Maggie's Crib

Maggie's Crib is a series of short comic stories in Bart Simpson, written by Sergio Aragonés. The first stories were published in issue #50.

Picture # Issue Plot #1 Bart Simpson #50 Maggie is sitting, watching TV when Marge take hers to her bed. Maggie wants to see the continuation of the TV show and goes from the bed to the TV room, where Homer is siting and watch TV. Maggie then fools Homer to walk away and locks him in the closet so she can finish the program. #2 Bart Simpson #51 Maggie wakes up at night and wants some milk. No one up in the family is up as they are all asleep, so she goes to Homer and hits him in the head with a lamp. Homer wakes up and Maggie starts to cry for milk again from her bed. Homer then goes to get some milk for Maggie. #3 Bart Simpson #51 Bart steals a cookie from the table and drops the dish with the dinner on the floor and he tries to get it to look like Maggie ruined the dinner. When Marge later finds out, Bart tells him that it was Maggie, but Marge has sufficient evidence Bart did it, as Maggie has drawn what Bart did. #4 Bart Simpson #51 Maggie dreams that Bart is a monster, and he destroyed a wonderland. When she wakes, she takes revenge and throws wooden cubes on Bart, who does not understand why she does it. #5 Bart Simpson #52 The family drives past a state fair, but do not have time to stay there. Maggie, determined, then poops to get them to stop there for a while so they can change her diaper. #6 Bart Simpson #53 Maggie is in a food store with Marge and Gerald, who is there with his mother. When Marge is not watching Maggie leaves the shopping cart and throws cornflake packets from the store shelves onto Gerald. Maggie goes back to the trolley before Marge comes back and Gerald is yelled at by his mother. #7 Bart Simpson #53 Marge turns a children's program on the TV for Maggie. When Marge leaves the room, Maggie changes the channel to more violent content. When Marge comes back into the room, Maggie quickly switches back to the children's show. #8 Bart Simpson #54 Maggie is playing in the sandbox and pretends that she is a archaeologist in Egypt. She finds a sarcophagus when she gets attacked by a bandit, but she throws sand in his face. Maggie wakes up from her dream and has thrown sand in the face of a woman and her baby. #9 Bart Simpson #56 Maggie wakes up when Snake is robbing the Simpson's house. She tries to wake the dog but fails. She then dresses herself up as an adult with a gun to scare him off and she stands in front of a lamp that produces a large shadow of her. #10 Bart Simpson #57 The Simpson family are at an amusement park and Homer is trying to win a pony for Lisa at a stand but fails. Maggie also tries to win the pony at a different stand and manages to win it, giving it to Lisa. #11 Bart Simpson #58 Maggie wakes up during a thunderstorm and goes to bed with Homer and Marge but they snore so loudly that Maggie goes back to her own bed. #12 Bart Simpson #58 Homer finds a Rubik's Cube but can not solve it, so he gives it to Lisa, who also couldn't solve it. She throws it to Maggie and a moment later, it's solved. Marge and Homer, unaware of Maggie's involvement, are happy that Lisa solved it. #13 Bart Simpson #59 Homer and Maggie are eating when Maggie discovers that Homer's food is tastier. She throws her plate on the floor and Homer is forced to pick it up. Meanwhile Maggie eats all off Homer's food. 200px #14 Bart Simpson #61 Marge takes Maggie to the market, telling her that she can play on the rocking toys. When they get there, Maggie eagerly looks at the horse and envisions herself as a cowgirl. Marge carries her past the horse and to the next toy, a car which resembles the Batmobile. Maggie looks at the car even more eagerly, reaching out for it and imagining herself as a costumed superhero chasing criminals in the car. However, Marge passes by the car and puts Maggie onto the last toy, a rocking duck. To Maggie's disappointment, her imagination can't make anything exciting out of this toy, and she simply sees herself as her normal self, sitting on a rocking duck. #15 Bart Simpson #62 Marge forces Homer to take Maggie to the playground instead of going to Moe's. When Homer arrives at the playground, he comes up with an idea - he makes his own playground that he puts inside Moe's. Homer can now enjoy his drink while Maggie's playing in the sandbox. #16 Bart Simpson #63 The family go to the beach and when Homer tries to take a picture of the whole family Maggie doesn't want to be captured. Homer wonders why she did not come to them and it turns out a wave was heading towards the rest of the family. #17 Bart Simpson #65 Marge is taking a walk with Maggie and they meet Gerald and his mother. Gearld makes a ugly mime to Maggie and Maggie throws her pacifier at Gerald, and starts to cry because he has her pacifier. Gerald's mother gives Maggie the pacifier and shouts at Gerald while Marge and Maggie walks away. #18 Bart Simpson #66 Marge is with Maggie in the sandbox, and when she plays there comes a kid with a toy dinosaur. She pretends that she is an adventurer, who is hunted by a dinosaurs. Maggie, however, is saved by quicksand. It turns out that Maggie buried the toy dinosaur, which made the kid sad. #19 Bart Simpson #67 Marge is shopping for new shoes with Maggie. Marge tests lots of shoes but doesn't find what she wants. After leaving the store, Maggie drops her pacifier so Marge and Maggie visit the pharmacy to buy a new pacifier. Here Maggie tries on several pacifiers. #20 Bart Simpson #68 Marge gives Maggie a bath in the bathtub and pours some bubbly baby soap into the water. Marge turns her back on the tub to put the soap away, while Maggie starts playing and splashing in the water, making lots of bubbles. When Marge turns back around, there is a huge mound of bubbles in the tub and Maggie is nowhere to be seen. Marge then dives headlong into the tub, frantically scooping through the bubbles looking for Maggie. When Marge's search in the tub comes up empty, she stands up in the water, turns to look into the rest of the bathroom, and is relieved to discover that Maggie has climbed out of the tub and taken a seat on the potty. #21 Bart Simpson #69 On his way out of the house, Homer goes to the garage to start his car, but it won't start. After some puzzled glances under the hood, Homer goes back inside and tells Marge. Maggie overhears the conversation and goes into action: She walks out to the garage, pushes a stepstool up to the front end of the car, fetches some tools, and starts working on the engine. When she's done, she puts everything away and goes back inside, unseen by Marge or Homer. Homer and Marge, meanwhile, are still talking about the car. They go to the garage and Homer has another try at starting it. This time, to their pleasant surprise, the engine starts immediately. Homer and Marge exchange waves as Homer drives away. Marge then goes back inside the house and is mystified to find Maggie smeared with dirt and grease from head to toe. #22 Bart Simpson #70 The Simpsons walk home after going to the circus. A little while after they get home, Lisa notices that some toy balls are missing from her room. At the same time, Marge notices that all of the oranges are missing from a bowl of fruit in the kitchen. The two of them go to Bart's room and ask him if he knows what happened to the oranges or the balls, but he doesn't know. Meanwhile, Maggie is in her crib juggling the balls and the oranges. But when Marge, Lisa and Bart go into Maggie's room, she is sound asleep and they are puzzled at the sight of the balls and oranges lying in the crib with her. #23 Bart Simpson #71 Maggie goes outside to have a dip in her kiddie pool, and is disappointed to find Homer already soaking in the pool drinking a Duff. A plan occurs to her, however. Maggie goes back into the house and to her room, then breaks a wheel off of a toy car. She then goes to the pool and tearfully shows Homer the broken car. Moved by Maggie's tears, Homer gets out of the pool, then goes into the house and down to the basement, where he glues the wheel back on. Homer goes back outside to return the repaired car to Maggie and realizes, to his annoyance, that he's been tricked when he sees Maggie sitting contentedly in the pool sailing a toy boat.