 I'm the Comic Weekly Man, the Jolly Comic Weekly Man. And I'm here to read the funnest to your happy boys and the 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 put the Comic Weekly straight into your living room. Your friend, the Comic Weekly Man, the Jolly Comic Weekly Man. Little Miss Honey, how are you today? Oh, I'm very worried about several things. Oh, and what are they? Well, I'm worried about Flush because he's captured by the Giants. And I'm worried about Roy Rogers because one of the outlaws has escaped. And I'm worried about Rusty Rowley because Tex and Rusty have driven right in... Yeah, they're all in serious trouble today. Yes. So could we please quick read the comics so I can see what's happening to them? Well, yeah, certainly we can. You want to start right now? Yes, please. So please read the comics. Pock the Comic Weekly? Yes. 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, Bringing Up Father. Magic words for the music, please. Very well, my lady. A rigadoona-doona rig. Let's have a merry Irish jig. Today, Jigs wife Maggie has gone out and locked him in the house to make sure that he doesn't get a chance to go out. Second picture, Jigs looks out the window in size. Yeah, he might as well be in jail. No use trying to jump. It's two stories, I'll break my legs. Last picture, top row, a truck pulls up and stops beneath his window. Uh-oh. Now, where did the truck come from? So Jigs puts on his hat, first picture, second row, climbs out the window onto the truck. Easy now. I'm not as young as I used to be. Well, I don't know where I'm going, but at least I'm out of the house. Last picture, second row, the truck is out of town and is driving through a gigantic gate. Jigs sees large stone buildings with barred windows all around him. Uh-oh. Where am I? This place looks familiar. First picture, bottom row, the truck comes to a stop. Jigs climbs down off the truck and an armed guard holding a machine gun exclaims, Hey, what was you do riding on the top there? A wagon too crowded? You know, listen, how do I get out of here? That's what all the guys in here would like to know. And Jigs turns around, looks at the truck and sees a sign painted on it that reads State Prison Patrol Wagon. And the guard says, All right, listen, Bob, you can explain your story to the warden. Last picture, Jigs is in the cell playing cards with the prisoner who's wearing a striped uniform. And Jigs, who loves to play cards, smiles cheerfully and says to the guard at the door, Eh, you can tell the warden when he's finished to come in and join us. The guard says, Well, now, I'm off duty in a minute. Can I join in? And the prisoner who's playing with Jigs complains. Ah, jeez. No privacy in this place. Jigs was locked up in the house and he found that he was locked up in the jail. He did. But at least he thinks he's having more fun in jail than he would have at home alone. Yes, you remember, not the window at his house. Well, he's there now. And what surprised me is that he's enjoying himself. Yeah, it's all that, Jigs. He's some character. Yes, that's Jigs. He's some character. And there's another character that you're fond of that we might read next. Oh, I'll bet you it's Donald Duck. Let's turn over the page and go past little Idyne and Prince Val, who's in Ireland trying to see King Rory and is having a very difficult time there. Then turn over that page. And here we are with Donald Duck. Say the magic words with me. Squeeze them, squeeze them, squeeze the tick-a-tack. Let's have music to fit a quack-quack. Donald is looking at a calendar and he sees that it is vacation time. He says, My golly, this year we'll take a vacation in style. Last picture top row, he's at a travel bureau to select a place to go on his vacation. He says to the clerk, Show me some of your best tours, pal. I got itchy feet. First picture, second row, the clerk says, Oh, yes, yes, itchy feet. Let me see. Oh, here we are. A circular on Africa. Donald exclaims, Wild trip, $3,000. Wow! And don't forget, it includes a hunting license for one elephant. Uh, um, maybe something a bit closer to home. You see, I'm subject to home service. Oh, yes, certainly, certainly. Let me see. Second picture, Donald says, Uh, maybe I better see America first. Oh, good, good, good. Here's a luxury tour of the National Parks for $500. Uh, uh, sounds very interesting, pal. But, uh, would your skills may please? I gotta go home to set a mouse trap. Second picture, bottom row, Donald says, Second picture, bottom row, Donald's at home. He says to his nephews, Huey, Louie, and Dewey, Well, boys, how about going camping for our vacation? Yippee! Jean, swell! Okay, let's get back. That night, Donald is in his tent, ready to go to sleep. When he hears his nephews' voices coming from another tent. Sleep tight. Piker. Take one. Donald yells, You said you'd like a camping trip. Last picture, we see the two tents pitched in Donald's backyard. And now, Donald is sound asleep. And Louie, and Huey, and Dewey are sitting in the other tent. And Huey, hearing the snoring, says, Listen to him. I wish I knew where I could get 50 mosquitoes. Yeah, big deal. Some camping trip. Yeah. 15 feet from the back doorstep. We'll come play. Yeah, to be honest about it, I thought that's