Little Eva #21

When Nipper plans an all-boys picnic, Little Eva is determined not to be left behind—so when the boys reluctantly agree to let her join if she brings lunch, she races home to pack. But Nipper and Little Joe have a trick up their sleeves: they fake a rainstorm to scare her away, only to discover that Eva's persistence and the actual weather have other plans for their "no girls" outing.

Jumpy dreams of owning a snazzy convertible, but the fifteen-hundred-dollar price tag at Cheerful Charlie's Used Cars lot seems impossibly out of reach. When a wish doesn't magically solve his problem, this determined character has to figure out if there's any way to make that dream a reality.

When Nipper spots a big tire at his garage, he decides it beats his new ball—until his friends lose interest and he trades it away in a chain of deals that spirals hilariously out of control. Now he's stuck chasing the tire from kid to kid, desperately trying to get it back before his father discovers it's gone, leading to a wild chase with the tire careening through the neighborhood.

Little Eva and her pals set a trap to get revenge on Nipper after he tricks them with a rigged mirror contest, so they post his picture as a wanted criminal—but their scheme to clear his name by disguising him as a baby backfires spectacularly when the photo ends up in the newspaper. It's a delightful game of one-upmanship between the boys and girls that proves nobody outwits Little Eva when she's got Cindy and Susie on her side.

Nibbles pesters a plumber for the loan of his wrench to fix a bicycle, but when the request is refused, the determined kid decides to take matters into his own paws—and the chase is on in this cheeky 1955 romp from Little Eva.

Little Eva convinces a young boy named Joe to hold three balloons while she fixes her tangled shoelace—but Joe's got other ideas about what to do with them. It's a simple setup for a quick, silly payoff that captures the kind of mischief-making that made these humor comics so much fun for kids in the '50s.

Little Eva dreams of magic seeds and gets her wish—or so she thinks—when a clever friend named Nipper sells her some ordinary watermelon seeds with a tall tale attached. When a delivery truck accidentally drops watermelons near her garden overnight, Eva wakes to find her "magic" has apparently worked, leaving Nipper to discover that sometimes the best pranks have a way of backfiring in the most delightful fashion.

Little Eva and a friend scheme to earn movie money by trimming the hedge for their mother, but things don't go quite according to plan when they tackle the job from opposite ends. This lighthearted 1955 tale captures the timeless comedy of kids learning that simple chores are trickier than they look.

Pintail Pete and his pal Squint have been secretly feeding chlorophyll pills to someone in Echo Canyon, but when Pete's mother corrects his grammar, it becomes clear this harmless scheme may not stay hidden for long. A playful one-pager that captures the mischievous spirit of 1950s funny-animal comics, where a kid's well-intentioned (if misguided) plan is bound to unravel.