Punch and Judy Comics #12

Lockjaw the alligator gets a serious case of wanderlust after spotting travel posters, and convinces his reluctant professor friend that modern exploration beats the old ways—complete with a bus ride, a stubborn mule, and a motorized cart that sends them careening toward a volcano. What starts as an easy vacation quickly spirals into comedic chaos as Lockjaw's enthusiasm for comfort and shortcuts tests his companion's patience at every turn.

In "null," the animals of Bobo's circus find themselves in trouble when two crooks steal them, planning to turn them into bizarre hybrids with a strange machine and sell them abroad. Bucky the mule, ever the hero, springs into action, using the very machine meant to torment them to restore his friends—and then send the crooks packing, transformed into the circus's newest oddities.

When band manager Toby de Witt desperately needs a male singer for Jill Hart's teen prom, he stumbles onto an unusual solution—a crooner who can only sing properly from inside a bathtub. Toby keeps the singer's identity a secret to drum up publicity, but when the mysterious vocalist takes the stage at the big dance, the hidden gimmick creates pandemonium as swooning teens overwhelm the event. The revelation of who's really behind "the voice" lands Toby in hot water with Jill, turning this teen band caper into a laugh-filled lesson in showmanship gone wrong.