what he was going to do, too. And instead, they have to sleep in tents in their backyard. No, I'm afraid it is not, either. Well, now... Oh, now? Last week, they were all captured by that giant. Oh, yes, that's right. They were investigating the planet Titan, and they found themselves locked in a cave. And when they tried to escape, the giant scooped them into a big basket, and now they're prisoners. I wonder what will happen to them? Well, let's read now and find out. So, let's turn over page five, and here on page six is Flash Gordon. A riga-riga-doon-doons, ask them a task. Let's have music for heroic flash. Pilot explains, They were trapped, caught like a basket of fish by this dumb brute. Flash snorts, some dumb brute. He smokes us out of the cave, one by one, grabs our equipment and tosses us into this basket. He's dumb like a fox. Midas pulls his rocket pistol. Well, he didn't take all our weapons. I could get a lucky shot. He takes aim at the side of the basket and pulls the trigger. Suddenly, the basket is turned upside down, and the giant shakes them out of it. Flash says, Hey, hey, you're spilling us out. Yeah, no, we're really in for it. First picture, bottom row, as they sit up on the ground, the giant scoops up Midas. And shakes him until a pistol drops out of his hand. Well, there goes our last pistol. Last picture, Dale stares at the giant, who towers above them and says, He has our guns, our pistols, everything. We'll never see Earth again. Flash comforts her. All right, now take it easy, Dale. There must be a way out. And Midas says, Yeah, and I'm taking it. I'm going to run for it. Up to shake the pistol, loose. Yes. How can Flash and Dale ever get away from so powerful a person as that? Well, I'm sure I don't know. We'll have to wait and find out more about this next week. But now look across the page on page seven. There's the sword in the road. Oh, yes, and I'm anxious to read that because it's in the early days of England when Henry was the king. Yes, and Henry's sister, Mary Tudor, has fallen in love with a handsome captain of the guards named Charles Brandon. And Charles Brandon loves Mary Tudor, too. Yes, but the king wants her to marry the king of France. And he had ordered Mary to come to him so he could talk to her about it. But Mary wouldn't come and talk to the king and the king was furious. I wonder what he will do. Well, let's read now and find out. Here we go with the sword in the road. It's Mary, Mary, England, when knighthood was in flower, music to bewitch our story hour. And raged by his sister's refusal to meet the French ambassadors with their marriage proposal from King Louis, Henry charges into her chambers. The king is followed by the ambassador from France. He stops before Mary who was sitting on her bed. The king glowers. Last picture top row, Mary says she understands that the gentlemen of France come with an offer of marriage from their king. First picture bottom row, the French ambassador kneels and hands Mary a beautiful and valuable necklace. My August muster sends these little token of his love for his queen to be. Mary looks at the necklace and then says go home and tell your silly old master it is thus I regard his suit and tosses the jewels to the floor. King Henry roars. By the soul of my father you will marry Louis of France within a fortnight or I'll have you whipped to death on Smithfield, Pillary. Later, Mary sends for Charles Branton, the guardsman for whose sake she has spurned the queen's crown. Instead, Brandon's friend Cascadon answers her summons. Mary looks at him in surprise. Last picture, Cascadon says, Your Highness, Charles has resigned his place at court and is off to Bristol there to take skip for the new world. Yes, I'm afraid he believes that he has no chance of ever marrying Mary and so wants to go away someplace so we can forget her. But look at Mrs. Ifrahard is broken. Yes, she does. I wonder what she'll do now that the king is angry at him. Oh, my, I just wish she could stop Charles Branton before he leaves. Do you think she will? Well, we'll find out about that next week. Now it's time to pick up the first page of the second section. Yes, and there's today. Well, I'll read that in just a moment. But before I do, let's listen to this nice man. 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. But I'm a food, I'm a fum, zim, zim, zombie. Konjimi music for Dagwood and Blondie. Blondie says... Dagwood, let's go next door and call on the Woodleys. Fine, Blondie. I'm in the mood for a game of bridge. As they go to the door, Dagwood says, well, go around the back way. It's shorter. And at the Woodley House, Herb Woodley says to his wife, Tutsi. Hey, Tutsi, come on. Let's drop in on the bump says for a chat. What do you say? Good idea, Herbert. I was bored with my book. First picture, second row, they go out the door. Herb says, we'll go around the front. I want to turn off the hose. Oh, I just love these little neighborly visits. Two minutes later, the Woodleys are ringing the bumpstead's front door. But, of course, there's no answer. How do you like that? They won't answer the bell, because they know it's us. Oh, I'm sure they're home, Herb. And at the same moment, Blondie and Dagwood are at the back door of the Woodley