Algie #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis is an anthology comic featuring humor stories centered on the teenage character Algie Adams. "Algernon's Automatic Laundry" depicts Algie's mishap when he attempts to use a new self-operating laundry machine that malfunctions catastrophically, destroying his house and competing with a neighbor's laundry service. "Gramps' Zero Hour" follows Algie's conversation with his grandfather Gramps about being a dismal failure—broke and unable to take his girlfriend Jennifer out—leading to Gramps sharing a story about his own first job where he and coworkers suggested digging a well but found no water. "Algie: Nurse to You" shows Algie's mother bringing in a visiting nurse for a preliminary checkup, after which Algie and his friends humorously debate whether they need a doctor or nurse and send the nurse away on house calls.
Algie lands a job at an automatic laundry to earn some quick cash, but his overzealous promise of speedy service sets off a chain reaction of disasters. When the laundry's machines can't keep up with the workload, Algie hatches a makeshift solution that spirals hilariously out of control, complete with runaway equipment and unintended competition. It's a wild ride that proves sometimes the cure is worse than the problem.
When Algie's constant mistakes at school finally get him called into Principal Piddle's office, the exasperated educator decides to teach the nervous boy a lesson about fear by swapping roles—Algie becomes the authority figure while Mr. Piddle plays the anxious student, with an expensive borrowed typewriter as their test subject. What starts as a demonstration in confidence quickly spirals into chaos as the machine becomes a instrument of mishap, leaving Mr. Piddle to discover firsthand just how contagious fear can be.
Algie springs an innocent game on Jennifer in the park—watch an apartment building and kiss her each time a light goes out—but his romantic scheme backfires when a citywide blackout turns his playful wager into an embarrassing public spectacle. This cheeky 1953 romp proves that sometimes the best-laid plans get derailed by circumstances entirely beyond your control.
When a visiting nurse arrives at school for routine checkups, the students—especially the boys—suddenly develop a suspicious number of "serious conditions" requiring immediate examination. But when the nurse and principal devise a scheme to thin out the overcrowded line, they discover that teenage ingenuity might just outmatch adult planning in this lighthearted tale of health class chaos.
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