National Comics #69

In "Percy the Powerful," tiny hero Tiny faces off against the surprisingly strong Percy, a 90-pound weakling who relies on special pills every twelve hours to maintain his strength. When an evil professor steals the pills and uses them to supercharge animals, chaos erupts—forcing Carnie to step in and take the pills to restore order at the circus.

When a desperate hobo boards a train looking for work, he crosses paths with a railroad officer tasked with throwing him off—but a sob story about starvation, an unemployed family, and a mother's funeral costs more than this tough guy can bear. What starts as a confrontation turns into an unexpected act of mercy that leaves both men transformed, though not quite in the way either anticipated.

Granny Gumshoe gets a mysterious call from her neighbor Mrs. Van Gelt: silverware has mysteriously walked off the table and vanished during tea with a visiting gentleman named Mr. Bugg. After spotting a familiar face hidden under a fake mustache, Granny uncovers an elaborate scheme involving trained fleas—and sets a trap at another wealthy woman's home to catch the thief in action.

In this lighthearted 1948 tale from National Comics #69, Jo tries to dodge a scolding by pretending to have amnesia—only to be outsmarted by Roberta, who reveals the truth and puts her to work cleaning up. With a playful twist and a dash of sibling mischief, the story captures the kind of innocent hijinks that made early comic humor so enduring.

Anthrop and his friend Omar start a laundry and dry-cleaning business to earn spending money, opening shop in their clubhouse with help from Anthrop's parents. When a neighborhood dad kicks in to drum up customers for the boys, their little operation suddenly gets swamped with work—but inexperience and a color-blind partnership quickly turn their entrepreneurial dreams into comedic chaos.