Four Color
#431 - Walter Lantz Woody Woodpecker
(October-November 1952)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1952
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
A Dell Comic
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "Walter Lantz WOODY WOODPECKER, No. 431". Code number is W.W.O.S. #431-5210. Copyright 1952 by Walter Lantz Productions, Inc. Series continues in "Woody Woodpecker" #16 (December 1952-January 1953), even though Four Color #431 is the 16th Woody Woodpecker issue.
[no title indexed]
Woody Woodpecker / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Woody Woodpecker
- Reprints
- Keywords
- bears; cooking; fishing; frankfurters
in Indexer Notes
Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
[Cleaning the house]
Woody / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Woody Woodpecker
- Synopsis
- After Woody gets a room spotless, the ceiling plaster falls down.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white; pantomime story. Story title and pencils credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
[Bank bandits]
Woody Woodpecker / comic story / 12 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Woody Woodpecker; Tackhammer
- Synopsis
- Woody gets involved with two bank robbers during their getaway. The robbers convince Woody that they are filming a movie and Woody helps them escape to a mountain hideout. There the truth comes out and Woody has to figure out a way to save himself.
Indexer Notes
Story title and pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
[A bear in the house]
Woody Woodpecker / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Woody Woodpecker; Tackhammer
- Synopsis
- Woody's rich Uncle Woodrow sends a letter saying his "Pride and Joy" is coming to live with Woody for a while. Meanwhile a trained bear falls out of the back of a medicine show van near Woody's house. When the bear appears at Woody's door, Woody assumes that he is Uncle Woodrow's "Pride and Joy" and takes him in. The bear proceeds to wreck Woody's house before his owner comes to claim him.
Indexer Notes
Story title and pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
[Wallpapering Tackhammer's house]
Woody Woodpecker / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Woody Woodpecker; Tackhammer
- Synopsis
- Woody helps his neighbor Tackhammer wallpaper his living room, with predictable results.
Indexer Notes
Story continues on the inside back cover in black and white and concludes on the back cover in color. Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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[no title indexed]
Woody Woodpecker -
1.
[Cleaning the house]
Woody -
2.
[Bank bandits]
Woody Woodpecker -
3.
[A bear in the house]
Woody Woodpecker -
4.
[Wallpapering Tackhammer's house]
Woody Woodpecker
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Alan Hutchinson
- Thomas Johnson
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Tony R. Rose
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