plogg: The Pied-Pirate of Hallowe'en

"The Pied-Pirate of Hallowe'en", featuring May the Hyperborean, first appeared in PLOGG #6 (March 2015), though it was written and drawn in 2014. May and her dog, Digger, wander into a small town, where she joins the Roughing It Girls, a Girl Guide-type organisation, and makes an enemy of a pirate named Cap'n Sane, who, like the Pied Piper of Hamelin, leads the town's cat population away for some mysterious purpose. May and her newfound friends stumble upon Cap'n Sane's hideout, a haunted house, while trick-or-treating on Halloween night. The plot also involves pirate skeletons and two deadly suits of armour.

Most of the comics shown on "Toughie" Binder's stand are titles popular in the 1940s, with the exception of BUSTER BEAR, which didn't debut until 1953, and "Whacko Comics", which simply didn't exist. While reading a comic up in a tree (page 6), May mentions a little girl who likes dots; she's referring to Little Dot, of course, who debuted in the first issue of Harvey's LITTLE MAX COMICS in 1949. Again, while up in a tree reading a comic (page 13), May mentions a "mean old guy"; that's Doctor Sivana, archenemy of Captain Marvel, "The Big Red Cheese".

At the end of the story, "Toughie" Binder is wondering where his comic stand disappeared to. The answer is hinted at in the first and second panels of the same page.