 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 little more sunny how are you today I'm just wonderful because spring is here everything's turning green the birds are singing school soon be over flowers are beginning to flower blossoms are beginning to blossom and and butterflies are beginning to butter yes you certainly are happy aren't you if you'll just read me the funnies it'll make everything perfect Puck the comic weekly very well I will in just a moment but before I do let's listen to this nice man oh with Puck the comic weekly and on the top of the first page which we will read right away magic words for the music please very well my lady six guns blazing as he thunders along give us music for hop along rescued from the bog by the sheriff hoppy and his pals have ridden to the tax assessor's office to get vain the brains of the gang stealthily hoppy enters the office he sees vain going through the files vain says you know is that you slot hoppy replies not this time mr. Prentice vain alias PB vain whirls around first picture next row when Stammer's Cassidy I thought you were dead slowton his boys did their best but luckily the sheriff showed up in time to pull us out of the oil bog and California says man is for your paid killers are running like scared rabbits with a party breathing down her nicks vain Stammer's my paid killers I don't understand hoppy continues first picture next row you understood a rich oil vein when you saw it you found you couldn't steal the claim so you decided to use Don Felipe to force the issue well now the game's over California says yeah we've come for the boy vain says are you in gentlemen you'll find him in that vault I'd open it and cover him lucky vain opens the door to the vault first picture fourth row hoppy in California go into the vault as lucky stands guard lucky turns his head aside for a second quickly vain picks up a big dictionary and throws it at lucky quickly steps outside and slams the door of the vault closed he picks up his box of money throws a lamp on the floor sets the office of fire first picture bottom row then runs outside he leaves in his buggy and drives off saying now hit for the old quarry works and silence down pity pay the last witness against me the building is on fire and hoppy and his friends are locked in a safe how will they ever get out that is that dangerous situation I only hope that the safest fireproof so they won't be burned to death and now that hoppy isn't free that mean man's going to get rid of Felipe and there'll be nobody to rescue you next week we might have very exciting things happening that'll turn the tables on mr. vain well I certainly hope so cuz this is situation don't give up in dismay remember hoppy is a hero and maybe he'll find a way but now what I think you better read Prince Valiant because I'm sure he's on page three well let's look and see you're right he is Prince Valiant page three and you remember last week that poor boy Arf froze his feet when they crossed the mountain yes and they came to a little town at the foot of the mountains and the doctor told Val that he'd have to leave Arf there for a long time and the Prince Val has to continue his journey so I wonder what he did well let's read right now and find out here we go with Prince Valiant to the days of King Arthur heck it break it gray mullkin and quince music romantic for a fair fair prince Val is faced with a problem first picture he's saying to his friends Arf's feet were frozen crossing the pass even now he's fighting for his very life yet we have a mission to complete Rufus and Eagle agree a quest is a quest so they go to bid our farewell last picture top row telling him they must continue their errand but they promise to return when the work is finished Arf understands and bravely nods his head even though he hates to be left behind first picture next row Val leaves a princely sum of money with the doctor to make sure of his young squires care and with all arrangements made Val and his friends prepare to continue their journey all the guide from the monastery is no longer needed now that he has shown Val the way across the mountains and he turns homework once more to pit his strength and skill against the perils of the past with its bitter cold its avalanches and its chasms last picture the roll Val Eagle and Rufus speed on their way the old Roman roads are good the weather is not and first picture bottom row they reach the city of Rome and through the mist and rain see that the city is a place of ruin scars of the vandals visits still visible ruin everywhere about them they find an inn in the city and their dismount preparing to spend the night next morning last picture the sun is shining the world looks brighter and Val announces let's away to the bizarre and replace our travel stain garments with Raymond befitting ambassadors of through a bizarre was a name used many years ago for a store where you could buy almost anything yes the barbarians were cruel people who didn't respect anything that was good or nice I think we will I certainly won't miss that we waited a long time for them to get there mm-hmm well now while we're waiting for next week how about reading Donald duck oh please very well and turn over the page and here he is on page five and here we go with Donald duck say the magic words with me squeeze them squeeze them squinty ticket jack let's have music to better quack quack Donald loads a ladder in his car and jumps into the car and drives off when Donald stops he's at the city park he takes the ladder out of the car puts it against a lamp post climbs the ladder screws the light bulb from the lamp post in the last picture top row climbs down the ladder first picture bottom roll picks up the ladder carries it to another lamp post sets the ladder up climbs up the ladder and unscrews the light bulb from the other lamp post climbs down the ladder puts the ladder in the car and drives home when we see Donald again it's evening he's all dressed up in a sporty checkered jacket smart hat and his squirting cologne all over himself last picture Donald is with his girl Daisy in