What happens
The Comic Weekly Man reads the funnies from Puck to a little girl named Miss Arnie and her friends. Beetle Bailey soldiers mistakenly think their sergeant is scolding them, Flash Gordon faces the tyrant King Stang on Venus, Donald Duck and Daisy take a wrong turn on a country drive, and Peter Pan is pursued by Captain Hook. Dagwood and Blondie hold a family photo session with the family dogs, and Dick's adventures continue in New Orleans. Rusty Riley looks into crooks at a carnival, and Roy Rogers investigates a killing in Pine City. The episode is part of the Comic Weekly Man series, first broadcast on February 8, 1953.
A children's radio program with comic strip readings, featuring stories set in the army camp, Venus, a country road, Never Neverland, the Bumstead house, New Orleans, a carnival, and Pine City.
Characters: Comic Weekly Man, Miss Arnie, Beetle Bailey, Sergeant, Flash Gordon, King Stang, Donald Duck, Daisy
Listen for: Listen for the Comic Weekly Man reading each comic strip, with Miss Arnie answering questions between them.
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.