COME BLOW YOUR HORN
(c)1977 by Tim Hollis


Krinklesnyde paced back and forth in his gloomy old house.  As usual, he was 
plotting new ways to get Tim Hangschwartz in his clutches, so he could be the 
new ruler of Weird World.

"Bahh!" he snorted.  "There has to be a way to get rid of Hangschwartz's 
bodyguards, those goody two-shoes Mighty Milkshake and Muscles Mahogany!"  
Krink remembered all the times they had flown to the rescue when Hangschwartz 
signaled them by tooting that blasted Magic Horn of his.

Then Krinklesnyde's eyes lit up with an evil glow.  "Hmmm... Maybe I could 
TIRE THEM OUT," he muttered!

Using his most evil magic, Krink whipped up not one, not two, but TWO HUNDRED 
copies of Hangschwartz's Magic Horn, all of them exactly alike!  He called 
one of his henchmen, the shady underworld character Baron Bluejay, and told 
him, "Deliver one of these fake Magic Horns to everyone in Weird World... 
except Milkshake and Mahogany!"

And so it was that the next morning, each and every one of the good citizens 
of Weird World found a Magic Horn on his or her doorstep.  They ALL had one:  
Mr. Goods the Martian, Jerome Giraffe, Horatio Hippo, the Creep Family, Turk 
the Blue Turkey, MacIntosh MacMoneybags, and all the rest.

They had all seen what wonderful things the two super heroes could do when 
the Magic Horn brought them in, so most of the citizens wasted no time in 
trying out their horns.

Hearing the horn's distinctive HOOT TOOT, Mighty and Mahogany were off like 
two      bullets.  But before they could get to the spot the sound had come 
from, they heard another HOOT TOOT coming from the opposite direction!  
Halfway there, the HOOT TOOT came from down in the  direction of the 
Okeechokee Swamp!

This went on all day long, until by sundown, Mighty and Mahogany were as limp 
as a couple of old rags, and they didn't even have enough strength to sit up 
straight.

While all of this was going on, Krinklesnyde had crept up behind Tim 
Hangschwartz and thrown a sack over the poor guy's head before he even knew 
what hit him.  When Hangschwartz came to, he was tied to a heavy post in 
Krink's dungeon, and Krink was      building a fire under his cauldron, to 
boil Hangschwartz in oil!

"Well, here we go again," said Hangschwartz, pulling the genuine Magic Horn 
out of his coat.  HOOT TOOT!

Fifty miles away, the battered and beaten Mighty and Mahogany heard the 
sound.  "Oh, no," mumbled Mighty.  "Yeah, we're not going to answer ANOTHER 
false alarm," agreed Mahogany.

Hangschwartz was puzzled.  "Hmm, they don't answer," he said.  "Guess I'll 
have to give it the old super scream!"  Now if there was one thing 
Hangschwartz was good at, it was screaming.   His mega-decibel "HALLLLPPP!!" 
echoed over the hills and valleys of Weird World.

Mighty Milkshake and Muscles Mahogany heard it too.  "That's really him!" 
gasped Mahogany.  "Yeah, but we're too weak and tired out to answer him!" 
agreed Mighty.  "But I think we can fix that."

Out of his pocket, Mighty pulled a bottle containing their wonderful Super 
Pills.       Gulping down a handful, he passed several over to the 
rapidly-fading Mahogany, who promptly swallowed them down.

*** BOOOMMM!! ***

Judging from the two heroes now, you wouldn't think they had ever been tired 
in their lives.  Mighty looked like Mr.  Universe, while Mahogany could have 
passed as the winner of the latest Ms. Fitness contest.  They didn't waste 
any time, either.  Launching themselves into space, they headed for 
Krinklesnyde's creepy abode.

The nasty old green kangaroo was just about to toss Hangschwartz into the 
boiling oil, but couldn't resist taking just a moment to gloat....

"At last, I have won!" he sneered in Hangschwartz's face.  But just then, 
there was a voice like thunder coming from behind him:

"OH, YEAH?"

Krink turned around, and when he saw the fortified Mighty Milkshake and 
Muscles      Mahogany looming over him, he was so scared that he fell apart 
into twelve pieces.  But he pulled himself together in a hurry, and tried to 
get away.

Working fast, Mahogany flew over Weird World, gathering up all the fake Magic 
Horns and stuffing them inside one another.  As soon as she was finished, 
Mighty picked up the fleeing Krinklesnyde and stuffed him inside the very top 
horn.

With a WHAM, Mahogany hit the horns-and-Krink collection with her fist, and 
the whole mess shattered into scrap metal.  The last they saw of Krink, he 
was running for dear life, with his head sticking out of one end of a fake 
horn and his legs from the other end.

Mighty and Mahogany broke Hangschwartz's ropes and quickly got him back to 
his palace before Krink could recover.

After they explained what had happened, Hangschwartz issued a new law for 
Weird World.  From then on, it would be illegal for anyone but him to blow a 
Magic Horn, or anything even  remotely resembling a Magic Horn!

The End