Four Color
#360 - Porky Pig in Tree of Fortune
(November-December 1951)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1951
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
A Dell Comic
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "PORKY PIG in TREE OF FORTUNE, No. 360." Code number is P.P.O.S. #360-5111. Copyright 1951 by Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.
Tree of Fortune
Porky Pig / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Porky Pig; Sylvester
- Reprints
- Keywords
- fortunetelling; palmistry; tic-tac-toe
in Indexer Notes
Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
[no title indexed]
Porky Pig / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- C-come in, folks! You're just in time...
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Porky Pig; Cicero Pig; Sylvester (cameo); Petunia Pig (cameo); Bugs Bunny (cameo); Elmer Fudd (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Cicero gets a seat in the chandelier when Porky invites everyone over to watch television.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
The Tree of Fortune
Porky Pig / comic story / 16 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Porky Pig; Sylvester; Petunia Pig (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Porky and Sylvester go to the island of Can't Tiki to bring back a rare breadfruit tree, which is guarded by a tribe of cannibals. Along the way they also free a genie from a bottle.
Indexer Notes
The name "Can't Tiki" is a take-off on "Kon-Tiki," the title of a best-selling book by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl about his 1947 expedition across the Pacific Ocean. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Porky Pig and the Friendly Octopus
Porky Pig / comic story / 16 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Porky Pig; Sylvester
- Synopsis
- Porky and Sylvester are divers sent to recover a crate of jelly beans. They get mixed up with a wood-boring fish, an octopus who loves jelly beans, and a pair of jewel smugglers.
Indexer Notes
Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
[no title indexed]
Cicero Pig / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Cicero, if you don't d-do your homework, the teacher will p-put a dunce cap on your head!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Cicero Pig; Porky Pig
- Synopsis
- When Cicero fails to do his homework, his teacher comes up with a modern version of a dunce cap.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
[no title indexed]
Porky Pig / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh boy! Roller skates!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Porky Pig; Cicero Pig
- Synopsis
- Cicero has to use some ingenuity when Porky won't buy him a set of roller skates.
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Tree of Fortune
Porky Pig -
1.
["C-come in, folks! You're just in time..."]
Porky Pig -
2.
The Tree of Fortune
Porky Pig -
3.
Porky Pig and the Friendly Octopus
Porky Pig -
4.
["Cicero, if you don't d-do your homework, the teacher will p-put a dunce cap on your head!"]
Cicero Pig -
5.
["Oh boy! Roller skates!"]
Porky Pig
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Chris Boyko
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
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