Jack-in-the-Box Comics #13
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeJack-in-the-Box Comics #13 is an anthology featuring multiple stories. The main Jack-in-the-Box story involves Jack calling his friends—Peter Panda, Raggedey Jane, and Herman the Elf—to his home, where he tells them of a fairy's visit and her promise to grant him good fortune. "The Story of Sir Launcelot of the Lake" recounts the legendary knight's adventures, including an encounter with three knights near an apple tree where Launcelot and his nephew are resting. A science fiction story features a bald scientist and a small creature discussing a boondium bomb container, which explodes in a yard, with a character proposing to use the boondium to power a rocket to Mars.
In a whimsical tale from Jack-in-the-Box Comics #13, a cheerful jack-in-the-box named Jack is mocked by the grumpy Longears for lacking legs, sparking a wish for a better life. After a mysterious fairy godmother promises him legs if he performs a good deed, Jack sets out to help others—starting with a distressed cow in need of rent money—only to face Longears’s spiteful schemes.
Sir Launcelot and his nephew Sir Lionel set out on a hunt for adventure, only to be interrupted when Sir Lionel awakens to find a mysterious knight abducting other knights. Determined to investigate, Sir Lionel challenges the stranger, only to be overpowered—prompting Sir Launcelot to later pursue the knight after learning of his capture of other Round Table knights.
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Reprinted in My Little Margie's Boy Friends #5 (1956), The Life and Comics of Basil Wolverton #2 (2019)
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