Famous Funnies #32

Dickie Dare and Dan Flynn set sail for Tahiti at the invitation of Dan’s old friend "Cranky Joe" Hatch, who claims to have found a bed of enormous black pearls. As they journey, a sudden squall lashes the deck, and just as the storm clears, they spot a small rowboat adrift—containing a girl.

Scorchy Smith and Gus stumble upon Brook Edmundson Patterson unconscious, the latest victim of the deadly Gas Fiend. When the villain flees in a stolen airplane and meets a fatal end, a shocking revelation unfolds: the Gas Fiend was Brook’s long-lost father, Colonel Hummel, who has left her a vast inheritance of plantations, coastal holdings, and turpentine forests.

In a lighthearted 1937 slice of everyday humor, Tim Dugan grumbles about the latest fad of standing to eat—only to take a walk and find himself exasperated by kids zipping by on roller skates. He spots his wife Ma Dugan and daughters Dixie Dugan and Tim Dugan skating down the sidewalk, but when Ma loses her balance, the whole trio tumbles comically to the ground.

When Nutsy Squirrel starts tossing rotten nuts at The Skipper, the sailor retaliates by visiting Henrietta Hen with a basket of unhatched eggs—only to unleash a very different kind of chaos on the mischievous squirrel.

In a brief, taut adventure from 1937, Connie Kurridge finds herself caught in a tense moment when a threatening letter and a mysterious phone call send her into a panic—only to discover her "kidnapping" was a surprise test drive from a car salesman.

Mickey Finn stumbles upon a stray dog that belongs to the overly refined Miss Asprinwald, whose pampered pet soon grows too much to handle. After Mickey returns the dog without accepting a reward, the creature escapes back to his beat—where it’s clearly not meant to be.