Jingle Jangle Comics #2

The youthful yodler sells weather by the yard from his mountain home until a three-and-a-half peck bushelman and a young idea arrive seeking a meal, setting off a delightfully nonsensical chain of events involving a mysterious zither, a journey through blind alleys and drug stores, and an encounter with a piano-tuner along the way. George Carlson's wonderfully absurdist tale spins wonder, wordplay, and visual gags into ten pages of pure imaginative chaos that rewards the reader who surrenders to its dream-logic premise.

In this 1943 Jingle Jangle Comics tale, young Freddy’s kindness toward the creatures of the wood puts him at odds with his father’s warning: “A fox is a lone wolf.” When Freddy encounters a solitary wolf who seems to have other plans, his good nature is put to the test in a tense, quiet moment that sets the stage for something unexpected.

When mischievous Hortense stumbles into Chessville riding on a magical knight, she finds herself caught up in the kingdom's chess-themed chaos—complete with a missing queen, a scheme to pass her off as royalty, and knights in pursuit. Her wild adventure through this topsy-turvy realm of puns and nonsense draws her deeper into the kingdom's peculiar politics, where nothing quite works the way it should. Will Hortense survive the royal ball and make it back home in one piece?

In a delightfully absurd twist of history, young Tommy Squawk sets sail in 1492 to prove the world is triangular—only to cross paths with Christopher Columbus heading the opposite way. Columbus, ever the diplomat, asks Tommy to deliver his regards to Queen Elizabeth, setting off a chain of hilariously anachronistic adventures in Europe, where Tommy teams up with unlikely allies to take on the formidable Hitlerat and his cronies.