Sparkler Comics #57

Sparkler Comics #57 is an anthology featuring multiple stories. "Hap Hopper, Washington Correspondent" follows reporter Hap and his companion Holly, who are arrested for speeding while accepting a ride from a stranger to Circle City to meet Senator Stormy Rivers; they are jailed for ten days and must break out to prevent the senator from being harmed. "Abbie and Slats" by Raeburn Van Buren depicts a young man who arrives at a house looking for the owners, claiming to have invented a telephone; he encounters the elderly residents and warns them never to leave the house again, hinting at a supernatural or sinister presence.