(January-February 1952)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- bi-monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand:
- A Dell Comic
- Editing:
- ?
- Format:
- Color; standard Golden Age and later Silver Age formats; saddle-stitched; newsprint; was an On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "PORKY PIG, TROUBLE IN THE BIG TREES, No. 370." Code number is P.P.O.S. #370-521.
Copyright 1952 by Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. 23rd of 27 Porky Pig Four Colors.
[New TV Set]
Porky Pig / comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- John Carey
- Inks:
- John Carey
- Letters:
- John Carey
Content Information
- Genre:
- funny animal
- Characters:
- Porky Pig; Petunia Pig; Cicero Pig
- Synopsis:
- When Porky buys a new TV set, he gives his old one to Cicero.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
'Trouble in the Big Trees"
Porky Pig / comic story / 12 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Don R. Christensen
- Pencils:
- Fred Abranz
- Inks:
- Fred Abranz
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- funny animal
- Characters:
- Porky Pig; Petunia Pig; Cicero Pig
- Synopsis:
- When Porky repairs Petunia's damaged tree, Cicero takes a misleading photo that makes the tree seem to be huge. The government, thinking Porky is a great tree surgeon, sends him to Big Tree National Park to find what ails "General Smedley," the worlds oldest and tallest redwood tree. Porky and Cicero find a pesky woodpecker is pecking holes all over the tree and have to figure out a way to get him to stop.
Indexer Notes
The tree's name, "General Smedley," is a takeoff on the "General Sherman" tree in Sequoia National Park, which is one of the tallest trees in the world. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
The Smug Smugglers
Porky Pig / comic story / 11 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- John Carey
- Inks:
- John Carey
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- John Carey
Content Information
- Genre:
- funny animal
- Characters:
- Porky Pig; Sylvester
- Synopsis:
- Porky and Sylvester are window washers, who advertise they will "wash all your windows for 50 cents." They get tricked into washing all the windows of a huge apartment building and get involved with diamond smugglers, who are using the building as a base of operations.
Indexer Notes
Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
[Sweater Problem]
Porky Pig / comic story / 9 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Fred Abranz
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- funny animal
- Characters:
- Porky Pig; Petunia Pig; Sylvester; Beaky Buzzard (cameo); Elmer Fudd (cameo)
- Synopsis:
- Petunia decides that a sweater she gave Porky would be a perfect entry in a sewing club contest. However, Porky has given the sweater away to Beaky Buzzard and a moth has made a meal of it. Porky and Sylvester then try to knit a new sweater themselves.
Indexer Notes
Pencils credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
[No Water]
Porky Pig / comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- John Carey
- Inks:
- John Carey
- Letters:
- John Carey
Content Information
- Genre:
- funny animal
- Characters:
- Porky Pig; Cicero Pig
- Synopsis:
- When Porky's water is shut off to repair a leak, Cicero comes up with a way to get some water.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
[Wild Driving]
Porky Pig / comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- John Carey
- Inks:
- John Carey
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- John Carey
Content Information
- Genre:
- funny animal
- Characters:
- Porky Pig; Petunia Pig
- Synopsis:
- Porky takes Petunia on a wild ride in order to get a movie on time.
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
Table of Contents
-
1.
[New TV Set]
Porky Pig -
2.
'Trouble in the Big Trees"
Porky Pig -
3.
The Smug Smugglers
Porky Pig -
4.
[Sweater Problem]
Porky Pig -
5.
[No Water]
Porky Pig -
6.
[Wild Driving]
Porky Pig
- Merlin Haas
- 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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