Ken Maynard #3

In "Ken Maynard and the Pied Piper of the West! Chapter I The Animal Invasion!", a mysterious pied piper arrives in a frontier town plagued by nightly rabbit raids, offering a strange solution with nothing but his flute. As Ken Maynard investigates the bizarre invasions, he must decide whether to trust a man whose music seems too good to be true.

Jeeter needs just a nickel for a cup of coffee, but when his talking horse Ya-Ta-Ta generously offers up a hundred-dollar bill, the cowboy refuses to break it—launching the two into a hilarious battle of wits as Ya-Ta-Ta questions whether Jeeter's smart enough to hold down a job. This quick-witted humor piece plays on the talking horse's exasperation with his perpetually broke and dimwitted companion, delivering joke after joke as Jeeter somehow stumbles through every intelligence test with absurd logic that somehow… almost works.

When Boxcar Benny insists his worn-out shoes are patent leather because the leather is all gone and his feet are pattin' the ground, this 1951 western-frontier humor strip delivers exactly the kind of groan-worthy wordplay that makes collecting Ken Maynard comics worthwhile. It's a quick, punchy gag that proves sometimes the best laughs come from the simplest setups.