 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 Puck, the Comic Weekly, straight into your living room, your friend, the Comic Weekly Man, the Jolly Comic Weekly Man. Hello, hello. A little miss, honey. How are you today? Oh, I just can't wait. Can't wait for what? All week long, I've been wondering what's going to happen to Flash Gordon. Well, if you're that worried about Flash Gordon, suppose we read the funnies right away. Oh, please do. Very well. Here we go with Puck the Comic Weekly. But first, here's that nice man with something interesting to say. Well, of all you kids, got Puck the Comic Weekly spread out in front of you? Oh, good. Here we go on the first page with little snookums. His father Archie is showing him how to play baseball, and he breaks a neighbor's window, and the neighbor gets plenty mad. I guess Archie doesn't know how to play baseball. I should say not. Now, will you please turn over to Flash Gordon, because Flash has been captured again by that bad man, Zinn. And Zinn sent Flash into the liquid-gen chamber to breathe the smoke that would make him lose his willpower and do anything that Zinn wanted him to do. But Rubio gave Flash something to put in his nose so that he wouldn't breathe that gas. But Flash pretends that he has breathed the gas, and Zinn believes that Flash is now in his power. So please, let's find out what Zinn very well. Here we go with Flash Gordon. Magic words for the music, please. Very well, my lady. Rubio has taken Flash out of the slave barracks where Zinn has placed him. She tells Flash she saved him from the slave gas because she loves him. Flash answers coldly. You say that Dale is dead, and if she is, you and Zinn caused her death, Rubio becomes angry and tells Flash she'll send him back to the gas chamber herself, but she quickly stops her tirade and whispers that Zinn is coming. Flash again pretends to be a slave zombie and watches for his chance to outwit both Rubio and Zinn. Last picture top row, Zinn stops when he sees Rubio and Flash and says angrily, Rubio, you romantic fool. Keep away from Gordon. I need him as my stooge to conquer Mongo. Flash march back to the slave barracks. Flash pretends to obey. To test Flash, Zinn, first picture bottom row, leads him past the walled area where Dale is kept prisoner. Dale sees Flash and cries out to him. When Flash hears her voice, he almost stumbles, but marches away like an automata not daring to turn his head. For if he does, Zinn would know that Flash is not really under the spell of the liquid gen gas. Zinn leads Flash to the slave barracks saying, you will obey me, not Rubio. Stay here till I send for you. Flash enters the slave barracks and the door closes behind him. Flash must rescue Dale or die trying. Later that night, he tunnels under the wall of Dale's prison, swiftly digs, hoping to find a way through the wall to tell Dale what his plans are. I'm so glad that Flash and Dale know that the other one is still alive. So am I. Now maybe Flash can do something to help Dale and then they can both escape. Let's hope so, because Flash is in a mighty tough spot. Yes, but, you know, he is a hero, so maybe he'll find a way out. Yes, we hope. Now look across the page. Oh, Dick's adventures in Dreamland. Last week Dick woke up and I wonder if this week he'll fall asleep and have another exciting dream. Let's find out. So across the page we go with Dick's adventures and let's send music for adventurous Dick. Dick has been talking with his father and he's becoming drowsy and he yawns and says, Oh, gosh, Dad, suppose we turn the clock back 175 years back to the year when Paul revered back to old Bush. His eyes closed and in a second he's dreaming that he's with Paul Revere again back in the city of Boston in the early days of America. Revere, who was a silversmith, that's a man who makes wonderful things out of silver, is packing some candlesticks and teapots and other things in boxes of straw. Paul says, Oh, I've been waiting quite a while for you, Dick. Tell me, can you drive a team of horses? Dick replies, Why, I think so, Mr. Revere. Last picture top row, a few minutes later, Dick is moving a number of silver wrought objects from Paul Revere's workshop down to a wagon at the door. A team of bays is already in place. Meanwhile, first picture next row, Revere is loading on some mysterious heavy-looking boxes. He doesn't explain what's in them, nor does Dick inquire. They're pushed out of sight and then Paul says to Dick, We're going to deliver some silverware which Mr. John Hancock ordered me to fashion