Kathy #8
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeKathy #8 is an anthology issue containing multiple stories. One story follows a group of children lost in the woods who discover a "Pup's Oasis" serving Dubble Bubble gum. Another features Bingo, a young woman whose blind date takes her on a wild car ride that ends in disaster, after which her father gives her a beefsteak dinner as compensation. A third story shows Kathy working at a soda fountain where she attempts to win over the owner's patronage by proving herself useful, ultimately impressing the customers and earning praise for her work ethic.
Kathy develops a serious crush on Monsieur René, the new French teacher, leaving her boyfriend Hank in the dust—but when she finally gets a date with the charming Continental, his so-called sophistication and romance quickly reveal themselves as self-centered rudeness and laziness. By the time René abandons her with a flat tire in the rain, Kathy's starry-eyed infatuation has completely evaporated, though her eye may already be wandering toward the school's new Spanish teacher.
Kathy receives word of a mysterious package waiting at the post office—and her birthday excitement sends her racing against closing time to pick it up! With help from her brother Hank, she finally hauls the enormous box home, but getting it through the door proves to be quite the comedy of errors. When she finally tears it open, the contents deliver a punchline she never saw coming.
When Leroy convinces Bingo to take his cousin Sally on a blind date, Bingo shows up at the soda shop eager to meet a cute redhead—only to discover his date isn't quite what he expected. This 1951 humor story from *Kathy* follows the mismatched pair through an increasingly chaotic evening of misunderstandings, bad manners, and mounting expenses that neither can quite manage.
When snobbish Marcella Van Horn mocks Kathy's scrappy dog Gyp and flirts with Hank to boot, Kathy's determined to prove her pup can beat Marcella's fancy Emperor at the upcoming Kennel Club Show. But Gyp has other ideas—he's more likely to cause chaos than win ribbons, and Kathy's desperate training schemes keep backfiring spectacularly. It all comes down to one wild moment at the show that might just change everyone's mind about what makes a real champion.
Kathy needs cash for a new pair of stockings after a spill on campus, so she applies for a waitress job at the school lunchroom—only to find herself competing with another girl for the same position. When the boss decides to pit them against each other in a trial run, Kathy's competitor resorts to sabotage, but a fortuitous accident with a spicy salad impresses a visiting Mexican educator and wins Kathy the job.
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