Little Max Comics #40

Dates

Cover date

April 1956

On sale

February 14, 1956

Pages

36

Editions and covers

• Original edition

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Stories

• Funny Bunny · 6 pages

  Little Max dresses in a bunny costume for Joe Palooka's Easter party, given for neighborhood children. Max, who never speaks, surreptitiously arranges for his good friend Alice to find the golden egg and win a prize.

• See Worthy · 2 pages

  Alice lends Little Max an umbrella, but he needs to hold it so low that he can't see. He collides with another pedestrian and tears a hole in the fabric. Now he has a window so he can see without getting wet.

• Water Boy · 2 pages

  Casey and Little Max agree to water the animals in exchange for circus tickets. Casey says he'll do Max a favor and take the horses as there are more of them -- but the camels, of course, need many more buckets to satisfy them. The ringmaster says Casey must be at work every night, but Max is excused; camels go without water for a week.

• The U.S.S. Humphrey · 0.8 pages
• Strictly from Hunger · 2 pages

  Humphrey eats massive amounts of food, then dreams he's eating a three-foot stack of pancakes.

• The Funny Mummy · 4 pages

  Little Max tries to catch a fly, but gets all wrapped up in fly tape. Posing as a mummy, he wins a prize at Alice's costume party.

• Babysitter Jitters · 2 pages

  Humphrey agrees to watch a baby while the baby's mothers does some shopping. He panics when the baby cries, not knowing how to comfort him. Running inside, he finds the mother, who tells him that the baby was just hungry, a condition with which Humphrey is all too familiar.

• Waisted Energy · 4 pages

  Max overhears two men discussing that they need to lose weight and decides he should do the same. He spends the entire day doing exercises that he has seen Joe Palooka do when losing weight for a boxing match, wearing himself out in the process. Joe invites him and Casey out to dinner, and Max is so hungry from all of his exercise that he eats much more than usual. In the end, he has gained two pounds, but Joe tells him that it is healthy for a boy his age to gain weight.

• Fishin' · 0.75 pages

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