for him. He's staying at the clock part in his in Lexington. As to the boxes, it's best that you don't know what's in them, Dick. In fact, you might forget that you ever saw them. I'll ride ahead. You follow directly behind me. Dick climbs on the wagon and takes up the reins. Last picture of the row and replies, I understand, sir. And Dick drives off. Slowly, through the narrow clogged streets of Boston, Dick drives the team. A few paces in advance, rides Paul Revere watchfully. As they near the gates leading out of town, first picture bottom row, a red coat motions Dick to halt. Dick stops the team. The red coat soldier has Dick several questions about what's in the wagon. Dick tells him last picture. The red coat soldier answers, Master Paul, review silverware you, sir. Yeah, boy? Very good. But are you quite sure there's no muskets and bullets hidden in this wagon, hey? Dick looks at the soldier in surprise. Short distance away, Paul Revere, astride his horse, watches the British soldier carefully to see what he'll do next. Well, I'll bet you that is what's in the boxes. Bullets and guns. Because maybe Paul is taking them to some Americans who need them. Say, you really have the mind of a detective. Well, I should have. I listen to my favorite detective, Nick Carter, all the time. I hope you're right. Next week we'll find out. And I can hardly wait until next week to find out if I'm right. Well, here's something else that's exciting. Right under Dick's adventures. Oh, yes, Rusty Riley. You know, I'm really worried about that because that slinky, taffy aleradise who's Mr. Miles' nephew is going to do something bad to Big Blaze, that wonderful horse. And when Rusty told Mr. Miles that he overheard taffy scheming to fix Big Blaze so that he couldn't run in the race, Mr. Miles didn't want to believe him. That's why Rusty saved Big Blaze all by himself. And he is just a little boy. Well, let's read and see where the Rusty saves Big Blaze. So here we go with Rusty Riley. Gallop and run till the road is dusty. Give us music for his horse and Rusty. Taffy is making a long distance call to the city to a man named Corky. Taffy owes Corky some money. And it's Corky who has told Taffy to fix Blaze so he can't run in the race. Taffy is saying, Well, Corky, this is taffy aleradise. Now listen carefully because I can't talk long and I don't want to be overheard. Miles is going to ship Big Blaze to Cedar Point Track in the morning. What do you want me to do? No, nobody's watching him right now. There's a hunt club party going on here and Tech Spurdy has the night off. Corky replied, I got you. We'll have to act quick. There's too much money involved to quit now. Get the key to the horse van if you can. I'll be there in 20 minutes. Meanwhile Rusty slips out of the house and says to himself, Collie, what am I going to do? Texas away and Mr. Miles won't believe me. I've got to protect Blaze somehow. He runs toward the barn. Gee, Willikens, I just remembered that old cave that used to be a mushroom cellar. I'll put Blaze in there. Rusty goes in the barn quickly, unties Blaze and leads him out of the stall. Last picture top roll. Come on, boy. I'm sorry to disturb you, big fella, but we've got to get you out of sight. Rusty has led big Blaze away from the farm out to the cave and he says, This won't be quite as ritzy as your own stall, Blaze, but believe me, boy, right now it's a lot safer. Then when he has tied big Blaze in the cave, Rusty suddenly thinks, Great guns. I just thought of something. Those men think he'll build these big Blaze. He's in Blaze's stall. Oh, golly, maybe they'll do something to him thinking he's Blaze. Meanwhile Corky's arrived from the city and is outside by the barn talking to Taffy. He has the van ready and is intending to steal big Blaze. But what neither of the men know is that the horse in big Blaze's stall is Rusty's horse, Hillbilly. Taffy says, I don't like this, Corky. Stealing Blaze is too risky. Hadn't we better call the whole thing off? Corky replies impatiently, Shut up and get busy. This is made of water. Bring that nag out and get him into the van. Taffy goes into the barn to get Hillbilly. Meanwhile, at the house, one of the guests who's leaving is talking to Mr. Miles. He's saying, I hate to trouble you with this Quinton, but I wonder if anyone found a wallet. Mine must have dropped out of my top coat. It had my driver's license in it. Mr. Miles frowns and replies, Oh, good heavens, Judge Adams. Your wallet? It must be on the floor in the room where the coats were. Let's have a