#17

Synopsis

Skinflint landlady Mrs. Miterbox has squirreled away a fortune, which she keeps stashed in her boarding house while living a life of misery. Ne'er-do-well Roscoe Roland happens to become aware of the fortune, and takes a room at Mrs. Miterbox's establishment under an alias. Detective Scarlet comes looking for Roland, but will Mrs. Miterbox, who is working on a scheme to gain her boarder's imagined fortune, reveal him?

Credits

Script

Leon Harvey, Bob Haney, Russell Stamm, Vic Herman, Allen Saunders

Pencils

Lee Elias, Russell Stamm, Vic Herman, Ken Ernst

Inks

Lee Elias, Russell Stamm, Vic Herman, Ken Ernst

Business manager

Robert Harvey

Editor, vice president

Leon Harvey

Managing editor, president

Alfred Harvey

Spot illustration

Lee Elias