Nyoka the Jungle Girl #58

Trader Tom and Blakely clash over meat prices in the jungle market—Blakely thinks Tom's charging too much, but when he demands a bargain, Tom delivers a punchline instead of a deal. It's a quick, punchy joke about haggling gone hilariously wrong.

When Ballyhoo Barney is ordered to take Oscar the gorilla for a walk in the snow park, he quickly discovers that keeping the gentle giant under control is far easier said than done. As chaos unfolds on the slopes and in the snow, Ballyhoo finds himself in a wild scramble to manage both the wayward gorilla and his own survival instincts. A hilarious jungle adventure that proves sometimes the real wild animal is the one holding the leash.

Nyoka competes in a hunting contest where she must bag the biggest game within twenty-four hours, but a jealous rival and his henchmen scheme to eliminate her before she can claim the title of the World's Greatest Hunter. When Nyoka emerges victorious despite their sabotage, the desperate conspirators devise an even deadlier plot involving the masquerade ball that follows—one that hinges on discovering what costume she'll wear to the celebration.

Egbert the Explorer regales Powell with tales of jungle dining customs, comparing fancy restaurant fare back home to the rougher meals of the bush—but when he describes a particularly memorable cannibal feast, the punchline turns the phrase "pheasant under glass" into something altogether more literal and unsettling. A quick, darkly comic jab at the gap between civilization and the wild.

Freddy Freshman needs extra spending money and lands a try-out as a soda jerk at the campus drugstore—but his inexperience quickly turns the lunch counter into chaos when a botched ice cream trick sparks a brawl he never saw coming. In this lighthearted romp, what starts as a simple job interview becomes a comedy of errors that somehow leads to an unexpected twist on keeping the position.

At a masquerade ball, Nyoka arrives to find herself framed for a murder—shot by someone wearing an identical black panther costume. As she flees the mob and hides in the palace, Nyoka discovers the true killer's identity and a deadly plot to use the costume switch against her, forcing her into a desperate race to expose the conspiracy before she becomes the hunter's final victim.