Hit Comics #56

Kid Eternity hears the voice of a young woman named Linda May and learns her family faces ruin—their prize racehorse has been injured and they've lost their entry for the Great Steeplechase, the stakes race that could save their home from foreclosure. Using his mystical power to summon heroes from history, Kid Eternity conjures Bayard, the legendary charger of Charlemagne's knight Renaud, and enters the horse in the race to help her family—though Mr. Keeper suspects the boy's true motivation might have less to do with justice and more to do with Linda May herself.

Hugo Van Snoot, a well-meaning writer and philanthropist, sets out to reform a pair of street criminals by exposing them to the finer things in life—fancy clothes, gourmet dining, and high culture. But his well-intentioned experiment quickly spirals into chaos as his reluctant pupils prove utterly immune to civilization and refinement. Watch as Van Snoot's grand theory about virtue and cultured living gets thoroughly dismantled in five hilarious pages of pure 1949 comic mayhem.

When young Beanie Brown forgets to get a birthday present for Peachy's father, he decides to make it up with a grand gesture—reinforcing the man's riverbank before it washes away. But a series of comic mix-ups, including a dead phone line and a crucial miscommunication, turns his good deed into a slapstick disaster that nobody quite understands the way it actually happened. With the cabin lost and tempers running high, Beanie must prove his heart was in the right place even when everything else goes sideways.