Little Roquefort #1
In "A Helping Hand," Roquefort and Percy accidentally swap minds through a mutual hypnotism experiment, setting off a chain reaction that flips their lives—and the entire city—upside down. Written and illustrated by Jim Tyer, this 1952 St. John classic delivers a delightfully absurd premise with a 10-cent dose of early comic absurdism, all captured in a cover by Jim Tyer.
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Roquefort and Percy simultaneously hypnotize one another. According to the book they both read to learn hypnotism "When two persons hypnotize each other at the same time, their personalities exchange." Roquefort's brain and personality is in Percy's body, and vice-versa. This switch causes trouble among Roquefort's family and Percy's alley cat friends, eventually spreading into a citywide riot among humans with even far away farm animals, bowled-goldfish, and a lone canary getting into the act.
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