Boys' and Girls' March of Comics #16 [Red Goose]

Woody Woodpecker and His Mechanical Man (Table of Contents: 1)

Woody Woodpecker / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Dan Gormley

Inks

Dan Gormley

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

La da de ta dum... Ah the life on the open road! This is for me!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Woody Woodpecker; Mike Canical (mechanical man); Professor Frank N. Stein; electric company bill collector; farm house lady; circus boss; circus cop; various circus roustabouts; circus elephants; freight train engineer and fireman; newspaper hawker; Black Jack (Edward G. Robinson-like gangster); various members of Black Jack's gang; various police; city mayor

Synopsis

Hobo Woody unwittingly crashes at the home and laboratory of Professor Frank N. Stein, who hopes to put Woody’s brain into his mechanical man. The experiment goes awry and the professor suffers an unknown fate, leaving the mechanical man to form an unlikely friendship with Woody - who managed to escape with his brain intact. The two travel the roads and rails together running afoul of an evil circus and an urban crime wave.

Keywords

brain transference; circus; crime wave; laboratory; mad scientist; mechanical man; strange mechanical properties; unlikely friendship

[Floating Heads] (Table of Contents: 2)

Woody Woodpecker / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Dan Gormley

Inks

Dan Gormley

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Woody Woodpecker

Synopsis

Floating heads of Woody displaying various expressions, repurposed from the interior story. Ten floating heads in all.

Keywords

floating heads; repurposed art

Indexer Notes

Back cover displays two yellow strips across its width. The strips are each 1.5 inches high, and are placed at the very top and the very bottom of the back cover. Within these strips are the floating heads of Woody. The remaining back cover space in the center (about 7” wide x 7.25” high) is left blank or contains the name and logo of the business using the comic as a promotional item.