look. And that goldie, that mean Taffy's wife, and she took that wallet last week out of the coat and she put it in Rusty's room. Yes, she did. And now when they look for the wallet, they'll just probably find it in Rusty's room and they'll think that he stole it. And that's just what she wants him to think, that mean, mean woman. That's exactly what she intends. She wants to get Rusty into trouble. I think that's terrible, terrible trouble. Well, now maybe you can forget your worries if we take a look at Roy Rogers. Let's turn over the page to page six. And there underneath the little king is Roy Rogers. I managed to know what happened now because last week Roy captured that old hermit who was setting the fire to the telegraph pole. Yes, and Roy found out that he was using a great big magnifying glass to shine the sun through and set things on fire with. And the hermit's mule all of a sudden he started kicking Roy, and I wonder if Roy's all right. Well, let's find out. Here we go with Roy Rogers. Ah, yep, I owe. Now here we go with Roy and Trigger. Ah, yep, I owe. The crazy mule has been tied to a post where he can do no more harm. Brad, who is Roy's friend, looks at the old hermit and suddenly explains, Hey, he's my eyes playing me false again. Why, it's all quartz, the prospector. The old hermit replies, Eh, nearly blinded you with my big, glassy telegraph hermit. Wish your head weren't for your ornery telegraph line. Then my mirror'd be the fastest message sent in these parts after it's silvered. And then Mr. I. Q. Theron, the inspector for the telegraph company, looks at the large piece of glass and exclaims, He's right. If this lens was silvered for a mirror, he could send code messages by flashing sunlight. Roy says, last picture top row. Well, no wonder he hated the telegraph company. Competition, Brad asked. Yeah, but how the dang thing start fires? Roy replies, first picture next row. Well, the unsilvered lens acts like a big, burning glass when the sun shines through it. And I. Q. Theron adds. Precisely. He shot the concentrate ray at one spot in the valley. And presto, a fire. Roy says, or he could blind anybody coming up the trail. So with the old hermit caught and danger cleared up for the moment, they prepare to return to the camp. Later at the telegraph camp, Brad asks, Hey, what are we going to do with all quartz, Roy? Roy replies, or just hold him in camp till the sheriff decides what to do. He's harmless now. And I doubt if the company will prosecute him now that nothing stands in the way of the telegraph line being finished. Is there right in the camp one of the men calls? Hey, Roy Rogers, wire just came from here for Mesa City. Bill Langley wants you there, pronto. Roy replies, last picture the row. Trigger, that means we ride. So am I. And our next week, Roy begins a new adventure. And I won't miss that. Neither will I. Oh, look, right here on the East Roy, Roger, there's Donald Duckle. And I'll read that in just a moment, but first here's that nice man with something interesting to say. Now here we go again with Puck the Comic Weekly. And on page six is Donald Duckle, Good for a Chuckle. Say the magic words with me. Squeeze em, squeeze em, squeeze a chick a chick. Let's have music to fit in, quack quack. Today Donald is at the beach with his three nephews. Donald is showing them what a great acrobat he is. He takes a run, leaps into the air, turns a somersault in the air, and exclaims, Look, boy, it's a double flip. And then lands, and kicks sand all over a picnic lunch which has been spread out by a man and a lady nearby. The man leaps to his feet and shouts, Get sand on our lunch again, and there'll be trouble, you beach acrobat. Donald replies, Go on, this is a public beach. And then runs off, saying to his nephew, Dewey, Watch now, a full twist. He makes a leap in the air, comes down, and lands on a big balloon that his nephew was playing with. The first picture next row shoots straight up into the air, and comes down, on a cake in front of the angry man, and the man stares at him and frowns and says, Grr, yeah. And Donald smiles sheepishly, which looks very funny in a duck, and points to a pie in front of him and says, Uh, my, wasn't that lucky. I didn't even touch the pie. And suddenly there is a... And last picture, Donald is walking off with a pie on top of his head, and his nephew, Dewey, asks cheerfully, What flavor is it, Uncle Donald? And Donald is so mad that all he can think to say is, Grr. Oh, wasn't that too bad? That really was an accident. Donald landing on that balloon