Spotty the Pup #2
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeSpotty the Pup tries to sell a vacuum cleaner to a homeowner, demonstrating its power by sucking up dirt and claiming it will cut housework in half, but the lady decides to cancel her order after learning the machine's true cost. The issue also contains "The Haunted House," a story in which Billy Goat and Gilda Goose search a field for buried treasure after being tricked by a prospector, ultimately discovering dinosaur bones that Billy mistakenly values as a fortune. Additionally, "Dilly the Pig" features Dilly attempting to find buried gold in the Klondike, where he is duped by a con artist into believing a pig is a genuine gold-pointer worth one hundred dollars.
Spotty tries to photograph his friend Skooch, but a series of mishaps during the shoot—including a tumble and an empty camera—threaten to ruin what should've been a simple picture session. With patience wearing thin and promises made to hold still, will Spotty manage to capture the perfect shot, or will things continue to fall apart?
When Spotty agrees to baby-sit young Oscar, he quickly learns the pup has a gift for turning the simplest request into absolute chaos—a spilled ink stain becomes a five-alarm fire, a trip to get water somehow involves commandeering a fire engine, and the mayhem only escalates from there. What follows is a wild chase across the city as Spotty desperately tries to keep track of his mischievous charge before Oscar's parents return home and discover what's happened to their house (and their baby-sitter's sanity).
Spotty the Pup tries to make his fortune selling the Mytee Grabbo vacuum cleaner, but every demonstration ends in disaster—until he stumbles into a decrepit old house that seems genuinely haunted, complete with ghostly tricks and supernatural chaos. What Spotty discovers inside is far more sinister than mere spooks, and his hapless vacuum cleaner might just be the key to uncovering the house's real secret.
Spotty accepts his pal Barney Fox's invitation to camp out in the Adirondack Mountains, eager for a taste of frontier adventure—but the vacation quickly turns into one exhausting task after another, with Barney happy to supervise while Spotty does the paddling, woodcutting, and hunting. When Spotty gets separated from his host and finds himself genuinely lost, he encounters a pair of stranded travelers who mistake him for an Indian guide, complete with the eagle feather stuck in his fur, and offer him payment to lead them back to civilization. What follows is a comedic struggle through fog and darkness as Spotty tries to guide two confident but clueless hounds to safety, all while having no idea where he's actually going.
Dilly the Pig arrives in the Klondike with high hopes and a fat wallet, only to be swindled into buying a "gold-pointer"—a device that's supposed to lead him straight to fortune. What follows is a hilariously disastrous treasure hunt full of wild encounters, mistaken identities, and chasing arrows through the snow, as Dilly learns some hard lessons about get-rich-quick schemes and con artists in the frozen north.
Spotty and Skooch suit up and dive to the ocean floor in search of a fortune marked on their treasure map, only to encounter a sword fish standing guard over the prize they've been pursuing. When the determined fish charges at them, an unexpected turn of events leaves our heroes face-to-face with a chest that holds a far different kind of surprise than they bargained for.
When Spotty and a fellow watch dog are hired to guard a stash of dynamite, a careless moment with a cigarette sets off an explosion—and they're caught red-pawed when their employer arrives furious and demanding answers. Quick thinking kicks in as they spin an outlandish tale of submarines, spaceships, and chases across the solar system to explain the disaster, in this 1953 comedic romp that proves sometimes the wildest story is the one that saves the day.
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