Marmaduke Monk #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Nutty the Salesman Squirrel," Nutty finds a job listing in the want ads and becomes excited about the prospect of earning money for pecan nuts and college. He calls the number and arranges to pick up merchandise to begin selling magazines. However, his enthusiasm leads to disaster when he crashes down a snowy mountain on a sled, and he is found injured at the bottom. The story concludes with Nutty admitting he is not as tough as he claimed, while his concerned associates wonder if he will recover from his fall.
Nutty Squirrel spots a magazine sales job that promises to help him earn his way through college—and fund his pecan nut habit—but his door-to-door pitch meets resistance from a skeptical customer who'd rather send him back to kindergarten. This 1958 funny animal tale captures the scrappy determination (and humbling reality) of a young hustle.
Marmaduke Monk visits a shopkeeper who keeps suggesting various toiletries and grooming products, but the resourceful monkey insists he doesn't need any of them—until his unconventional logic about dental care leaves his would-be seller completely flabbergasted. It's a quick-witted showcase of the kind of stubborn charm that made this primate character a comedy staple in 1958.
Two young fish, Hal and Sal, grow restless in their quiet little pond and venture downstream in search of adventure, only to discover that the wider world comes with dangers they never imagined. After narrowly escaping both a fisherman's hook and a hungry predator, the pair realizes that their humble home might have been exactly where they belonged all along. It's a spirited fable about contentment and the perils of chasing greener pastures.
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↩ Reprints Monkeyshines Comics #13 (1947)
Reprinted in Marmaduke Monk #14 (1963)
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