Rock and Rollo #18

Li'l Tomboy heads to the Arctic for some ice fishing and borrows an axe to cut a hole—but she's thinking bigger than most anglers would dare. When it comes to landing a real catch, this young fisher's got a philosophy: to fish big, you've got to think big.

Rollo's mother insists on throwing him a proper birthday party with only the "nicest" children from the best families—which means keeping out Rollo's actual friend Rock and her rowdy crowd. When Rock and her pals manage to crash the stuffy affair with increasingly chaotic "gifts," Rollo's carefully controlled soirée spirals into the kind of mayhem only these two troublemakers can deliver.

When a fancy interior decorator named Francois arrives to transform Rock and Rollo's home, the boys decide to lend a hand—with hilariously disastrous results. As the well-meaning but clumsy pair attempt their own wallpapering job, chaos ensues and poor Francois finds his grand design plans completely unraveling. It's a comedy of errors that teaches these two a lesson about knowing when to stay out of grown-up business.

Rock and Rollo get their hands on a pile of imitation jewels, but when a crook named Greedy Greg shows up with a gun demanding the "ice," the quick-thinking pair decide to load him down with as many gems as possible. What starts as a clever scheme to stop a thief takes an unexpected turn when a surprising truth about the jewelry comes to light.

When Li'l Pardner meets a visiting cowhand from the Circle-T Ranch who boasts he can match any feat of cowboying, the two set out to prove who's the real expert at the Lazy-W Dude Ranch. Through a series of increasingly wild stunts and tricks, each tries to one-up the other—until a surprise revelation settles the debate once and for all. It's a spirited showdown full of Western humor and the kind of friendly rivalry that makes for a satisfying day's work on the ranch.

When Rollo's mother convinces Rock that their country needs them for civil defense, the two boys take her lesson to heart—maybe a little too enthusiastically. As Rock and Rollo launch into their own creative brand of civil defense training, they discover that practicing anti-aircraft fire in the living room isn't quite the patriotic service their well-meaning mentor had in mind.

When a youngster tries to give his pal Ollie a gift, the joke backfires—literally—in this quick-witted prank tale from Rock and Rollo. In "Boomerang," what starts as a simple surprise quickly becomes a comedy of errors that nobody quite saw coming.

When Rock and Rollo's guardian presents them with a fancy art book celebrating great painters, one of the boys has a very different use in mind for the beautifully bound volume. This quick-witted humor story captures the clash between adult expectations and a kid's practical priorities in the most literal way possible.