Treasure Comics #8

Paul Bunyan stumbles upon what appears to be a murder in progress in the peaceful North Woods, only to discover the whole thing is a Hollywood film production gone hilariously wrong. When the well-meaning woodsman can't resist helping a damsel in distress—script be damned—he catches the eye of an ambitious film producer who sees in him the perfect star for a primitive action picture. Before he knows it, Paul is whisked off to Hollywood to become a movie star, where things get considerably more chaotic than anything he bargained for.

During the gold rush, a drifter called Crazy Ben strikes it rich in the desert and celebrates at a saloon—but when two fellow prospectors try to learn the location of his claim, Ben flees into the wasteland with his secret intact. Dave and Jim pursue him into the brutal desert, only to discover that Ben has turned the landscape itself into a weapon, and greed may exact a price far steeper than gold.

When the Arabian Knight arrives in a town gripped by tyranny, he discovers that Prince Mustaffa Fayn has imprisoned his own people for refusing to visit his museum—and finds an unlikely ally in Ali Baba, an aspiring thief with a conscience who's still waiting to organize his legendary band. Together with a cryptic wizard and Ali Baba's small crew, the Knight hatches an unconventional plan to solve the Prince's problem and free the townspeople from their cells.