Speedy Rabbit #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeSpeedy Rabbit encounters a ghost town and investigates a supposed haunting, discovering that a varmint has been causing the trouble. After resolving the situation, Speedy rides off and encounters a coyote, ultimately discovering through conversation with the coyote that it is not actually a coyote but a man who had previously left the coyote's offspring to join its own kind. The issue also contains "Sparky Smith and the Secret Cave," in which Sparky and her bird companion Cheeta discover rocks that appear to be gold, leading them to follow some mysterious figures into a cave.
Speedy Rabbit accepts an invitation to visit Sir Upton-Downton at his drafty old castle in England, where he discovers the medieval fortress leaves much to be desired in modern comfort. When the rabbit decides to warm up his chilly guest quarters, his resourceful solution catches his host's admiring attention.
Sparky Smith stumbles into show business when a traveling Broadway actor offers him and his pal a chance to perform in Romeo and Juliet—but their rough-and-tumble western antics transform Shakespeare into complete chaos on opening night. When the dust settles, Sparky discovers the actor is running a counterfeiting operation, leading to a wild pursuit across the frontier that pits our hero against both the criminal and his own questionable sense of justice. It's a riotous blend of slapstick theater mishaps and frontier adventure that proves sometimes the best performances happen offstage.
Speedy and his companion Cleo set out to track down the legendary Cannonball Ghost after volunteering to help the frightened townsfolk—only to discover the dusty frontier landscape is full of warning signs and very real dangers lurking in every shadow. As they venture deeper into ghost country, they'll have to separate fact from folklore to uncover what's really behind all the mysterious explosions and disappearances.
Private eye Spotty Spike takes on his most intriguing case yet when a desperate woman named Miss Splotz rushes into his office with news of a stolen priceless vase—and a sinister warning from someone calling themselves "The Holy Terror." Tracking the criminals to a mysterious house on the outskirts of town, Spike finds himself trapped and in over his head, forced to rely on unexpected help to have any chance of recovering the stolen treasure and escaping his captors' clutches.
Sparky Smith and his sidekick Cheeta stumble upon what they believe to be gold in a remote canyon, but their fortune-hunting adventure takes a chaotic turn when a trio of ruthless bandits catches wind of the discovery and pursues them relentlessly through a mysterious cave system. Trapped between their pursuers and danger at every turn, the pair must use their wits—and a little dynamite—to stay one step ahead. When all seems lost, a surprising ally emerges from the depths of the cave to turn the tables in an unexpected way.
ComicBooks.com Value
Show all 8 grades ▾
Find on ebay
Read it digitally
Sell my copy
Have this issue — or a whole collection? Get a fair offer from us, skip the marketplace fees and the hassle.
We Buy Collections ▸Cast · 1 character
Full credits
Reprints
↩ Reprints Television Puppet Show #2 (1950)
Reviews
Reader reviews
No reader reviews yet.