Terrific Comics #16

Wonder Boy's casual night at the circus with Sally turns sinister when an acrobat dies under suspicious circumstances—and our hero suspects it's no accident. Teaming up with Lee Morgan, an F.B.I. agent investigating a dangerous un-American organization, Wonder Boy infiltrates the circus to expose Lorna, the ringleader hiding behind her bareback riding act. As Sally goes undercover as a performer and coded signals emerge from a trained horse, Wonder Boy races to uncover the group's hidden headquarters before Lorna strikes again.

When a distracted schoolteacher named Mister Creepers takes his class on a nature-study outing, his single-minded focus on observing insects and plants leads to one mishap after another—from a wasp nest encounter to a hungry vagrant absconding with the lunch baskets. As chaos unfolds around him, Mister Creepers remains charmingly oblivious to the turmoil, too absorbed in cataloging specimens to notice the pandemonium his students are caught up in. This lighthearted 1955 satire plays Creepers' glazed enthusiasm for a straight man's role in a comedy of escalating blunders.

Ricardo, a local pilot, catches the eye of Hollywood starlet Rita Lane when a movie company arrives in South America to film an aerial action picture—and before long, he's cast as the hero in their latest picture. As Ricardo gets swept up in the glamour and excitement of filmmaking, his head swells with delusions of stardom, until a dangerous accident during an in-air stunt sequence threatens to bring his Hollywood dream crashing back to earth.

When a secret serum grants Sally extraordinary speed, Professor Benson's breakthrough attracts dangerous attention—a smooth-talking businessman who's actually a criminal mastermind bent on stealing the formula for his gang. Wonder Boy must race against time and runaway legs to stop a kidnapping and protect the scientist's work before the crooks can exploit their stolen prize.