Nyoka the Jungle Girl #38

When a young prince is critically injured in a hunting accident in the jungles of India, a lifesaving drug must be flown in from China—but the plane carrying it crashes in an unexplored and treacherous jungle region beyond a deadly chasm. Nyoka and a group of fortune-seekers are sent into the wilderness with guides to locate the wreckage and retrieve the medicine, but not everyone may have the prince's best interests at heart. As the search begins, danger lurks around every corner in this wild frontier where nature itself has set deadly traps.

When Trader Tom strikes a bargain on a suspiciously cheap horse, he learns the hard way why his seller was so eager to let it go—a slapstick lesson delivered straight to the gut. "Look Out" is a swift one-page humor tale that proves sometimes the best deals come with hidden costs.

When Ballyhoo Barney brings a troupe of talented skating penguins to the Bungling Circus as a replacement act, things don't go smoothly—Captain Measly, the performer being replaced, has other plans. As the big show kicks off and the crowd demands to see the penguins perform, Ballyhoo has to get creative to save the night after sabotage threatens to derail everything.

Egbert the Explorer has a tall tale to tell about his harrowing time stranded in the Sahara Desert, but there's a laugh lurking in the punchline. When Nyoka and Walker find themselves trapped in a cave with a hungry lion—courtesy of the villainous Burr and Mapes—the jungle girl must use her wits and the beast itself to escape and protect a buried treasure from falling into the wrong hands. With a volcano rumbling nearby and time running out, Nyoka races to intercept Walker before the criminals can follow him to the cache.

Trader Tom dreads the arrival of a demanding customer, Mrs. Campbell, who shows up at his shop looking for shoes that are simultaneously comfortable and stylish—a seemingly impossible combination. When Tom cheerfully sums up her contradictory wishes with a joke about wanting shoes that are "large inside and small outside," the humor lands right where it's meant to, making this a quick, punchy gag about the eternal struggle between practicality and appearance.