Adventures of Jerry Lewis #114

Adventures of Jerry Lewis #114 (On Sale: July 22, 1969) has a cover by Bob Oksner.

We have Jerry Lewis stories: "The Flowers That Boom in the Spring" by Alan Riefe and Bob Oksner. Getting out of a taxi at the Garden Show, Jerry and pretty young woman, Abigail, accidently switch suitcases. While waiting for the Butterfly Exhibition to be cleared from the room, Jerry orders a steak. Meanwhile Abigail arrives to her meeting on a small island where she is going to sell her latest invention, the world's most powerful explosive, for a million dollars. She opens her suitcase only to find boxes of plant food. Realizing where the switch must have taken place, Abigail and some goons head for the Garden Show.

Jerry notices that his daisies look a little hungry. On opening his suitcase though, all he finds is a bottle of what look like water. Jerry feeds the explosive to his daisies and they perk right up. After a Venus Fly Trap eats the last steak in the place, Jerry dines on some flowers that turn out to be a Borneo Pepper Tree. Running to the restroom, Jerry douses the heat inside with water and refills the explosive bottle with water for later on.

Abigail shows up and Jerry gives her back her suitcase. Jerry is finally assigned a place for his plants and on the way plays "she loves me, she loves me not" with the petals of the daisy, which explode whenever they land, destroying the other entries in the show. Jerry is run out of the hall and into the arms of Abigail and her men, she having realized there was only water in the bottle Jerry gave back to her. They capture Jerry and take him back to the island. There they strap him to the lens of a lighthouse and let him heat up. He keeps telling them he fed the explosive to the daisies, but they don't believe him. A henchman tosses the daisies to the side and the entire island is destroyed in the resulting explosion. Jerry decides that raising daisies is just too dangerous.

That is followed by "The Nut That Holds the Wheel"  also by Alan Riefe and Bob Oksner. Jerry is learning to drive when his instructor flees and Jerry is carjacked by some bank robbers, who disguise themselves as women. Meanwhile, at a local theater, a frantic stage manager wonders when the Three Queens will show up for their performance. As Jerry and the bank robbers attempt to get away, the Three Queens realize they passed the town they were suppose to be playing in and turn back.

The police catch up to Jerry and the robbers but they think they are the Three Queens and offers to escort them to their show. On the way they crash into the car of the real Three Queens. The police tell Jerry that the reward for capturing the bank robbers should just about cover the damage that Jerry has made to the cars.

Edited by Murray Boltinoff