House, last picture, second row, knocking on their door. And, of course... They don't answer. Dagwood exclaims angrily, they're playing possum because they saw us coming. Getting no answer, Dagwood and Blondie dash home. Into the house, through the back door, Dagwood dashes for the phone, first picture, third row. Oh, Dagwood, forget it. No, I'm going to phone them to prove they're at home. At this moment, the Woodleys have come in their front door. Herb dashes for the phone. Well, maybe they really were out, Herbert. Well, I'm going to phone and find out. I'm going to find out. And last picture, third row. Dagwood, who has tried to get the Woodleys in the phone, holds up the receiver to Blondie, and she hears... The busy signal. Dagwood thunders. That proves they're home. I'm going over and teach that guy a lesson. First picture, bottom row, Herb, who has gotten the busy signal and the bumpstered line, slams down the receiver and thunders. They're home. Their line is busy. Well, I'm going over and let him know what I think of it. Oh, bumpster, there you are. I'll... So, Woodley, I had me, will you? Well, I'll... There you'll what? I'll knock your... You'll knock what? Later, the girls dash out of the house shouting. Boys! Last picture, the four of them are playing cards. Tootsie and Blondie, and Herb, who has a black eye, and Dagwood, who has a black eye, and Dagwood, who has a black eye, and a lump on a head. Tootsie says, I enjoy these little evenings together so much. And Blondie smiles. Let's do it more often. And Herb says, and Dagwood echoes. Four hearts. Nobody could catch anybody else at home, and yet everybody meant well. Yes, but I'm afraid the men jump to conclusions too quickly. Yes, they must have. Yes, they must have. What's conclusions? Oh, making up your mind, and Dagwood and Herb made theirs up too soon. Yes, they did. Yes. Well, now let's turn over the page. And look, here's Roy Rogers. Oh, he captured two of those crooks who had stolen the railroad payroll. But the third outlaw, Ham Hawks, escaped. And he met Mr. Dangerfield. That's the owner of the carnival. And he stopped Dangerfield and said he was going to help him get away from Roy Rogers. I wonder how he will do that. Well, let's read now and find out. Here we go with Roy Rogers, king of the cowboys. Ah, yip-a-yo. Now here we go with Roy and Trigger. Ah, yip-a-yo. Hawks turns his horse loose. I'd get up there. Hawks' horse gallops away down the trail. I'm riding with you, Dangerfield. It's slower on that wagon of yours, but if Rogers trails me, my chaos will decoy him in the wrong direction. Ham Hawks, you are hampering my efforts to locate Wildwood O'Dowd, the star performer in my carnival. Ah, shut up. Now, listen, we're heading for Red Horse Bridge, where the loot from the railroad robbery is stashed. Uh, uh, I yield to your wishes. Meanwhile, Roy is on his way to Red Horse Bridge and is nearing it last picture-top row. I have a hunch that Ham Hawks will be here soon, Trigger. He'll be surprised to find out that his pal Hard Rock Higgins told me where the money's hidden. Roy rides out to the covered bridge, pulls himself out of the saddle, first picture-bottom row, then climbs up on the beams. Okay, Trigger, get out of sight now. It seems funny that Hard Rock told me about this hideout. Guess he didn't want Ham to get away with all the loot. Roy finds a little room above the bridge. He climbs into it. Now let me see. Yeah, he said the money is hidden in that barrel. He heads toward the barrel, and suddenly a trap door opens and Roy falls to the bridge below. Last picture, Dangerfield and Ham Hawks ride up to the bridge. Dangerfield rains in and sees the body lying on the bridge. It's my bosom friend, Roy Rogers, and he's hurt. Hawks starts to climb out, gun in hand. Yeah. He fell through the trap door. We rigged for snoopers, Dangerfield. And now I'll finish the job. He doesn't know it. Now he's lying unconscious, and Ham Hawks will be standing over him with a gun in his hand. Oh, I hope that karate, Dangerfield, will get some gumption for a change in help, Roy. So do I. Well, we'll find out next week if he does. Now let's go to the very last page of Pucked the Comic Weekly, and here's Dick's Adventures. Yes, and you remember that Dick is in the early days of America working on a newspaper office in California. News came to the little frontier town that a gold mine has been discovered. And everybody in the town just started going crazy and started to go off to Dick for gold themselves. Yes, they all thought they'd get rich quick. And Dick said he liked to go too, but editor Campbell didn't want to. I wonder if he will go. Well, let's read now and find out. Here we go with Dick's Adventures. Say the magic words with me. Dick and Campbell are walking down the street on their way home from working all night on the newspaper. Campbell doesn't believe that gold has really been found. And as they turn a corner, they meet a mob of men hurrying out of town. So long, Campbell! We're on our way to get rich. Yeah, we'll see you with gold dollars. First picture, second picture, we'll see you with gold dollars. First picture, second row, Campbell and Dick look down the street. They see shopkeepers nailing up their doors, windows being boarded