the park on the bench and neither of the street lights are on and Daisy says my it's done and Donald says cheerfully like romantic huh it's yes this way no one will see him sitting on the bench with his girl and then he won't be bashful about holding her hand no how would you like to skip to me quickly and since you found them we'll read them right away so here we go with Dagwit and Blondie Ramaphoo Ramapham Zim Zim Zambi come to me music for Dagwit and Blondie alarm clock rings waking Dagwit up he shuts off the alarm saying oh boy Sunday morning I can turn off the alarm and sleep as long as I like but just as he snuggles down again Blondie asks before you go back to sleep dear will you feed the pups and let them out Dagwit puts on his bathrobe and toddles down the stairs last picture top roll Alexander who's in his pajamas calls on your way up up will you please bring us some cinnamon toast and milk and Dagwit thinks first picture next row Dagwit is setting out the dog's food and he says no I can get back in bed and go to sleep what a delicious thought he gives the toast and milk to Alexander and cookie and just as he's about to climb into bed Alexander calls well thanks for the toast and milk pop whereupon Blondie sits up and says in bed I'll have orange juice egg toast and coffee and Dagwit thinks puts on his bathrobe and trots downstairs again last picture the roll he's frying eggs and says well might as well make my own breakfast too while I'm first picture next row after having his own breakfast he hands Blondie a tray with hers saying cheerfully no go back to sleep and Blondie says you're a darling takes off his bathrobe climbs into bed and he's just going to snuggle down when Alexander runs in saying hey pop mr. Whittler he's downstairs he wants to borrow something and Dagwit thinks and shouts tell him to take whatever he wants a few minutes later Dagwit hears an awful racket outside and first picture bottom row he sits up in bed and yells he jumps out of bed dashes downstairs out the door and he grabs the lawn mower from Herb Woodley gives it a mighty swing and hits Herb Woodley on the head with it he's back in bed again he's been trying to go to sleep finally he sits up and snarls thinking about how much it'll cost to repair the lawn and Blondie says yes it looks like Dagwit's Sunday has been spoiled and I think that bathrobe looks so silly I'll read that in just a moment but first here's that nice man again with something interesting to say oh here we go again with Puck the comic weekly and on the first page of the second section at the bottom Roy Rogers king of the cowboy magic words for the music please a yippie-yo now here we go with Roy and trigger a yippie-yo Hawkins succeeded in stomping they stampede to the cattle they went off to look for glib mason a citizen of raw hide friendly to dole full leaving Wildwood and her steer blackjack to watch the herd Stogie Grimes the outlaw who escaped from Roy earlier captured Wildwood and blackjack and has taken them to an abandoned logging camp he locks Wildwood up inside the shack but who should ride up but live Mason he dismounts and greets Stogie in a friendly way Stogie says to him third picture top row live Mason well I grabbed the gallon or critter like you said boss live Mason answers good when Roy Rogers has been trailing me since I slipped away from the herd get your rifle quick meanwhile Roy who has been following Mason's track says to trigger Mason's trail eats that old log and camp trigger I have a hunch that promoter stampede at our hurt and also knows what happened to Wildwood and blackjack last picture top row Mason leads Stogie Grimes over to the edge of the cliff saying Rogers pale Hawkins is driving the herd to raw hide alone we gotta stop him Grimes replies yeah well first we got to take care of Rogers it goes on first picture bottom row we'll make plenty Mason you promoted money to finance the trail drive and then you're rustle the very steers you buy for the folks in Roy Mason sees Roy coming up the road below and he says quiet Rogers is entering the ravine I got an idea we'll make this look like an accident Roy rides up the bottom of the cliff sees Mason's horse and says hey that's Mason's horse trigger he can't be far away I'll go up the bank and have a look so he gets off trigger and starts to climb up the bank directly below a flat car loaded with logs at this moment Stogie says to Mason hurry cut the ropes he's coming up the bank Mason cuts the ropes quickly the last picture the logs roll off the flat car thunder down poured Roy as Mason says stand back Grimes Rogers will be crushed to a pulp unless Roy thinks of something to save himself but what could he do I don't know we'll just have to wait till next week to find out I know but that's one of the things that makes the funnies exciting yes but let's go to flash Gordon then before you die oh well let's see you're right here oh and yes I love because flash is on the moon and I've always wanted to go to the moon yes flash has gone to the moon to find out why the meteors which had been exploding on earth had been dropping so regularly and they discovered that the beatleman on the moon had been shooting them mate and made meteors at the earth and last week flash put their machine out of order and then flash and his friends hid with the beatleman who became their friend and I wonder what's going to happen to let's find out right now so here we go with flash Gordon regga regga dune dune saskam attach let's have music for heroic flash flash in his party watching all is their atom blast wrecks the cannon from which flaming meteors were hurtling from the moon to the earth beetle like moon man poor angrily out of their burrows to find out what's happened last picture top row as the beatleman swarmed toward the space rocket flash freezes captive moon man and orders him to keep his people away from the ship tell them to stay where they are or shoot a warning ray blast emphasizes flashers command first picture bottom row flash and his friends scramble into their space rocket flash says we can't hold them off very long we'll fake a