Jack-in-the-Box Comics #15
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeJack-in-the-Box Comics #15 is an anthology featuring multiple stories. One story depicts a woodsman who hides his gold axe and calls upon Mercury for help when a stranger attempts to steal it; Mercury appears and tests the woodsman's honesty by offering him a gold axe, ultimately rewarding him with his own axe after he refuses to lie, with the moral "Honesty is the Best Policy" emphasized. Another story demonstrates the versatility of a helicopter, showing how it can taxi forward and backward, take off vertically, land vertically, and hover motionless regardless of wind conditions. A third story involves King Arthur's mortal battle with Sir Modred; after their combat, King Arthur is brought to a lake where he had previously received Excalibur, suggesting his departure to Avalon.
A poor woodsman's accidental loss of his axe in a deep pool catches the attention of Mercury, who offers a divine test of character. When the woodsman chooses honesty over greed, he learns what true reward looks like—and discovers that another woodsman's attempt to trick the same god carries a very different consequence. This classic fable from Lee Sherman reminds us that integrity matters more than any material gain.
Ginger tells a tall tale to impress her girls' club, claiming her uncle is a senator—so when the real Senator Brackish unexpectedly shows up at the hotel, Breezy gets roped into impersonating him, leading to a scramble of mistaken identities and close calls. It's a 1947 romp where one innocent fib spirals into comedic chaos, and Breezy discovers that fooling the girls may have been the scariest part of all.
Tommy Tailspin takes a young woman on an exciting flight to demonstrate how a helicopter works, explaining its key parts and the remarkable things it can do that regular airplanes cannot—from hovering motionless to taking off and landing straight up and down. Along the way, Tommy showcases the helicopter's many practical uses, from rescuing people at sea to fighting forest fires and delivering aid to remote locations.
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Reprinted in Robin Hood and His Merry Men #29 (1956)
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