Nyoka the Jungle Girl #46

Nyoka the Jungle Girl springs into action when she and her companion Larry rescue a desperate man from a deadly whirlpool—a traveler named John Gulliver who's fleeing from an encounter with a giant tiger on a mysterious jungle island. Gulliver's wild story of giants and pygmies, guided by an old map, sounds like pure fantasy, but Nyoka's curiosity and sense of adventure convince her to join the expedition back across the whirlpool to investigate. As the trio explores the strange island, they discover impossible vegetation and signs that something extraordinary might actually exist in this uncharted land.

Egbert the Explorer spins a tall tale to one-up an acquaintance's shipwreck story, claiming his uncle survived for three weeks on a gold tooth—by pawning it for thirty dollars. It's a quick, punchy joke that delivers exactly what the title promises.

Nyoka and her companions find themselves captured by colossal giants and forced to navigate an island teeming with impossible dangers—from being tied up as food to facing hostile pygmy warriors armed with poisoned darts. With quick thinking and resourcefulness, Nyoka must orchestrate their escape through a gauntlet of threats both towering and tiny, racing against rituals that spell certain doom. This pulse-pounding chapter of the jungle horror reaches its climax as the group fights to reach safety and leave the cursed island behind.

When a carnival barber is hired to give the Ballyhoo Circus a much-needed trim, he's explicitly warned to keep his scissors away from Samson—the strongman whose legendary power depends on his hair. But a series of comedic mix-ups involving a hidden wig threaten to expose the truth, leaving Bungling convinced he's either losing his mind or that the barber has sabotaged the circus's biggest attraction. It's a lighthearted romp through mistaken identity and hilariously misplaced blame at the big top.

When Nyoka discovers a fabulously valuable pearl hidden inside a rare coconut in the African jungle, news of her incredible find spreads through town like wildfire—attracting the attention of ruthless criminals who'll stop at nothing to steal it. After a daring heist and a violent struggle that leaves her unconscious, Nyoka unknowingly agrees to help the very crooks who robbed her track down their double-crossing ringleader into the jungle depths. As she ventures into the wilderness with danger closing in from all sides, the stage is set for a perilous hunt where nothing—and no one—may be what they seem.

When Trader Tom won't stop pushing a loud overcoat on Blakely in the tropical heat, the salesman's remedy is to hawk him a muffler—a perfectly illogical solution that plays on Tom's relentless hustle and Blakely's exasperation in this 1950 comic.

Nyoka awakens underwater, bound and weighed down by rocks that the treacherous Steele has used to ensure her drowning—along with the convict crooks Filche and Rarbe—in this climactic chapter of "The Pearl of Destiny." Fighting through impossible odds, she must escape the river's depths, rescue her companions despite their betrayal, overcome a strangling gorilla in the jungle canopy, and track down Steele before he vanishes with the precious pearl. It's a desperate race against time as Nyoka proves once again why she's the most resourceful adventurer in the jungle.

When a waiter runs out of maraschino cherries, he gets creative—maybe a little too creative—and serves up a grapefruit topping that's guaranteed to surprise the customer in "Deep-Dipped Dessert!" A short, punchy gag from the pages of Nyoka the Jungle Girl #46 that proves sometimes the worst substitutions make the best laughs.