Dates
- Cover date
- December 1951
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Little Max in Little Red Riding Hood · 6 pages
Joe reads a somewhat different versin of Little Red Riding Hood to Max while Max imagines himself in it.
- Soda Sale · 2 pages
Max and his friends pool their money to buy candy and get a free ice cream soda.
- Sweet Treat · 2 pages
When Max makes five cents shining shoes, he treats his friends to candy. But after they choose what they want at the candy store, there is no money left for him to buy some for himself. Fortunately, the candy store clerk has a sympathetic heart.
- Close Call! · 1 pages
Humphrey combats a barn fire.
- Funny Animals · Little Max Rhymes with Reason · 2 pages
- Just for Laughs · 4 pages
Joe takes Max and Alice to the carnival, where they decide to try out the fun house. When they start going through it, it's more scary than fun, and Max finds himself wondering when the fun part begins. However, once they are out, Max wants to go back through again.
- Untitled · 0.5 pages
Hector goes fishing in a barrel.
- Rumpus · 0.5 pages
When Rumpus asks his girlfriend Maizie to marry him and change her name to his, she says she prefers Maizie to Rumpus.
- Let's Play Doctor · 2 pages
Humphrey agrees to let his fan club practice first aid on him, but Prunella thinks he is really injured.
- The Brush Off · 2 pages
Max is sweeping the floor in his house when the baby brother of the North Wind comes to play tricks on him. After the wind blows the dust he has swept in several directions, Max tricks the wind into blowing the dust out the door.
- Secret Formula · 1 pages
Using a chemistry set, Jimmy accidentally discovers formula XXQ9456Y, which transports him to another planet. One of the inhabitants of that planet tells him that since he has discovered them, he can never return home. He does indeed return home, and manages to bring back a small piece of evidence from his trip, but decides to stick to easy chemistry experiments in the future.