America's Funniest Comics #2

Bomby is a confident salesman tasked with moving vacuum cleaners through two tough neighborhoods—Dusty Avenue and Cobweb Lane—and he's convinced he can't miss. But the last house on Cobweb Lane proves to be anything but ordinary: its strange inhabitants keep stripping him bare instead of buying, leaving him baffled and determined to send in his boss Zomby to finish the job. When Zomby takes over, he discovers what Bomby couldn't: those "weird folks" aren't supernatural at all, just clever operators running a very different kind of business.

Puss and Pooch bounce from one disastrous job to another in this slapstick romp—from bike repair to theater doorman to candy maker—each gig ending in chaos and a hasty exit. Just when they land their dream position testing furniture for an easy hundred dollars a week, fate has other plans. A funny, fast-paced reminder that steady work isn't always in the cards for these two hustlers.

A guest at Rosie's Roost arrives looking for excitement, so Rosie arranges for Windy Wolf to stage a kidnapping to give her the thrills she craves—but when an unlikely hero steps in to save the day, the scheme spirals into chaos. This 1944 funny-animal romp from America's Funniest Comics delivers slapstick mayhem as plans collide and everyone learns you're careful what you wish for in Dead Pigeon Gulch.

Horsey Hooligan decides to fake an illness to escape his grueling work schedule, but his scheme spirals into chaos when a doctor arrives to treat him—complete with increasingly outlandish medical contraptions and an unexpected visit from a butcher with very different plans for the patient. This funny-animal romp mines comedy gold from Horsey's attempts to maintain his cover while the situation careens toward an outcome he definitely didn't anticipate.

King Looie's obsession with hoarding gold leads to trouble when his desperate tax-collector can't squeeze another coin from the kingdom's fed-up subjects—so the people demand answers about where all their money went. When a committee confronts the monarch about his lavish spending, his attempts to impress them with a grand display backfire spectacularly, leaving him with nothing but his pride and empty pockets.

Sappy "Happy" Hyena thinks he's being clever when a clock merchant shows him a sun-dial as the perfect timepiece—sturdy, accurate, and requiring no winding. But when he brings his bargain indoors and it stops working, he's convinced he's been swindled, never suspecting the real reason his purchase has failed him. A short, punchy lesson in why some solutions work better in theory than in practice.