What happens
The Comic Weekly Man reads the funny pages aloud to a young listener, Little Miss Honey, in this 1952 episode of the Comic Weekly Man series, first aired on November 9, 1952. They take in several comic strips. Beetle Bailey, at an amusement park, passes a doll to a little girl and gets hit with an umbrella by her mother, then tosses the doll into a tunnel-of-love waterway after a woman accuses him of trouble. Prince Valiant follows Tillacom, a maid who trails the men who kidnapped little Prince Arn, and she sneaks him away from their camp. Donald Duck visits doctors and is told to rest. Robin Hood's men fight off men disguised as outlaws who attacked a wagon of gold, and Maid Marion is found missing. Dagwood and Blondie see Dagwood's savings buried and then delivered back. Flash Gordon is seized by blue tentacles on Venus. Dick Tracy, Dick's Adventures, and Rusty Riley also appear, with Rusty winning a race but receiving only certificates instead of cash.
A radio read-aloud of the Sunday comic pages, with comic-strip stories set at an amusement park, a medieval forest, a doctor's office, a suburban home, Venus, Lake Erie in 1813, and a county fair.
Characters: Comic Weekly Man, Little Miss Honey, Beetle Bailey, Prince Valiant, Tillacom, Prince Arn, Donald Duck, Robin Hood
Listen for: The cliffhangers: whether Tillacom will reach Prince Arn, whether Robin Hood will rescue Maid Marion, whether Flash Gordon escapes the blue tentacles, and whether Rusty can save Mrs. Jones's farm.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.