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Abbott & Costello #20
The issue contains two stories. In the first, Abbott and Costello encounter a scarred man named Maxie at a barber shop who warns them about a dangerous ex-champion boxer. When they head to a nightclub where Costello gets a job, Abbott accidentally runs into the bruiser and ends up hiding among the chorus girls. In the second story, "The Man Without a Head," Abbott secures Costello a job at the circus for fifty dollars per ten minutes of work, but the assignment involves sticking his head in a lion's mouth—a task that leads to predictable comedic mishaps involving the popcorn stand and the lion.