(October 1962)
Western,
1962 Series
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 84
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- On-sale Date
- 1962-08
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- K. K. Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Gold Key
- Editing
- Bill Harris (editor)
Issue Notes
First Gold Key issue. Cover code: 30003-210
Designed, produced and printed in the U.S.A. by Western Printing & Lithographing Co. (per indicia)
All stories have rectangular dialogue balloons, in accordance with the “Early Gold Key style”. Some have borderless panels, while others have panels bordered by pastel-colored rectangles.
83 of 84 pages are comics or comics-related text material. The inside back cover has a Gold Key Comics house ad.
On sale date (month and year) is derived from the issue code appearing in the bottom tier of page one (628).
A largely "Pottsylvania-themed" issue.Keywords change in publisher
Designed, produced and printed in the U.S.A. by Western Printing & Lithographing Co. (per indicia)
All stories have rectangular dialogue balloons, in accordance with the “Early Gold Key style”. Some have borderless panels, while others have panels bordered by pastel-colored rectangles.
83 of 84 pages are comics or comics-related text material. The inside back cover has a Gold Key Comics house ad.
On sale date (month and year) is derived from the issue code appearing in the bottom tier of page one (628).
A largely "Pottsylvania-themed" issue.
[no title indexed]
Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties; Mr. Peabody's Improbable History; Rocky & Bullwinkle / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Al Kilgore (painting)
- Inks
- Al Kilgore (painting)
- Colors
- Al Kilgore (painting)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Boris and Natasha scare up a chiller-diller plot to cook Rocky's moose in Pottsylvania!
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; satire-parody
- Characters
- Rocky the Flying Squirrel; Bullwinkle J. Moose; Boris Badenov; Natasha Fatale; Dudley Do-Right; Mr. Peabody; Sherman; Fearless Leader
Indexer Notes
Art credits from Karl Wilcox, February 2008.
[no title indexed]
Rocky & Bullwinkle / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Start packin', Rock! I just inherited an estate in Pottsylvania!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Rocky the Flying Squirrel; Bullwinkle J. Moose; Boris Badenov; Natasha Fatale
Indexer Notes
Script credit from Karl Wilcox, February 2008. Printed in black-and-white on inside front cover.
[no title indexed]
Rocky & Bullwinkle / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- As they say in the trade--'This must be the place!'
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Rocky the Flying Squirrel; Bullwinkle J. Moose; Boris Badenov; Natasha Fatale
Indexer Notes
Part 1. Script credit from Karl Wilcox, February 2008.
[no title indexed]
Aesop and Son / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What's the story for today, Pop?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Aesop (introduction); Son (introduction)
- Reprints
in Trouble A-Foot
Mr. Peabody's Improbable History / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; satire-parody; humor
Down in the Valley
Rocky & Bullwinkle / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Rocky the Flying Squirrel; Bullwinkle J. Moose; Boris Badenov; Natasha Fatale
Indexer Notes
Part 2. Script credit from Karl Wilcox, February 2008.
Vacational Therapy
Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Dudley Do-Right (introduction); Snidely Whiplash (introduction, villain); Inspector Fenwick; Horse; Nell Fenwick
- Reprints
-
in Bullwinkle (Western, 1962 series) #6 (January 1973) which is reprinted
-
Tee-Vee Jeebees
Mr. Peabody's Improbable History / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; satire-parody; humor
- Characters
- William Shakespeare
The Saga of Sasha
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ? (illustrations)
- Inks
- ? (illustrations)
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- typeset
Finksville Fiend
Rocky & Bullwinkle / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Rocky the Flying Squirrel; Bullwinkle J. Moose; Boris Badenov; Natasha Fatale
Indexer Notes
Part 3. Script credit from Karl Wilcox, February 2008.
This Space Reserved
Boris and Natasha / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Boris Badenov; Natasha Fatale; Fearless Leader
Hansel and Pretzel
Fractured Fairy Tales / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- satire-parody; humor
- Reprints
- in Bullwinkle (Western, 1962 series) #7 (April 1973) which is reprinted
-
Hoosegow Moose
Rocky & Bullwinkle / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Rocky the Flying Squirrel; Bullwinkle J. Moose; Boris Badenov; Natasha Fatale
Indexer Notes
Part 4. Script credit from Karl Wilcox, February 2008.
Rocky Pin-Up No. 1
Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties; Mr. Peabody's Improbable History; Rocky & Bullwinkle / illustration / 1 page
- Pencils
- Al Kilgore (painting)
- Inks
- Al Kilgore (painting)
- Colors
- Al Kilgore (painting)
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; satire-parody
- Characters
- Rocky the Flying Squirrel; Bullwinkle J. Moose; Boris Badenov; Natasha Fatale; Dudley Do-Right; Mr. Peabody; Sherman; Fearless Leader
Indexer Notes
Art credits from Karl Wilcox, February 2008. Pinup of front cover without the text. On back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Boris and Natasha scare up a chiller-diller plot to cook Rocky's moose in Pottsylvania!"]
Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties; Mr. Peabody's Improbable History; Rocky & Bullwinkle -
1.
["Start packin', Rock! I just inherited an estate in Pottsylvania!"]
Rocky & Bullwinkle -
2.
["As they say in the trade--'This must be the place!'"]
Rocky & Bullwinkle -
3.
["What's the story for today, Pop?"]
Aesop and Son -
4.
Trouble A-Foot
Mr. Peabody's Improbable History -
5.
Down in the Valley
Rocky & Bullwinkle -
6.
Vacational Therapy
Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties -
7.
Tee-Vee Jeebees
Mr. Peabody's Improbable History -
8.
The Saga of Sasha
-
9.
Finksville Fiend
Rocky & Bullwinkle -
10.
Return Engagement
Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties -
11.
This Space Reserved
Boris and Natasha -
12.
Hansel and Pretzel
Fractured Fairy Tales -
13.
Hoosegow Moose
Rocky & Bullwinkle -
14.
Rocky Pin-Up No. 1
Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties; Mr. Peabody's Improbable History; Rocky & Bullwinkle
This issue was modified by, among others
- Gary Grossmann
- Clint Maxwell
- Darrel McCann
- Donald Dale Milne
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Gary Perlman
- Joe Torcivia
- Jim Van Dore
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