Tippy's Friends Go-Go and Animal #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThe issue opens with Go-Go and Animal planning a date, calculating shared expenses for a movie and refreshments. Animal then pursues a musical career with her violin, but her practice sessions produce terrible sounds that disturb the neighborhood, leading to property damage complaints from residents. In a separate story, Go-Go gets a job at a C-Thru Glass Factory and receives a phone call from her boss Mr. Phogg; when she arrives for work, comedic mishaps ensue involving her forgetting his glasses and subsequent chaos at the factory.
Go-Go shows up to Tippy Teen's costume party with a secret outfit that sends her father into absolute panic—he's convinced she's eloped after spotting a bridal shop box, and he races to stop what he thinks is a teenage wedding. It's a hilarious mix-up that plays on parental worry and teen rebellion as Go-Go's bold costume choice becomes the talk of the party.
Go-Go West falls head over heels for her music teacher, Mr. Walston, during a classical music appreciation class and decides to dedicate herself to the violin—but her screeching practice sessions quickly land her in trouble with the law and the neighbors. When a police officer threatens to arrest her for noise violations, Go-Go appeals to Mr. Walston to vouch for her musical talent, leading to a hilariously ironic twist about what her playing is actually good for. It's a fun romp through teenage crushes, classical music mishaps, and the eternal clash between highbrow culture and rock and roll.
Go-Go visits a fortune teller and learns that following a bearded man will lead to riches, but Animal is convinced the whole thing is pure hokum—until Go-Go's dogged pursuit of a mysterious stranger with a beard lands them both in the middle of a manhunt for a wanted criminal. What starts as a skeptical chase through the city becomes an unexpected chance at fortune, leaving Animal to reconsider his doubts about destiny.
Animal and Go-Go West arrive at what they believe is an exclusive formal dance, only to discover their evening has taken a series of muddy, disastrous turns. When they finally make it to the event in thoroughly bedraggled condition, they stumble onto a surprising twist that turns their catastrophe into an unexpected triumph.
Animal's clumsiness at school earns him an after-school job assignment at the C-Thru Glass Factory—but when Principal Mr. Phogg rushes to the factory without his glasses to check on the fumble-fingered troublemaker, chaos erupts on the factory floor. As Mr. Phogg stumbles blindly through the workplace and Animal tries to warn him of the dangers, the pair sets off a chain reaction of accidents that threatens to demolish the entire operation.
A hungry customer walks into a restaurant expecting a meal, but discovers the portions are absurdly tiny—a steak so small it requires a microscope to see, milk served in a thimble, and a dessert so minuscule he mistakes it for a postage stamp. Animal delivers the punchline with sharp timing and deadpan humor in this one-page gag story.
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Reprinted in Tippy's Friend Go-Go #13 (1969)
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