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Abbott and Costello Comics #40 (1956)

St. John · 1956 · 36 pages

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Contains 5 stories
Justice Is Done?
6 pp · humor

Abbott and Costello run their detective agency from a slow stretch, so they decide to hunt down criminals themselves—only to bungle a burglary stakeout and accidentally help a young woman elope with a crook. Desperate to redeem themselves, they spot what appears to be a genuine murder plot unfolding at a nearby wax museum and race to gather evidence before the culprits strike. Will the bumbling detectives finally crack a real case, or will their track record of catastrophic misunderstandings catch up with them once again?

Model-Man
10 pp · humor

Abbott and Costello dream up a scheme to marry off the younger man to a wealthy foreign countess offering six million mysterious "Klotzkies" to any man who'll have her—but after a chaotic hotel visit involving broken elevators, angry landlords, and mistaken identities, the pair discovers their newfound fortune is worth far less than they bargained for. When they're forced to work off their hotel debt, one of them takes a job as a painter with hilariously disastrous results.

Super-Salesman
6 pp · humor

Abbott and Costello stumble into the encyclopedia business when Costello's softhearted nature leads him to buy a French-language book from a charming saleswoman—a purchase that quickly spirals into a series of misadventures as the pair desperately try to unload their linguistic liability. With Abbott's patience wearing thin and fortune swinging wildly in their favor, the two discover there may be more profit in this scheme than they bargained for, leaving the door wide open for another round of sales.

Backfire
3 pp · humor

Abbott tries to sell Costello a beat-up used car from his new business, but every "feature" he demonstrates—the convertible roof, the fluid drive, the brakes—backfires spectacularly, leaving the car (and Costello) in increasingly worse shape. The punchline lands when Costello finally gets a word in edgewise to reveal the sorry jalopy was actually his own car, which he'd just gotten rid of the day before.

Clothes Make the Manacle
6 pp · humor

Abbott and Costello work at a clothing store where a customer buys a suit on credit—leaving it strung up until he pays—and volunteers to help earn the money. When a stylish crook and his accomplice use the store as cover for a robbery, an unlikely hero emerges to stop them. It's a wild showcase of slapstick mix-ups, mistaken intentions, and the kind of comedy chaos the duo are famous for.

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