Dexter Comics #3

When eccentric Uncle Middleton arrives for a visit, Dexter's parents remind him to be patient with their wealthy but prankster relative—after all, there's an inheritance at stake. But Uncle Middleton's endless practical jokes, from electric handshakes to fake cream pies, test Dexter's patience to the breaking point, and a late-night accident sends everything spiraling in an unexpected direction. This 1948 humor tale finds plenty of laughs in the collision between a joker's antics and a teenager's fraying nerves.

A young woman heading to a masquerade ball dreams of meeting someone special—but when a famous singer shows up in an unexpected disguise, a case of mistaken identity turns the evening into hilarious chaos. Skitch tries to help his pal Mick Demoan crash the party unnoticed, but a spirited girl in a Scarlett O'Hara costume keeps mixing up which masked man is which, with consequences neither boy quite anticipated.

When Dexter's romantic troubles with a girl named Jill leave him brooding at his garage job, two armed crooks commandeer a car from the lot during a holdup—only to find the lovestruck teen already sitting in the back seat. What starts as a day of heartbreak turns into something far more dangerous when Dexter finds himself caught between the criminals and his boss's ire, leading to a climactic confrontation that neither the crooks nor anyone else quite expected.