and shot him up into the air. But it certainly wasn't an accident when the man slammed the pie on Donald's head. No, doesn't he look funny? He certainly does. Well, now how would you... Oh, I just love to very much if it's Dagwit and Blondie. Well, it certainly is. And here they are, right on the first page of the second section of Puck the Comic Weekly. So here we go with Dagwit and Blondie. Ram-a-foo, Ram-a-fum, Zim-Zim-Zombie, conjure me music for Dagwit and Blondie. Blondie tells Dagwit, Dagwit, I want everything removed from our attic. It's a disgrace. Dagwit looks surprised and exclaims, Everything? So up to the attic they go. Dagwit takes a look around at all the stuff and Blondie says, All that junk must go. So Dagwit starts carrying all that junk out of the attic. Last picture top row, he comes down the ladder, carrying a birdcage, a guitar, a horrid looking picture, and a vacuum cleaner, and books, and an old rug. And he exclaims, Oh, it's amazing how much stuff a family can accumulate over the years. And down the ladder he goes. By the time you get to the first picture of the next row, Dagwit has a big pile of junk in the back yard. And he exclaims, That's my ninth trip. And once more he climbs back up to the attic. Blondie and he look around the empty attic and she says cheerfully, Now this is more like it. This is the way an attic should look. And Dagwit replies, That was all stuff we'd never use again anyway. And then they go downstairs. Last picture of the row, Dagwit says, Now I'll call up the junkman and tell him to take it all away. And good riddance. Meanwhile, Cookie and Alexander are out in the back yard. First picture next row, looking through all the stuff Dagwit carried out. Cookie picks up a doll saying, Oh look, my old raggedy aunt doll. I can sew her arms back on. And Alexander picks out a baseball bat and a stuffed muskrat and says, Hey, they were going to throw my stuffed muskrat away. Blondie joins him and picks out a clothes dummy, which is what women use to hold their dresses when they're sewing them. And she exclaims, My goodness, was I this thin once? And they continue to rummage through the junk, taking out things that they decide to save. Last picture of the row, the three of them are climbing back up to the attic. And Alexander says, Hey, someday I might take a tire lessons. And Blondie says, I can recover this old lampshade. And they dump the stuff in the attic and dash down the ladder again. First picture next row, Blondie says, No, let's see what else there is we can use again. And they begin to rummage in the pile once more. A little later, the junkman gets there. Dagwood goes out in the back. But instead of all the junk in the yard, he sees nothing. And Dagwood shouts, Blondie! Here's the junkman. Where's all the stuff he should take away? He dashes back up to the attic again and sees the attic looking just the way it was in the first place. And he stares at it and groans, Oh, there's no place like home. Absolutely no place. Shall we read Uncle Remus now? Yes, I just love Uncle Remus. Very well then. Turn over the page and go past Buzz Sawyer, past Barney Google and Jungle Jim. Then turn over the page. And there on page six under Little Iodine is Uncle Remus and his tales of Brer Rabbit. Hippity hoppity, make it a habit to give us music for old Brer Rabbit. Uncle Remus says, One time Brer Rabbit got a letter and the creature was mighty curious about what was in it. Yes, Brer Rabbit comes into the post office and the postmaster says, The letter for Brer Rabbit from Georgia, U.A.C. Everyone turns in surprise. Brer Rabbit exclaims, For me? And tears it open, takes the letter out and begins to read. Suddenly he stops because he sees all the creatures standing around him trying to read it too. Brer Bear asks, What's in it? And Brer Buzzard asks, Yeah, what's it saying, Brer Rabbit? And Brer Postman, Who's it from? Brer Rabbit takes one look around at all the creatures and then shakes his head with a look on his face. It says, You never know. And then walks out of the post office as Brer Buzzard calls, Hey, Brer Rabbit, wait up, don't go yet. Last picture top row, Brer Rabbit walks home followed by all the creatures. Brer Buzzard follows and hauls. And what's the letter say, Brer Rabbit? Brer Bear? Do somebody get killed? Brer Possum? Good news or bad news? And Brer Rabbit refuses to tell. First picture bottom row, all the creatures have a conference and Brer Buzzard has a scheme and he says, Now listen, we'll get to Brer Buzzard every night. We'll get to Brer Buzzard