Coo Coo Comics #17

Basil the Bold triumphs over Sir Rolypoly in a jousting match, earning his knightly title—but the sore loser seeks revenge by consulting Peter the Hermit, who brews him enchanted candy sticks designed to make young Basil afraid of his own shadow. When Basil the Bold faces Sir Rolypoly in a rematch the next morning, the spell threatens to turn the tables on the young champion in this humorous medieval romp from 1945.

A pony with dreams of soaring through the sky like the legendary Pegasus tries every scheme imaginable to achieve flight—from fashioning makeshift wings to borrowing a motorcycle—but keeps landing flat on the ground. When a couple of friends offer him a "magic secret" involving a peculiar tail-waving technique, the determined little fellow finally discovers what it takes to really get airborne. It's a lighthearted romp that proves sometimes the best solutions come from the most unexpected places.

Slumber Jack gets a lucrative deal from his boss—ten cents for every tree a beaver can chew down—but when an eager beaver named Buck takes the offer and fells fifty trees, Jack starts plotting how to dodge his debt. The beaver's revenge arrives swiftly, and it turns out there's a moral to this story about the price of greed.