"The Guest In The Ghost Hotel" was a 10-page story that appeared in Tubby #7 (Jan-Mar, 1954). In the story, Tubby heads out to a swamp so that he can catch a frog to put in Gloria's lunch box at school. But he accidentally falls into some quicksand and can't get out.
Slowly, he begins sinking down ... and down ... when suddenly, a house begins rising out of the quicksand.
He opens a window, climbs inside, and eventually ends up falling down the stairs into the lobby, while the building slowly sinks back down into the quicksand.
Tubby refuses to sign the register because he doesn't want to become a ghost. But Mr. Frite soon coerces him into signing by threatening to feed him to a large furnace in the basement of the hotel.
Tubby goes to his room and waits to become a ghost. But when morning comes, he finds that he is still alive and that the hotel has once again risen out of the swamp. He quickly climbs out the window and ends up back in the quicksand, just as the building begins to sink back down again.
All in all, I thought that "The Guest In The Ghost Hotel" was a very imaginative story, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. But when I got to the final three panels, my first reaction was - "Hey! I think they made a typographical error or something when they wrote the ending! Shouldn't it be the letter 'P' that Tubby always forgets?"
Since the "P" in "TOMPKINS" is almost a silent letter, wouldn't it have made more sense for him to misspell his name as "T-O-M-K-I-N-S"? (The word "TOMPINS" doesn't even sound very much like "TOMPKINS"!) Think about it....