Leroy #2
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeLeroy, a mischievous teenager, gets into various comedic misadventures involving his science teacher, a girl named Janie, and baseball games with bubble gum. In one story, Leroy attempts to teach himself ice-skating after his elderly father eavesdrops on him, leading to slapstick mishaps on the ice and a collision with a horse-drawn sleigh. The issue also includes a Fleer's Dubble Bubble gum advertisement and an unrelated "Half Hour Later" story in which a father agonizes over his son wanting to change his name from "Heathcliff," only to discover the boy ultimately doesn't care anymore.
When Leroy's father announces plans to sell the family home to a buyer from out of town, the boy decides he has to stop the deal—so he throws his father's suit out the window, setting off a wild chain of misunderstandings involving a vagrant, a confused police officer, and the prospective buyer. As chaos spirals through the streets and precinct, Leroy scrambles to undo the mess he's made, only to discover his father might not have been so keen on selling after all.
Janie is dazzled by a football player’s impressive physique—until he steps out of the locker room, revealing his muscles were all in the padding.
Leroy and Janie head to a dance with high hopes, but when a dance contest rolls around, Leroy's two left feet—and a slippery dance floor—turn his jitterbug attempt into an unexpected comedy act. What starts as Leroy's worst nightmare somehow becomes the hit of the evening in this lighthearted 1950 teen humor tale.
Leroy's desperate to get Janie to go on the school's winter outing, but when he tries to help with her "big problem," he ends up saddled with taking her cousin Gwendolyn instead—while his rival Jasper scores a date with Janie. When Jasper recklessly takes Janie sledding down a dangerous slope, Leroy has to make a daring rescue to save them both, and suddenly he's the hero everyone admires. It's a classic case of good intentions gone hilariously wrong, with plenty of slapstick chaos and romantic mix-ups along the way.
When Midge's boyfriend Heathcliff asks for his club ring back to change the inscription, she takes it as a sign he's lost interest—and spirals into melodramatic despair. Her father tries to console her, while Heathcliff seeks advice from Midge's dad, only to be influenced by a philosophy book championing the elimination of "flim-flam" like sentiment from modern life. Determined to prove his feelings with a grand romantic gesture, Heathcliff attempts to win her back with an Elizabeth Barrett Browning poem, but a mix-up with the engraver threatens to undo everything.
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