Canada's Revenge?

Don't $%^& with Canada:

The menace of the maple leafs? Pshaw.

But wait--the cover isn't lying to you!!

See??

It turns out that, in ye olden days, the townsfolk of this burg had tried to kill themselves a witch (no word on whether the town or the witch was Canadian). She manages to get away, and...


So no one ever dared cut down any of the trees. Not until big city slicker industrialist Mike Stone came to town!!


Not surprisingly, that doesn't turn out too well...


But Mike Stone, an obvious metaphor for American capitalist imperialism, won't give in, nosiree!!

And as he goes off to buy a proper suit for dynamiting trees (don't ask)...











Lesson: don't mess with Canada!!

Oh, don't worry, we were Code-approved here...it turns out the leaves just grabbed a mannequin wearing the exact same suit that Mike Stone just bought. So those dumb maple leaves didn't kill anybody, they just trashed a dummy. Still, properly chastened, Stone left town, never to return, and no one ever chopped down the trees...

Oh, I know what you're saying...I should be scared of a bunch of dumb maple leaves that act tough, but can't even tell the difference between their enemy and a mannequin? Well, sure, they're not the most threatening creatures ever...but then again, they're a heck of a lot more menacing than these maple leafs have been for the past 45 years:
Gratuitous sports slam courtesy of Steve Ditko and Strange Suspense Stories #33 (1957)