My Little Margie #40

When Margie receives a charming wrong-number call from Brad Manley and agrees to meet him at the Club D'Amour, her father derails her plans by insisting she take Harold Crumboggle out instead—so she enlists her friend Ethel to take Harold off her hands for twenty dollars. But when Margie finally gets to her romantic rendezvous, she discovers that Brad Manley might not be quite the dream she imagined, leaving her caught between a bad date and an even worse situation.

When Mr. Albright starts complaining about a toothache, My Little Margie insists he see a dentist—but her reluctant father will do anything to get out of the appointment, convinced the experience will be torture. Margie outsmarts his every excuse and practically drags him to the chair, only to discover what really happened once he returns home.

Mr. Albright has long dreamed of owning a fancy watch, and when he finally splurges on one at the jewelry store, he can't wait to show it off to his boss, Mr. Honeywell. There's just one problem: Mr. Honeywell's own experience with a similar "unbreakable" timepiece tells a cautionary tale.

Herbert volunteers to babysit the twins for a quick errand, confident that two small children couldn't possibly cause trouble—but when they discover some light bulbs and decide to test them out, his day takes an unexpectedly shocking turn. This 1962 one-pager from My Little Margie #40 delivers the kind of slapstick chaos that made the series a humor favorite.

When My Little Margie inherits a pug from her Uncle Willoughby's will, she expects a fancy show dog—but instead gets a scrappy flyweight boxer with a trainer in tow. As Margie becomes the unexpected owner of the fight game, she finds herself caught between the charm of her new trainer and the chaos of managing a cocky little fighter heading into the ring that very night.