(December 1961 - February 1962)
- Price:
- 0.15 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia Publisher:
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand:
- Dell
- Editing:
- ?
- Format:
- Color; standard Golden Age and later Silver Age formats; saddle-stitched; newsprint; was an On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "Rocky and His Friends, No. 1275." Code number is ROCKY O.S. 1275-6112. Copyright 1961 by P.A.T.-Ward Productions, Inc. Creator credits from Keith Scott in his book "The Moose that Roared."
Contents
Rocky and His Friends / table of contents / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Jerry Robinson ?
- Pencils:
- Al Kilgore
- Inks:
- Al Kilgore
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Characters:
- Rocky; Bullwinkle; Boris Badenov; Mr. Peabody; Sherman
Indexer Notes
inside front cover; black and white. One or two panel previews of the stories in the issue.
Underwater Moose
Rocky and His Friends / comic story / 8 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Jerry Robinson ?
- Pencils:
- Al Kilgore ?
- Inks:
- Al Kilgore ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- funny animal; satire
- Characters:
- Bullwinkle; Rocky; Boris Badenov; Natasha Fatale
- Synopsis:
- Boris has a scheme to capture electric eels and use them for power in Pottsylvania. He tricks Bullwinkle into gathering the eels while skin-diving.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Bullwinkle (Gold Key, 1962 series) #5 (October 1972)
Busy Signal
Peabody's Improbable History / comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Jerry Robinson ?
- Pencils:
- Al Kilgore
- Inks:
- Al Kilgore
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- funny animal; satire
- Characters:
- Mr. Peabody; Sherman; Samuel Morse; Alfred Vail
- Synopsis:
- Mr. Peabody and Sherman go back in history to help Samuel Morse invent the telegraph.
["When two English circus acrobats got married..."]
Frivolous Facts / text article / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- fact
- Reprints:
- Odd facts. Text article with 1/4 page illustration.
The Interview
Boris and Natasha / comic story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Jerry Robinson ?
- Pencils:
- Al Kilgore
- Inks:
- Al Kilgore
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- satire
- Characters:
- Boris Badenov; Natasha Fatale; Mark Spot
- Synopsis:
- Boris and Natasha go on a TV talk show.
Gingerbread Kid
Fractured Fairy Tale / comic story / 4 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Jerry Robinson ?
- Pencils:
- Al Kilgore
- Inks:
- Al Kilgore
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- satire
- Characters:
- Rocky (host); Bullwinkle (host)
- Synopsis:
- The Gingerbread Man story recast with the lead character as a beatnik.
Tea Men
Peabody's Improbable History / comic story / 3 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Jerry Robinson ?
- Pencils:
- Al Kilgore
- Inks:
- Al Kilgore
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- funny animal; satire
- Characters:
- Mr. Peabody; Sherman
- Synopsis:
- Mr. Peabody and Sherman go back in history to the Boston Tea Party.
Noose for a Moose
Rocky and His Friends / comic story / 8 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Jerry Robinson ?; Al Kilgore ?
- Pencils:
- Fred Fredericks
- Inks:
- Fred Fredericks
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- funny animal; satire
- Characters:
- Bullwinkle; Rocky; Boris Badenov; Natasha Fatale; Fearless Leader
- Synopsis:
- Fearless Leader orders Boris and Natasha to bring Bullwinkle to Pottsylvania in order to be a scapegoat candidate in an election.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Bullwinkle (Gold Key, 1962 series) #5 (October 1972)
Indexer Notes
Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Original creator credits from Keith Scott in his book "The Moose that Roared." Karl Wilcox noted, February 2008, that only the script is by Al Kilgore; the art is by Fred Fredericks.
Food For Thought
Peabody's Improbable History / comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Jerry Robinson ?
- Pencils:
- Al Kilgore
- Inks:
- Al Kilgore
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- funny animal; satire
- Characters:
- Mr. Peabody; Sherman; Marco Polo
- Synopsis:
- Mr. Peabody and Sherman go back into history to prove that Marco Polo discovered spaghetti in China.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white.
Out On a Limb
Rocky and His Friends / comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Jerry Robinson ?
- Pencils:
- Al Kilgore
- Inks:
- Al Kilgore
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- funny animal
- Characters:
- Bullwinkle; Rocky
- Synopsis:
- Bullwinkle plants a fruit tree and Rocky plays a joke on him.
Indexer Notes
back cover
Editing
Table of Contents
-
1.
Contents
Rocky and His Friends -
2.
Underwater Moose
Rocky and His Friends -
3.
Busy Signal
Peabody's Improbable History -
4.
["When two English circus acrobats got married..."]
Frivolous Facts -
5.
The Interview
Boris and Natasha -
6.
Gingerbread Kid
Fractured Fairy Tale -
7.
Tea Men
Peabody's Improbable History -
8.
Noose for a Moose
Rocky and His Friends -
9.
Food For Thought
Peabody's Improbable History -
10.
Out On a Limb
Rocky and His Friends
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Merlin Haas
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- Gene Reed
- Roger A. Budnick
- John P. Selegue
- Merlin Haas
- Ken Lemons
- Chris Launder
- Jim Walls
- Terry Vraspir
- Gary Perlman
- Jerry Hillegas
- Craig Delich
- James Ludwig
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Kenneth Blair
- Mike Nielsen
- David Porta
- Matthew Torrance
- Ken Kwilinski
- Gary L. Watson
- Gregg Whitmore
- Max Capp
- Tony R. Rose
- Lou Mazzella
- Rodney Hinkle
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Donald Dale Milne
- Karl Wilcox
- Darrel McCann
- Peter Croome
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