her wagon has pulled away and I wonder whether she has the pony or something that she's stealing the oats for well let's find out right now so here we go with Rusty Riley gala from run till the road is dusty give us music for his horse and rusty rusty looks at the oats that are lying on the floor where the coaster wagon had been standing just a moment ago and he says to himself jeepers could it be possible that the little girl Queenie's the one who swipin the feed he says to flip his dog third picture well she sure wouldn't be eating oats and mash herself wait though maybe she's got some chickens then he decides to investigate he asked Pete the feed boss hey Pete do you know Queenie's folks where do they live Pete replies oh so that's the way it is half interested in little miss Queenie yeah well they live in a shanty in the north edge of the woods so off rusty goes following the girl he gets within sight of her last picture top row he says jeepers there she goes she's the one who's been taking the feed I'd sure like to know what she does with it he takes her he sees her take a shortcut through the woods first picture bottom row the path twists and turns he tries to get a little closer and then suddenly discovers that she disappeared then flip last picture starts off a little path leading sideways through the trees rusty exclaims hey come back you flip what are you after a rabbit or something and then he exclaimed jeepers there's a kind of branch path down into that gully you know what I'll bet you're right about whatever you're right about yes well next week we'll find out more now next now should we read Uncle Remus oh yes please very well turn over the page go past Yungal Jim past Perry Mason and the Lone Ranger turn over another page and there on page six is 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 this is a tale about Brer Fox catching Brer Rabbit with his clothes on a hickey limb Brer Rabbit and Brer Terrapin are out in the pond having a little swim when suddenly Brer Rabbit sees Brer Fox coming toward him and he exclaims oh there's Brer Fox he's caught me Brer Terrapin whispers something in Brer Rabbit's ear and then he dives under the water third picture top rope Brer Fox on shore says cheerfully well if it ain't Brer Rabbit all by is all alone so and Brer Rabbit answers now wait Brer Fox you is that they're taking unfair advantage Brer Fox starts to come waiting into the water licking his chops first picture bottom roll Brer Rabbit says keep away Brer Fox keep away the Yalligators will get you Brer Fox answers yep yep yep how come the Yalligators a to get you at that moment at the bottom of the pond next picture Brer Terrapin is saying to two little crawfish you have huge pincer claws all right Brad crawfish you boy do your stuff and the two little crawfish snapped their claws on Brer Fox's foot he yells help help help hey oh the Yalligators got me and Brer Rabbit says last picture don't worry Brer Fox you let go the next time it fun does and Uncle Rima says you can sink your way into trouble as easy as stepping into it he's being titted by little tiny crawfish and he thinks the Yalligators have got it yeah it's Brer Terrapin certainly outfoxed him that's all I just love him as and they'll be here 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 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 honey don't forget boys and girls see you all next week your friend the comic weekly man the jolly comic weekly man