Li'l Tomboy #101
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Lurid Doll," Li'l Tomboy receives a doll from her aunt that she considers too fancy and refined for her tastes. When she tries to get rid of it by claiming she was lost while playing with it, the story spirals into complications involving a newspaper editor, a police officer, and rumors about her becoming a member of a fancy club. After several weeks pass and the situation escalates, Li'l Tomboy attempts to manage the chaos by creating a fake family album, only to face further trouble when she must entertain a visiting society woman at her home.
When a guest unexpectedly arrives for a nap, Li'l Tomboy discovers his toupee while cleaning—and then scrambles through a frantic chase involving a crow to get it back on his head before he wakes up. A six-page romp full of slapstick mishaps and close calls that tests just how quietly a cleanup job can get.
Lil' Tomboy receives a doll from Aunt Tilly and seems ready to embrace her feminine side—at least that's what her parents think when they catch her borrowing face cream, fabric, and perfume to doll herself up. But when her mother discovers what the girl's actually been up to, she learns that tomboys don't change their stripes quite so easily.
When Li'l Tomboy reads a newspaper story about a child getting free ice cream and cake at the police station, she hatches a scheme to pull the same trick herself—but her clever con backfires in ways she didn't expect. This 1958 humor tale from *Li'l Tomboy* #101 serves up a lesson on the importance of honesty with a warm, gently comedic touch.
Li'l Tomboy decides to turn the tables on her family by secretly photographing them in embarrassing moments over several weeks, then slips the candid shots into the family album—only to have her plan backfire when a visiting family friend discovers the pictures and shares her own story of a daughter who did something similar.
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