Chuck Rodwell is a gambling cowboy who discovers that he’s lucky at the roulette wheel if he holds hands with dancer Marie. However, Marie doesn’t like to hold hands with…

A mysterious Civil War veteran courts a Missouri farmer’s daughter amid postwar unrest.

Giuseppe, an Italian gas station attendant, is invited to the United States to reconcile with his father, who he believed had been dead for years.

Unable to deal with her parents, Jeannie Tyne runs away from home. Larry and Lynn Tyne search for her, and in the process meet other people whose children ran away….

Pluto discovers that a gopher has been stealing bones from his hidden stash.

The stooges are street cleaners who find some valuable bonds and return them to their owner. The man is so grateful that he offers them a big reward if they…

Left behind by her friends on a boat trip, contemporary teen Mabel takes pursuit but is knocked unconscious on an island, where she has a dream involving pirates, sisters, a…

High schooler Akiko has big plans to become a popular mangaka before she even graduates, but she needs to get much better at drawing if she ever wants to reach…

With the help of student assistant Boris and stolen university equipment, Dr. Harry Wolper plans to clone his dead wife. But then he meets Meli, an egg donor for his…

When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.

A grown-up Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm decide to get married.

Poems narrate four afternoon vignettes; each protagonist is older than the one in the previous sketch.