Issue | #32 |
Published | September 1973 |
Cover Price | 0.50 USD |
Pages | 132 |
Editing | ? |
Characters | Woody Woodpecker |
Genre | Funny Animals |
Characters | Donald Duck; Bugs Bunny; Porky Pig; Beep Beep the Road Runner; Mod Wheels; Cracky; Tom & Jerry; Little Lulu; Bullwinkle; Heckle & Jeckle; Scooby Doo; Tweety & Sylvester; Woody Woodpecker; Mickey Mouse; Wacky Witch |
Script | ? (promo copy) |
Pencils | Various |
Inks | Various |
Notes | A promo for Gold Key Comics with many of their most popular characters shown. |
Letters | Typeset |
Notes | Contents page with title of each story, the pages they are in the book and the indicia. |
Characters | Woody Woodpecker; Splinter; Knothead; pirates; a sheep; Mabel; Horace; cruise ship crew |
Synopsis | Woody and the kids are attacked by pirates and escape to an island with a sheep that appears to be the Golden Fleece of legend. When the pirates arrive and try to capture the sheep, Woody and the kids escape again, to be picked up by a cruise ship. |
Genre | Funny Animals |
Notes | Cruise ship is "S.S. Tourina." |
Reprinted | from Walter Lantz Woody Woodpecker (Dell, 1952 series) #68 (August-September 1961) [original layout=10 pages] |
Characters | Andy Panda |
Notes | A crossword puzzle. |
Characters | Windy; Breezy; Roscoe |
Synopsis | When Breezy wants to buy a new house Windy tells him that he'll have to get a job. When he tries to sell rocks he finds that one is enough to buy that house. |
Genre | Funny Animals |
Characters | Chilly Willy; Cap'n Pete; Waldo Whale; Cap'n White; Sir Snow; Mr. Wind; Terry Twister |
Synopsis | Chilly and his friends get caught in a winter weather war between Cap'n White, Sir Snow, and Mr. Wind. |
Genre | Funny Animals |
Pencils | Vivie Risto |
Inks | Vivie Risto |
Notes | Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
Reprinted | from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #1212 (September-November 1961) [original layout=8 pages] |
Characters | Winnie |
Notes | A word puzzle. |
Characters | Sam; Simian; Mr. Bullgrinch |
Synopsis | Sam and Simian get in trouble with selling things door to door so they decide to get into another line of work that seems safer. |
Genre | Funny Animals |
Script | Carl Fallberg ? |
Characters | Woody Woodpecker; Knothead; Splinter; Carl; The Sheriff |
Synopsis | When Woody is arrested on Frontier Days for not wearing western clothes he trips while in the jail and wakes up thinking he is Wild and Wooly Woody, the Wickedest Woodpecker of the West. When he escapes from jail the Sheriff, Knothead and Splinter try to catch him before he can pull a real robbery. |
Genre | Funny Animals |
Reprinted | from Walter Lantz Woody Woodpecker (Gold Key, 1962 series) #78 ? |
Genre | Fact |
Notes | Various interesting facts. |
Characters | Oswald the Rabbit; Wally the Walrus |
Synopsis | Oswald needs Wally's help for his experiments on space travel and he thinks that if he can get Wally airborne he'll be willing to help, but it turns out to be harder than it looks. |
Genre | Funny Animals |
Characters | Woody Woodpecker |
Notes | A riddle quiz. |
Characters | Andy Panda; Charlie Chicken; Cap'n Sly (Dead-Eye Richard); Mister Morg |
Synopsis | Andy Panda and Charlie Chicken are shanghaied and forced to help Cap'n Sly on his hunt for The Tiger Whale. |
Genre | Funny Animals |
Characters | Eugene L. Parsons; J. Richard Dalmolin; Pamela Haught; Jacque Day |
Synopsis | The story of Eugene L. Parsons and J. Richard Dalmolin, two Carnegie Hero Fund Medal winners. |
Genre | Fact |
Notes | Includes spot illustration of Carnegie Hero Fund Medal. |
Characters | Homer Pigeon; Red Cardinal; Carrie; Cap'n Dirk; Slinky |
Synopsis | While spying on Red Cardinal and Carrie on the beach Homer sees pirates bury treasure, but he gets into all kinds of trouble trying to find it. |
Genre | Funny Animals |
Characters | Space Mouse; Dr. Rodent Rocket; Size, King of Rodentia |
Synopsis | Dr. Rocket invents the "Lunar Leaper," a pogo-stick designed to hop from planet to planet. Space Mouse is picked to test it. |
Genre | Funny Animals; Science Fiction |
Pencils | John Carey |
Inks | John Carey |
Reprinted | from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #1244 (November 1961 - January 1962) [original layout=8 pages] |
Characters | Little Emma; Henry Arbuckle; Pancho; Geronimo |
Synopsis | Little Emma is a small old train that Henry Arbuckle buys and then uses to transport copper in Arizona territory. Because Little Emma is so small it appears that she will be replaced by a larger train until something happens on what was to be her last haul. |
Genre | Western |
Characters | Chilly Willy |
Notes | A word puzzle. |
Characters | Sugarfoot; Ma; Pa; Fleetfoot |
Synopsis | Pa uses all of his money to buy a new tractor so that Sugarfoot can retire but Sugarfoot thinks that Pa is going to put him down so he destroys the tractor. Sugarfoot overhears Pa tell Ma that the tractor was to help him but it is too late because Pa has seen Sugarfoot destroy the tractor. Pa throws him off the farm so Sugarfoot sets out to make enough money for Pa to buy another tractor. |
Genre | Children |
Notes | Title is taken from the contents page. The first sentence is "Once upon a time there was a horse named sugarfoot...". |
Characters | Knothead; Splinter |
Notes | A memory game. |
Characters | Winnie; Knothead; Splinter; "Glitter Glen" |
Synopsis | Knothead and Splinter cause trouble when they fake a murder at home so Winnie tries to take them out so they won't cause any more trouble. Instead of staying out of trouble they end up in the middle of a real robbery investigation. |
Genre | Funny Animals |
Characters | Oswald the Rabbit; Floyd; Lloyd |
Notes | A Dot-To-Dot Puzzle. |
Characters | Space Mouse |
Notes | A Dot-To-Dot Puzzle. |
Characters | Mickey Mouse; Donald Duck; Uncle Scrooge; Goofy; Pluto; Doc; Chip 'n' Dale; Jiminy Cricket |
Script | ? (promo copy) |
Notes | Promo for Walt Disney Comics Digest with an illustration of various Walt Disney characters. |
Characters | Cracky |
Script | ? (promo copy) |
Notes | Advertisement for Pencil Puzzle Fun #? with a listing of many of the kinds of puzzles in it and a reprint of the front cover. |