Uncle Milty #4

Uncle Milty heads to a carnival for a much-needed break, but one visit to the fun house spirals into a bewildering encounter with Mother Goose herself, who won't let him leave until he recites her rhymes correctly. As Uncle Milty stumbles through increasingly twisted versions of nursery rhymes—and contends with a mysterious Crooked Old Man lurking in the chaos—he discovers that nothing in this maze is quite what it seems.

The Pitchman discovers that his miraculous "Little Jim Dandy" tonic—guaranteed to grow hair on anything—works a little too well when he refuses to listen to a persistent boy's warning about the product's unexpected side effects. As his customers discover hairy hands instead of healthy scalps and his pitch falls apart, the quick-talking con artist must scramble to escape the angry mob he's created.

Uncle Milty finds himself accidentally roped into working high above the ground on a construction site, where his terror of heights gets mistaken for nerves of steel by the crew. As Mike and the other workers pile on increasingly chaotic tasks—rivet-catching, girder-holding, and more—Uncle Milty scrambles to survive the day without revealing the truth. With Floyd Torbert's energetic pencils and inks, this 1951 humor tale turns a simple case of mistaken identity into comedy gold twenty stories up.

Bill's struggling show business career gets a miraculous second chance when he discovers Marvin, a dog who can play checkers—and convinces the clever canine and his pal Mopey to become his trained animal act. With high hopes, Bill coaches the dogs through acrobatics and musical numbers before taking them to a booking agent, convinced he finally has a hit. What happens when Bill presents his miraculous performers remains to be seen in this 1951 humor tale from Uncle Milty.