Madhouse #4

A new marshal rolls into the wildest town in Arizona with plans to clean things up, but the local troublemakers—and a certain lady named Emily Lou—have other ideas about how this gun-slinging reformer should spend his time. This goofy Western romp plays the outlaw life for laughs, complete with impossible poker hands, mistaken identities, and a climax that proves even the toughest lawman has his limits.

A young man attending a theatre performance finds himself drawn into a tangled case involving the missing performer Annie Body, stolen jewels, and a fortune teller with dangerous secrets. When a mysterious letter warns him off the investigation, he decides to dig deeper—leading to kidnapping, brutality, and a high-stakes showdown over a priceless diamond. In this tongue-in-cheek caper, our amateur detective discovers that solving a case and surviving it might be two very different things.

When a young man buys a run-down mansion at auction, he and his hip friends plan to throw wild jazz parties—but they don't realize the house is already occupied by ghosts who want them gone. The resident spooks try everything from eerie singing to hideous painted decorations to scare out the intruders, only to discover the bop-cats are far more interested in the wild decor and noise than in being frightened. In this madcap 1954 tale from *Madhouse*, the supernatural and the hip-cat scene collide in ways nobody quite expected.

Joe Blow earns his reputation as a smooth-talking ladies' man, but his carefree playboy days hit a snag when he marries the heiress Fanny Schmanny in 1946—only to find himself drawn back to the nightlife and a mysterious exotic dancer named Salami. When a nosy reporter starts digging into his romantic entanglements and Joe gets tangled up with a small-time racketeer named Rocks Inhead, his world spirals into a dangerous game of hide-and-seek with both the mob and the law. This madcap 1954 romp through tabloid gossip and criminal chaos proves that sometimes the biggest scandal is the one you create yourself.