Nyoka the Jungle Girl #33

Egbert the Explorer regales his friend Hobart with tales of his post-school travels across America—from railways and roadways to skyways—before revealing that most of his journeys were completed via hitchhiking. It's a quick-witted punchline wrapped in a one-page humor story that pokes fun at the gap between an explorer's grand claims and his more modest reality.

Ballyhoo Barney, a circus promoter desperate to drum up publicity for the Bungling Circus's arrival in Oskaloosa, hatches a scheme to fly an advertising balloon over the city—but his timing proves disastrous when he accidentally disrupts the mayor's crucial re-election speech. As chaos erupts and fingers point in every direction, Barney finds himself caught between an angry circus boss and an even angrier town looking for someone to blame.

Nyoka faces a terrifying ordeal when Nazi war criminals—posing as the lost tribe of Laguna—trap her and a native guide in mummy cases, planning to burn them alive for entertainment. When Larry arrives searching for Nyoka, he too falls into their hands, but a desperate rescue attempt leads to a tense showdown where Nyoka must act fast to save them both and expose the villains' true identities.

Nyoka finds herself trapped between warring animals in the jungle, but when lions and tigers turn on each other instead of their human prey, she sets a trap to contain the beasts—only to fall into it herself. As she escapes, she realizes that her enemies Mallis and Durge won't abandon their quest for the village's hidden silver, and she must race to stop their deadly scheme before innocent lives are lost.