Tick Tock Tales [Tick Tock Comics] #2

Goofus the Gopher, Superintendent of Works, offers to fix a neighbor's radio—and naturally, the "repair" ends in an explosion that leaves him fifty dollars in debt. Desperate to raise the cash in twenty-four hours, he opens a clothing-pressing business, but a cascade of mishaps—a ruined exclusive dress, an angry door-to-door salesman, water damage to a tenant below—piles debt upon debt until Goofus finds himself in far deeper trouble than he bargained for. When fortune finally seems to turn his way, there's one last complication waiting in the fine print.

Uncle Barney and the Duke of Iron dream up a reducing machine to make their fortune, but when business is slow at the restaurant, they get a new idea: market it as an atomic reducer using nothing but water and muscle power to fool gullible customers. When a skeptical visitor threatens to expose their scam with real atomic explosives, things spiral wildly out of control and the partners learn the hard way that some schemes are too dangerous to handle.

Detective Hawk-Sure and his sidekick Whatsis take on what seems like an easy job: deliver some papers across town for a client and pocket $500—but the pair can't shake the feeling that something's rotten in the deal. As accidents pile up along their route to the delivery address, the detectives realize they may have walked straight into a carefully laid trap.

Spanky the cynic meets his match when he crashes bargain day at Tracy's Department Store—and finds himself face-to-face with Santa Claus himself. Determined to prove the jolly visitor is a fake, Spanky stirs up chaos throughout the store, but his schemes backfire in the most unexpected way when Santa draws two lucky names from the gift basket. Sometimes the greatest gift is discovering you were wrong all along.