retreat hide the ship and then come back later quickly they enter the ship and take off just as the beatleman close in around it the beatleman dance and try as the rocket roars away but in the tunnel entrance a mysterious figure seems grimly concerned it's an earth man who looks through his telescope at the disappearing rocket last picture had brights request last circle stored the dark side of the moon bright busy himself taking pictures so he'll have a photographic record of the weird moonscape until flash warns we're heading into icy night better turn back to keep an eye on our playmates he has a gun just like flash he's an earth man I'm sure yes well I hope flash gets wise to him in a hurry well next week we really will have something to look forward to in flash Gordon because this is something flash hasn't expected no well now let's get over to the next page quickly because dick is with George Washington's army and we want to see what's happening to him yes he's at Valley Forge spending the cold cold winter there with the American soldiers and he must be going to have a battle soon so quick read it all right here we go with Dick's adventures and say the magic words with me a regular backpack is it let's have music for adventure the terrible winter is over sergeant gunner Hayes dick's friend confides joyfully to him hey wonderful news my wife Molly's on her way here for a visit dick Molly Molly pitcher sergeant Hayes smiles at dick and answers is her nickname dick Molly bring the picture her folks used to call her when she was little hey how did you know dick says nothing that just goes wisely about his business last picture top row suddenly that night orders come to strike camp at once and March dick groans oh your Molly you'll never find us now sergeant Hayes laughs hey I guess you don't know my Molly no time at all the army's on the March first picture next row because an immense British force under General Clinton the Vivo act of Monmouth, New Jersey dick says we're going to attack before they have a chance to move on back begins at dawn all through the next day furious battle of Monmouth rages in unbearable heat it is covered with grind burned with gunpowder Washington himself rides through the Rhine rallying his exhausted troops new strength flows into the man when they see their brave commander cheering them on and they fight with redoubled fury and first picture bottom row sergeant Hayes shouts Molly dick turns to see a young girl in silicon ruffles coming toward them it's Molly pitcher he tells them it took a long time to find them and now that she's here she wants help man need water to cool their parts thirsty throats and to cool the hot cannon so back and forth under fire Molly runs with a broken pitcher to a nearby brook and dick hears himself shouting hey Molly bring the pitcher Molly pitcher then sergeant Hayes is struck by a shot from the enemy and falls to the ground wounded and Molly last picture springs in to take his place at the cannon and fights beside dick until the battle is won was he was a great heroine yes Molly pitcher was a very famous woman patriot oh I'm sure we will you know she helped win that battle we will and now look right underneath dick is rusty Riley and remember a terrible thing happened last week yes that mean man Smith drove the truck that Rusty and Tex were in across the bridge and then he set the bridge on fire and ran away yes and Rusty and Tex are stranded in the old lumber camp and can't get out but one thing that doesn't know is that the plans that he had stolen the factory slipped out of his pocket and Rusty has them now but he's apt to go back after them so let's go and see what happens with rusty Riley say the magic words with me Gallup and run to the road is dusty give us music for his horse and rusty first picture as Rusty looks at the bridge which has fallen into the river he says golly Tex the bridge is nothing but smoking runes how we're ever going to get away from here Tex replies well you and I might find a way cross that gourds but we could never get big blaze over gee Wilkins takes what we're gonna do we write off I can't say rusty but one thing I know I'll never leave blaze here I'm responsible and somehow I'm gonna get him home whatever we do we better do it fast because that home brie sure to find out that those secret plans ain't in the back of that picture golly you're right Tex and when he does he'll be back sure last picture top row as Rusty looks at the huge logs lying around the lumber camp he says Tex I was just thinking those big logs must have been brought here somehow and I don't think that bridge we came over would have been strong enough yeah I see what you're getting at did shake a lot even under our van yeah we must be another way so they walk through the camp looking around first picture bottom row they see railroad tracks rusty exclaims hey wait a second Tex how about these tracks they must go somewhere by jingle rusty I think you got something there come on they lead around behind that shed quickly they walk along the tracks rusty stops look Tex another bridge Texas thoughtfully oh bridge ain't quite the word rusty I'd call it a trestle I'm afraid it ain't much help we can't walk big blaze cross that thing rusty looks back the other way and says well in the other direction the track runs right into a building I wonder what's in there he runs down the tracks goes into the shed where the tracks end and finds a train engine rusty exclaims hey Tex come here yes if Tex can run that engine well I'm afraid that's another thing we'll have to wait until next week to find out well don't sound so disappointed you've got lots of other comics you can read all during the week and don't forget you can enjoy yourself with a comic weekly corner oh yes and I can read Snuffy Smith and the Phantom and the Lone Ranger and of course you can now that's all the time I have but before I go here's that nice man with some more interesting information all your boys and girls they gotta go now 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 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