Timmy the Timid Ghost #16
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeTimmy the Timid Ghost becomes a circus celebrity after accidentally scaring a gorilla back into its cage, leading the ringmaster to congratulate him and hire him as a performer. When all the circus acts flee after Timmy frightens them away, he discovers two cats delivered a singing telegram informing him that his Aunt Mary was sick, prompting him to chase after the train to get back home. Along the way, Timmy tries to scare a rain cloud and various farm animals in a series of comedic misadventures before finally making it back.
Timmy the Timid Ghost reluctantly joins his friend Maxie in a scaring spree around town, but Timmy's conscience troubles him as innocent people get frightened and hurt. Determined to make amends, Timmy sets out to apologize to everyone, only to have his good intentions lead to an unexpected turn of events that changes how the whole town sees him.
Timmy the Timid Ghost wanders into a gymnasium hoping to discover what it takes to become a great athlete, only to find himself accidentally demonstrating superhuman feats—a world-record high jump, lifting thousands of pounds, and an incredible football throw—each time he startles the athletes around him. As chaos erupts with every ghostly mishap, Timmy learns firsthand that being an athlete might require less of "a certain something" than he thought.
Atomic Mouse organizes a circus benefit show to raise money for Mouseville's police training school, but Count Gatto and Shadow plot to sabotage the performance by impersonating singing telegram deliverers and tricking the performers into leaving town. When Atomic Mouse catches the scheming duo red-handed, he finds an unexpected way to turn their mischief into a spectacular show that benefits the very cause they tried to undermine.
Lester the Lazy Ghost finally gets a job as a scarecrow when a farmer hires him to keep crows out of the cornfield, but his natural talent for scaring proves far more powerful than anyone bargained for. As Lester tackles rain clouds and unwanted pests with increasingly impressive supernatural frights, things spiral in ways the scheming farmer never anticipated.
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Reprinted in Timmy the Timid Ghost #3 (1959), Timmy the Timid Ghost #5 (1959), Timmy #15
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