Punch and Judy Comics #12
In "Wanderer's Lust," Orestes Calpini's dynamic art brings to life a wild circus caper where two crooks steal the animals from Bobo's show, only to turn them into bizarre hybrids with a strange machine. Bucky the mule, ever the hero, outsmarts the thieves, uses the machine to restore the animals, and turns the tables by transforming the crooks into the very freaks they intended to sell. A delightfully absurd tale from 1947, with Calpini handling both pencils and inks.
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Two crooks steal the animals from Bobo's circus, intending to "make funny freaks of them" using a machine that combines animals into weird hybrids, and then "sell them to a foreign circus." Bucky the mule rescues his friends, runs them through the "Funny Freak-Making Machine" to restore them to normal, and pushes the two crooks inside. The crooks are converted into human-table and human-chair freaks and put on display in the circus.
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