Paul Terry's Comics #118
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Mysterious Prince," the mischievous magpies Heckle and Jeckle take a wacky turn as classroom helpers when they invent "Answer Paste" to boost their slow-learning friend Dimwit’s grades. But when the paste spills and their scheme backfires, the duo faces the ultimate punishment: writing their names thousands of times in both directions. Art by Jim Tyer brings the zany antics of these animal students to life in this 1954 St. John classic.
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Heckle, Jeckle, and Dimwit are all grade-school students among a class of other animal-students. To help slow-learner Dimwit with his studies, the magpies invent “Answer Paste”, to help the answers to questions “stick” to Dimwit’s feeble brain. Dimwit immediately achieves great intellectual heights then falls when the jar of “Answer Paste” drops to the floor and breaks. For their interference, Heckle and Jeckle are forced to “…remain after school and write [their] names six-thousand, seven-hundred and eight times – forward, and nine-thousand, three-hundred and seventy-six times – backward”.
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