Ernie Comics #23

The lead story "Ernie's Joke-Fest" is a collection of humorous short anecdotes featuring characters like Ernie, a teacher asking to borrow a geometry exam, Orville riding a bus with his head stuck in his hands, a store owner's sign offering credit to seventy-five-year-olds with parents, and Colonel Cornpone's "television periscope" burglar alarm invention that lights up when intruders are detected in different rooms. The issue also includes various gag stories, such as Lily Belle catching her boyfriend trying to perform figure skating, deaf spinsters playing bridge, and a girl named Kewpie finding Orville wrapped in a bath towel wearing a high hat because "nobody ever visits" him.