Little Max Comics#64(1960)

Max ties a saw to a tree limb in order to swing and saw a log at the same time.

A stray dog interferes with Max's shoe-shine business until Max finds a way to make the dog an asset.

Joe takes Max and his friend 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.

Description of how to draw a face on one's hand and then make it "talk" with hand movements.

Hector goes fishing in a barrel.

When Rumpus asks his girlfriend Maizie to marry him and change her name to his, she says she prefers Maizie to Rumpus.

Humphrey agrees to let his fan club practice first aid on him, but Prunella thinks he is really injured.

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.

Little Max challenges the reader to identify six animals based upon rhyming descriptions.

Lotta tries her hand at the track and field hammer throw. When she releases the hammer, it flies behind some bushes, hiding it from view. Simultaneously, another athlete's hammer falls in front of her, prompting her to believe that she has thrown hers around the world.

Dot's Uncle Drowsy comes to visit for his vacation. Dot finds him sleeping in an armchair and is determined to wake him up so that he doesn't waste his whole vacation sleeping. She tries several tactics to wake him, including making him a peppy sports shirt and playing rock music. But each time, her efforts only succeed in making him even drowsier. She finally decides to bake some ginger cookies, hoping the spice will perk him up. The cookies do the trick, and Uncle Drowsy is ready to go out and have fun, but by this time Dot has worked so hard to waken him that she is drowsy herself.

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.

Bartholomew and his father are at odds, and Bartholomew proves himself to be quite a nuisance.

Richie's father tells him a story of one of his ancestors, Sir Richie, the youngest squire to ever become a knight, and who happened to have looked just like Richie. The young squire had been more interested in chemistry than combat. The evil Sir Sly had attempted to steal the family fortune while Sir Richie was alone in the castle. However, Sir Richie used his knowledge of chemistry to save the day.