every night. We'll get to Brer Buzzard every night. And Brer Bear says, Duh, us agrees. And Brer Coon says, And us is dependent on you, Brer Buzzard. So off they go to see if the scheme will get Brer Rabbit to show them the letter. Buy and buy, Brer Buzzard sticks his head in Brer Rabbit's shack and says, And Brer Rabbit, I has been elected to make you a proposition. Brer Rabbit replies, I've listened, Brer Buzzard. And buzzard answers, Now us reads the letter and you gets three licorice candies, two lucky charms, a genuine imitation jewel and 11 cents. And he throws the loot on the floor. Brer Rabbit smiles cheerfully and says, You read the letter. And he has the letter to Brer Buzzard who walks back to his friends and reads last picture. Limited time only. Special offer. And now, send 11, 11 dollars in stamps for a set of books on how to get rich. And as Brer Buzzard and his friends look very disgusted, Brer Rabbit smiles cheerfully and says, Keep reading, Brer Buzzard. And Uncle Rima says, Smart head in closed mouth is first cousin. Yes, I should say so. Well now it's time for Prince Valiant. Oh yes, and the leader has made those two kings that were having a war settle down and make peace. Yes, now let's see how everything ends. So here we go on the last page with Prince Valiant in the days of King Arthur. Eckert, Breckert, Graham Hulkin and Quince, music romantic for a fair, fair prince. King Hepatla, who had attacked the castle of King Agua and who could not enter it by force, has now come into the castle as a dinner guest. He had come here to capture the castle of Thule, and it failed. And now he's been forced to sit down and talk terms of peace. Naturally he wants the terms of peace to be such that he can return home without having everyone think he's a failure. As they sit at dinner, he alone is unhappy, for his vow to take Thule is unfulfilled. But last picture top row, Alita intends to fix that too, so everyone will be happy. An important document is set before the king. King Agua looks at the document, then smiles and hands it to King Hepatla. First picture next row saying, I hereby assign to King Hepatla the inner lands, the throne and kingdom of Thule. Alita claps her hands and squeals with delight, and says to King Hepatla, now you've kept your vow, and there'll be no more trouble between our lands. Then she hands him another parchment, which is a piece of paper, and says, now you can abdicate. Abdicate means that now he can sign the other paper, which returns the throne and kingdom of Thule back again to King Agua. But King Hepatla, last picture top row, grasps his title desperately, his brain really. He is tasted defeat, frustration and overpowering dose of feminine common sense. And now, try him. He stands there silently. Alita gives a signal, and first picture bottom row, some curtains parked. And two executioners are standing there with axes in their hands. And Alita's voice is saying, too bad you won't abdicate. Well, it's been nice knowing you. Hepatla smiles at this joke and takes up the quill for the first time since taking his vow he laughs. And then he turns to Alita saying, solemn statesman labor long months on treaties that can be broken in a minute. But you've shown me that simple friendliness and trust are permanent. And I, a defeated king, will forever remember your generosity. And I will also remember never to underestimate a woman's ruthless common sense. Well, Alita knew that Hepatla would feel bad going home the loser, so she decided on a plan to make everyone happy. She first had King Agua give Hepatla the paper saying that Hepatla had won the war in all the lands. Then she had him give King Agua another paper saying that he would give all the land back again to King Agua. And that way, if it looked to everyone that King Hepatla had won, and yet had been kind enough to give the land back. Oh, well, why does Alita open the curtains and show Hepatla those executions? Well, just in case Hepatla didn't want to do what she said, she wanted him to know that he couldn't get away with it. Oh, wasn't that a smart thing to do? Certainly was. Now, that's all the time I have. And now here's that nice man with something interesting to say. Well, honey, and all your boys and girls, I've got to go now. All right, Mr. Comic Weekly Man, but I'll be waiting for you next week. Okay, that's a date. At the date with all your boys and girls, be sure to meet me with our little friend Miss Honey next week when I read Puck the Comic Weekly. Or 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.