Boys' and Girls' March of Comics #249 [Sears]

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

blank page(s) / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

Mystery Mountain (Table of Contents: 2)

Woody Woodpecker / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script

Vic Lockman

Pencils

Paul Murry

Inks

Paul Murry

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Paul Murry

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Great Uncle Woodleg has a river named after him!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Woody Woodpecker; Knothead; Splinter; Uncle Woodleg (hanging portrait only); Uncle Beakly (hanging portrait only); various members of the Explorers' Society; head of the Explorers' Society; two treasure-seeking fugitives, guardian of the pyramid treasure, natives

Synopsis

Knothead and Splinter gush over a string of portraits of Woodpecker ancestors who have made great discoveries, and cajole Woody into following in their footsteps. Knothead even nags Woody in a dream. An Explorers' Society informs Woody of a region in the "Jungles of the South" where new volcanoes have been known to form and, with the Society's backing and helicopter, the Woodpeckers set off to find and name "Mount Woody". They locate an uncharted volcano, but is it what it appears to be?

Reprints

• in Golden Comics Digest (Western, 1969 series) #8 (January 1970)

Keywords

ancestors; discoveries; exploring; far-off land; helicopter; jungle setting; treasure; unlikely hero; volcano

Indexer Notes

An abbreviated version of this story, eliminating the "exploring and discovery" angle, will later appear as "Perilous Paradise" by Vic Lockman and Pete Alvarado, in Daffy Duck (Western, 1962 Series) #49 (June 1967).

Woody's Puzzle Zoo (Table of Contents: 3)

Woody Woodpecker / activity / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Someone has switched the signs on the cages of the zoo animals.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Woody Woodpecker; Knothead; Splinter; Wally Walrus

Synopsis

Decipher the animal cage signs, which are written in a combination of letters and pictures

Keywords

word puzzle

Knothead and Splinter are learning to draw with ABC's! (Table of Contents: 4)

Woody Woodpecker / activity / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

John Carey (Knothead and Splinter only); ?

Inks

John Carey (Knothead and Splinter only); ?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

?; typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

How many letters did they use?

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Knothead; Splinter

Synopsis

Identify the letters, names, and words, hidden within Knothead and Splinter's drawing.

Keywords

picture puzzle; word search

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

blank page(s) / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover.

[Floating Heads on Balloons] (Table of Contents: 6)

Woody Woodpecker / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

John Carey

Inks

John Carey

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

typeset

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Woody Woodpecker; Knothead; Splinter

Synopsis

Floating balloons with character heads of Woody Woodpecker, Knothead, and Splinter displaying happy expressions - along with the "March of Comics" logo.

Keywords

balloons; floating heads

Indexer Notes

The balloons with floating heads comprise the top third of the back cover. The remaining 2/3 of the back cover space is left blank to contain the name and logo of the business using the comic as a promotional item. The "March of Comics" logo runs three-fourths of the way down the far right side of the page.