Junior [Junior Comics] #16

Junior thinks he can save the $5 plumber's fee by fixing a leaky kitchen faucet himself—but his do-it-yourself scheme quickly spirals into waterlogged chaos and increasingly desperate cover-ups. Watch as one small drip becomes a mounting disaster that tests whether Junior and Deena can smooth things over before Mrs. Dawson discovers the truth.

Junior Hancock gets humiliated when his rival Tuffy Tompkins roughhouses with his girl Deena at a school gathering, and desperate to prove himself, he orders a muscle-building course from an ad. When his newfound confidence transforms him into the center of attention at the school picnic, Junior becomes arrogant and dismissive—until a letter reveals the terrible truth, and he learns a hard lesson about what actually matters. A sharp little morality tale about the difference between real strength and the kind that fades once you're not flexing.

Junior Hancock and his friend Deena take on a carnival midway, where beginner's luck seems to be on Deena's side—she wins prize after prize at every game they try. But as Junior attempts to show her the "right way" to play, his interference only makes things worse, and the increasingly frazzled carnival operators will do anything to get them to leave. What starts as a fun day at the fair spirals into chaos when Deena's winning streak continues no matter what Junior does to stop it.

Gwenny's frustrated with her boyfriend Goofy for being anything but romantic—he'd rather discuss extinct volcanoes than cuddle in a movie theater balcony. When her friend Deena suggests he needs to be more "wolfish," Goofy takes the advice to heart, perhaps a little too enthusiastically, leading to a clash that forces both of them to reconsider what they really want from each other.