Nyoka the Jungle Girl #61

Ballyhoo Barney's got a sweet gig as press agent for a pie-throwing vaudeville act—until a mysterious animal starts sneaking into his room at night to pelt him in the face with freshly baked chocolate cream pies. When locking the door and even keeping a loaded rifle by his bedside fail to stop the nocturnal nuisance, Ballyhoo gets desperate enough to commandeer a car for a high-speed chase that goes hilariously wrong. This 1951 humor tale delivers slapstick mayhem and a twist that'll make you think twice about dessert preferences.

Nyoka arrives at what should be a luxurious journey, only to discover she's been betrayed and thrown from a carriage near a cliff—a trap that suggests danger reaches far deeper than she imagined. Suspecting the evil Prime Minister is behind the treachery and fearing for the Princess's safety, Nyoka must infiltrate the heavily guarded palace, uncover the conspiracy, and race to prevent an assassination before it's too late.

Nyoka and Trader Tom clash over a faulty fountain pen when Tom refuses to honor his own money-back guarantee, claiming the customer's money was "satisfactory" even if the pen wasn't. It's a quick, cheeky bit of circular logic that lands the joke squarely on the merchant's dubious reasoning.

Nyoka and Ragus find themselves bound and cast into the deadly Whirlpool River by the scheming Dagmu and Umgad—but their captors' mistake of tying them together may be the key to survival. With the Princess Tioma locked away and threatened into marriage, Nyoka must infiltrate the palace and free her before Dagmu's evil plans come to fruition.

When Colonel Corn and his pal Korny Kobb encounter a traveling magician named Mister Mysto, they're treated to a demonstration of his signature "Egg Trick"—one that involves cracking raw eggs directly into their upturned hats with a promise to make them vanish. As the magician chants his mystical incantations, things don't quite go according to plan, and the two friends are left holding the literal bag (or hat, rather) when Mister Mysto admits defeat and walks away. It's a simple but hilarious setup where the punchline lands squarely on who ends up with the mess.