Nyoka the Jungle Girl #27

Trader Tom shares his two principles for business success with a visitor—the first sounds admirable, but the second reveals his wry sense of humor. Meanwhile, a lumber camp cook and a general store owner engage in a battle of tall tales over potato sizes, with increasingly absurd claims, until the shopkeeper delivers the perfect comeback.

Egbert the Explorer brags to Nyoka about his tent-camping experience with a groan-worthy punchline, while a young visitor to Zuzu the Zookeeper's collection delivers his own rimshot-worthy joke about panthers. This humor-filled half-pager captures the lighter side of jungle adventure comics from 1949.

When Colonel Corn returns a supposedly multilingual parrot to Korny Kobb's pet shop with complaints about its silence, the fast-talking bird owner offers a series of increasingly dubious replacements that lead to some colorful back-and-forth about what makes a pet worth keeping. This 1949 humor story plays out like a carnival of mismatched expectations and Korny's creative salesmanship, with Nyoka looking on as the argument spirals into absurdity.

Nyoka finds herself trapped and unarmed facing a pack of hungry animals—a deadly scheme orchestrated by the greedy Prowler—while a companion fights his own battle to reach her in time. When the animals turn on each other instead, Nyoka seizes her chance to free herself and contain the beasts, but a spreading fire threatens to undo everything as she races to stop Prowler from escaping on an outbound boat. It's a desperate chase across the jungle and docks as Nyoka makes a daring move to catch the man who set this trap.

Egbert the Explorer sports a mysterious bandage and attracts the attention of Chauncey Bore, who launches into a series of increasingly ridiculous questions about a tiger attack—only to discover the wound isn't quite where it seems. This quick humor piece plays the gag of a misplaced bandage and an annoying acquaintance for laughs.

Ballyhoo Barney, a press agent for the Bingaling Circus, dreams up a wild scheme to grab newspaper headlines—he'll have someone in a lion costume run loose through town to stir up panic and grab front-page coverage. But when his plan spirals hilariously out of control, Barney ends up getting far more publicity than he bargained for, though not quite the kind he had in mind.

Nyoka finds herself trapped and left for dead by Burroughs' scheming assistants, who plan to exploit the jungle's rubber trees for themselves—but with help from her loyal elephant Jumbo, she breaks free and races to stop a devastating sneak attack that could wipe out the Banzi tribe. Racing against time through the dense jungle, Nyoka exposes the villains' plot to pit the Talu against the Banzis and arrives just in time to rally the natives for battle. When the dust settles, she's got the conspirators exactly where they belong.