Little Ike #2

Little Ike trades his regular duds for a brand-new cowboy outfit and heads out to show it off to his pals—but when Bobby and Tommy show up in their own gear, the three young gunslingers can't resist playing out a full-fledged outlaw-hunting adventure in Meadowbrook Park. What starts as a high-spirited game of cowboys and rustlers takes some hilarious turns as the kids' imaginations run wilder than their aim, and they discover that rustling up real trouble is a lot messier than they bargained for.

Little Ike decides to share his bottles' deposit money with his friends by treating them all to free soda—but he ends up having to drink far more of it himself than he bargained for! When the bottles finally cash in, Ike discovers he's earned exactly enough for balloons, setting up a chain of comedic mishaps that involves the neighborhood kids, mud, and some very surprised adults.

When a junior car race promises a ten-dollar prize, young Ike is determined to enter—but after his homemade jalopy falls apart on a test drive, he decides to take a shortcut by secretly photographing his friend Nipper's blueprints and building an identical car. Things go hilariously wrong when Ike's darkroom mishap results in a reversed negative, leaving him with a vehicle that does everything backwards just as the race begins.

When Ike's friend warns him about the dangers of sawing a branch from the wrong side, Ike learns a valuable lesson about safety—only to have the tables turn in a humorous twist. This lighthearted 1953 tale from Little Ike #2 proves that even the most safety-conscious among us can use a reminder about staying alert. A quick, cheerful bit of comic book wisdom wrapped up in one page of fun.

Little Eva gets swept up in Nipper's claim that he's made a genuine diamond using his chemistry set, and she's ready to believe—until the truth about what's really in his hands comes tumbling out. This charming 1953 tale serves up a lesson about jumping to conclusions, wrapped in the kind of innocent mix-up that keeps everyone—especially young love—on their toes.

Little Ike gets an apple from Mr. Fazzini's fruit stand and tries to hide it from his friends, leading to a comedy of errors involving a hat, accusations of sneaky behavior, and increasingly frantic attempts to keep the apple to himself. When a girl named Eva shows up, Little Ike's refusal to tip his hat triggers a series of mishaps that culminates in him accidentally swallowing the apple whole—prompting his friends to panic and rush him toward the hospital, only to find he's mysteriously vanished by the time they arrive. It's a slapstick romp through 1953 that proves sometimes the simplest fruit can cause the biggest chaos.