The Talking Cat Part 12

Kill-a-walls, pep! The super-delicious cereal presents the adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leave tall buildings at a single bound. Up on the sky, it's a bird. It's a plane. It's Superman.

Yes, it's Superman. And today, the man of steel must find the means of tracing Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane. We'll join him as Clark Kent in a moment. But right now, let's join a certain young fellow named Rusty who seems to be kind of discouraged.

Let's hear what Dan McCullough has to say to him. Hey Rusty, what's the matter with you? Oh. Why have you been grumping around here all afternoon? What's the beat? Well, I missed out on something. Something you wanted pretty bad?

Yeah, one of those comic buttons tell our peppers putting out. One I needed my collection. Well, how'd you miss out? Well, I wanted what's the trade with Skinny. That's all I wanted. He wasn't traded with Sue instead.

But skinny wouldn't leave you out. Well, I've got two smoky, stover button, see? And I need a moon mowing for a Superman. Yeah? So skinny goes and slops through with extra Superman for a smoky, stover.

And I wanted that train. But look, Rusty. Did skinny know that you had an extra smoky, stover button? Well, no. And did he know that you needed a Superman? No, but, well, then how could he know that he wanted him to trade?

Say, that's right. I never thought of that. Why, sure. Every fellow and girl knows that you have to sort of spread the word around when you have duplicate comic buttons to trade so that you don't take any chances on missing out. Because every fellow and girl wants eventually to collect all 18 different buttons in the series. And you can do that too, sure, easy as anything. You