Four Color
#276 - Uncle Wiggily
(May 1950)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- On-sale Date
- 1950
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
A Dell Comic
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "UNCLE WIGGILY, No. 276." Code number is U.W.O.S. #277-505. (Note that code number does not match issue number.) Copyright 1948 by Bell Syndicate. Copyright 1950 by Howard Garis.
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[no title indexed]
Uncle Wiggily / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This wash tub has to be fixed, Wiggily!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Uncle Wiggily; Nurse Jane; Uncle Butter; Flattail Beaver; The Skeezicks
- Synopsis
- Wiggily takes a wash tub to Flattail Beaver's shop to be fixed. He then uses the wash tub to escape from the Skeezicks.
- Reprints
- from Uncle Wiggily (Bell Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1948
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black, red, and white. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
[The Frog Pond Fright]
Uncle Wiggily / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Uncle Wiggily; Uncle Butter; The Scillery Scallery Alligator; Nurse Jane; Sammy Littletail
- Synopsis
- Uncle Wiggly and Uncle Butter build a boat, but when they launch it into the Frog Pond, they run into the Scillery Scallery Alligator.
- Reprints
- from Uncle Wiggily (Bell Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1948 ?
Indexer Notes
Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
[The Woodland Circus]
Uncle Wiggily / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Uncle Wiggily; Uncle Butter; Sammy Littletail; The Bad Chaps [Fuzzy Fox; Shaggy Wolf]
- Synopsis
- Fuzzy Fox and Shaggy Wolf disguise themselves as clowns to get into Uncle Wiggily's Woodland Circus.
- Reprints
- from Uncle Wiggily (Bell Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1948 ?
Indexer Notes
Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
[The Prize Pumpkin]
Uncle Wiggily / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Uncle Wiggily; Nurse Jane; Possie Possum; The Pipsisewah; The Skeezicks; Sammy Littletail; Uncle Butter (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Wiggily takes his prize pumpkin to the county fair. On the way he has to elude the Pipsisewah and the Skeezicks.
- Reprints
- from Uncle Wiggily (Bell Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1948 ?
Indexer Notes
Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
[The Pie Snatcher]
Uncle Wiggily / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Uncle Wiggily; Nurse Jane; Sammy Littletail; Bobby; Butch Bear
- Synopsis
- Wiggily sets a trap to catch whoever is stealing Nurse Jane's pies from her window sill.
- Reprints
- from Uncle Wiggily (Bell Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1948 ?
Indexer Notes
Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
[Wiggily the Baby-Sitter]
Uncle Wiggily / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Uncle Wiggily; Nurse Jane; Bushytail; Billy; Bobby; The Bad Chaps [Fuzzy Fox; Shaggy Wolf]
- Synopsis
- The Bad Chaps pretend to be a mother and her son so they can hire Wiggily as a baby-sitter.
- Reprints
- from Uncle Wiggily (Bell Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1948 ?
Indexer Notes
Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
[Helping Twistytail Lose Weight]
Uncle Wiggily / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Uncle Wiggily; Nurse Jane; Twistytail; Sammy Littletail; Uncle Butter
- Synopsis
- Wiggily tries to help Twistytail lose weight so he'll be able to fit into his suit when he's master of ceremonies at the school program.
- Reprints
- from Uncle Wiggily (Bell Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1948 ?
Indexer Notes
Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
[no title indexed]
Uncle Wiggily / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hot doggies! This new hat is really somethin'!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Uncle Wiggily; The Bad Chaps [Fuzzy Fox; Shaggy Wolf]
- Synopsis
- Shaggy Wolf gets a new straw hat and asks Wiggily what he thinks of it.
- Reprints
- from Uncle Wiggily (Bell Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1948
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black, red, and white. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
[no title indexed]
Uncle Wiggily / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A May flower in April! Time for a picnic!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Uncle Wiggily; Nurse Jane; Sammy Littletail; Shaggy Wolf
- Synopsis
- Nurse Jane comes to the rescue when Shaggy Wolf interrupts a picnic.
- Reprints
- from Uncle Wiggily (Bell Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1948
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Uncle Wiggily -
1.
["This wash tub has to be fixed, Wiggily!"]
Uncle Wiggily -
2.
[The Frog Pond Fright]
Uncle Wiggily -
3.
[The Woodland Circus]
Uncle Wiggily -
4.
[The Prize Pumpkin]
Uncle Wiggily -
5.
[The Pie Snatcher]
Uncle Wiggily -
6.
[Wiggily the Baby-Sitter]
Uncle Wiggily -
7.
[Helping Twistytail Lose Weight]
Uncle Wiggily -
8.
["Hot doggies! This new hat is really somethin'!"]
Uncle Wiggily -
9.
["A May flower in April! Time for a picnic!"]
Uncle Wiggily
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- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Tony R. Rose
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