Abbott and Costello Comics #35

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello try their hand as well-diggers, armed with a trusty divining rod, but when they take shelter in a deserted house during a downpour, they discover the place isn't as empty as it seems. What starts as a search for water to make coffee turns into an encounter with a mysterious figure and an unexpected job offer that promises to change everything.

Lou Costello lands a job as a male model and can't contain his excitement when he sees his picture published—until he discovers exactly what the advertisement is actually promoting in this quick-witted two-pager with Bud Abbott. It's a perfect setup for the comedy duo's classic dynamic of misplaced pride and a punchline that cuts just right.

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello take on a new case when Body Fisher hires them to protect her from her dangerous husband, the gangster Deadly Ernest Fisher—but things get hilariously tangled when she brings along a tailor's dummy to help them recognize him, complete with a knife stuck in it. When Ernest's henchmen Bullets and Slug show up looking for trouble, the dummy becomes the center of a wild chain of misunderstandings involving a trunk, tear gas, and a country burial plot that spirals into something neither Abbott nor Costello bargained for.

When Lou Costello accidentally starts up an aircraft at the Wolfe Aircraft Company, he and Bud Abbott find themselves in a rapidly escalating aerial mishap—complete with a runaway plane, a faulty parachute, and a crash landing that somehow catches their boss's attention. What unfolds is a wild scramble through the cockpit as the two try desperately to regain control and keep their jobs, only to discover that Mr. Wolfe has very different plans for their future at the company.

When a mysterious man crashes through the detectives' skylight with amnesia and a pocketful of cash, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello take the case—only to discover that a dangerous killer and a mad inventor's experimental bubble soap are standing between them and the truth. Racing through a fancy apartment building to piece together their client's identity, the bumbling duo stumble into a scheme involving stolen money, loaded guns, and more trouble than they bargained for.