up, stores being closed as the men go off to prospect for gold. And as Campbell sees the whole town being emptied, he says, where the whole city's gone crazy, even the kids. They go to their boarding house and find it completely deserted. The cook is putting on his coat ready to leave. He yells, Fix your own meals! I'll be a millionaire in a week! You see, Mr. Campbell, everybody's going. Let's us go, too. They can't all be wrong. Last picture, second row, Dick's insistence wins out. Though still unconvinced that the rivers of California are flowing the gold, Campbell decides to see what it's all about with his own eyes. Dick urges, Come on, let's get a couple of horses. Last picture, we're on the road with Dick and Campbell. A long train of wagons and families around their way to seek for gold. But every horse had been bought or stolen, so Dick and Campbell must travel on foot. Campbell's not happy. Dick says, I can't all be wrong. Campbell snorts. They're fools. But I'm going to prove it. Yes, and at last Dick and Campbell have joined them. I wonder who's right, Dick or Mr. Campbell? Well, maybe we'll find that Dick and Mr. Campbell are both a little bit right. That's usually the case. I guess so. Yes. Well, I'll look below Dick's adventures. There's Rusty Riley. Oh, yes, and you remember Rusty and Tex were taking a very valuable racehorse named Silver Lad back to the Milestone farm. Yes, a man named Velvet Cain didn't want the horse to get to the Milestone farm, so he sent two of his men, Porky and Scrub, to see to it the horse doesn't reach Milestone before Cain consigned a contract selling his horses to a wealthy South American. And I'm worried because Cain's men set up a detour sign leading off the road and Tex came off the road and ended up by a little bit of a shack in the mountains. And there isn't any place to turn the truck around and get back on the road again. I wonder what Tex will do. Well, let's read down, find out. Here we go with Rusty Riley. Gallop and run till the road is dusty. Give us music for us horse and Rusty. Mr. Miles is worried because he hasn't heard from Tex. And at the mountain cabin, outside under the trees, Velvet Cain's man Scrub is talking to Porky. Well, I think it's going to be hard to talk that big cowpoke out of chop and the clearing here tonight. I'm getting the van turned around. How about me tapping him on the noggin, huh? No. Vel's instructions are to do no beating up. Now, you get back to the bridge. If he gets turned around, I'll blow two blasts on the jalopy horn. Okay, Scrub. I guarantee you won't crush that bridge after I fire that dynamite. A short time later, Tex and Rusty, last picture top row, have gone out in the darkness. And Tex has begun to chop down some of the trees to make a clearing to turn the truck around so he can get back on the highway again. Rusty says, Golly, Tex, you sure are in a hurry to get home. Wouldn't it be better to do this clearing by daylight? The rest of you isn't going to tell you. But Mr. Miles has had some bad luck financially. Can't explain right now. But he stands to lose Milestone unless we get silver-lad by Lexington tomorrow. A few miles away, at a sheriff's office, a farmer comes in carrying the detour sign that Cain's men had moved. Hey, Tom, I found this detour sign set up on the highway where that dead-end dirt road porcs off. What's the idea? State road ain't closed, eh? Sheriff replies, Well, that sign was stolen from that washer to trow it around. Say, now, ain't there a cabin somewhere up there at road? I was just thinking, Bert, it wouldn't be a bad gimmick for a hijacker to get a truck to go up that dirt roadways. I got a mind to take a couple of deputies and investigate. Oh, gun sheriff, you're smart as one of them private eyes. Meanwhile, at the Junior League Horse Show in Kentucky, in the barn assigned to the Milestone farm, Mr. Miles enters. Oh, uh, I don't know. When that South American gent was here, he thinks you're bluffing about Silverlare. I think he's about ready to sign a contract with Velvet Cain. That last picture, back in the mountains, porcupine kneeling near a plunger with a line connected to the dynamite that's been planted beneath the bridge, says, Eh, they stopped chopping. Must have cleared a turnaround. As soon as I hear two blasts in the barn, I think it's a good idea to take a look around and as soon as I hear two blasts in the jalopy horn, down goes this plunger. Oh, that means if he pushes on the plunger, the bridge will be blown up, doesn't it? That's exactly what it means. And if he blows up the bridge, Tex and Rusty will never be able to get back on the highway. That's right. And if Tex doesn't get on the highway with a truck, Mr. Miles will lose the order to sell horses to the South Americans. And even lose his farm. Well, we'll find out about that next week. Now that's all the time I have. But before I go, here's that nice fellow with some more interesting information. Honey and all your boys and girls, I've got to go now. All right, Mr. Comic Weekly next week. Okay, that's the date. And 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. For I'm the Comic Weekly man, the jolly Comic Weekly man. The funniest to your 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.