(March-May 1962)
- Price:
- 0.15 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand:
- Dell
- Editing:
- ?
- Format:
- Color; standard Golden Age and later Silver Age formats; saddle-stitched; newsprint; was an On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "ROCKY AND HIS FRIENDS, No. 1311." Code number is ROCKY+H.F. O.S. #1311-623. Copyright 1962 by P.A.T--Ward Productions, Inc. Final Rocky and His Friends Four Color. Creator credits from Keith Scott in his book "The Moose that Roared." Karl Wilcox notes, January 2008, that Al Kilgore did not draw all the stories in this issue, and that the Keith Scott book does not actually make that claim. Karl could not positively identify which stories were drawn by Kilgore.
Rocky and His Friends
Rocky and His Friends / cover / 1 page
Credits
- Pencils:
- Al Kilgore
- Inks:
- Al Kilgore
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- funny animal
- Characters:
- Rocky; Bullwinkle; Mr. Peabody
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Bullwinkle (Gold Key, 1962 series) #5 (October 1972)
Contents
Rocky and His Friends / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Characters:
- Rocky; Bullwinkle; Boris Badenov; Natasha Fatale; Mr. Peabody; Sherman; Ivan Hooknik
- Synopsis:
- Previews of the stories in the issue.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Two-panel previews of three stories in the issue.
Muscle Bound Moose
Rocky and His Friends / comic story / 8 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Al Kilgore
- Pencils:
- Al Kilgore ?
- Inks:
- Al Kilgore ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- funny animal
- Characters:
- Bullwinkle; Rocky; Boris Badenov; Natasha Fatale; Ivan Hoodnik; Fearless Leader (over radio)
- Synopsis:
- Ivan Hoodnik, who has replaced Boris Badenov, tries to get rid of Bullwinkle by offering him a free membership in a health club. Boris sabotages Hoodnik's plans.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Bullwinkle (Gold Key, 1962 series) #7 (April 1973)
- in Bullwinkle and Rocky (Gold Key, 1979 series) #23 (October 1979)
Cotton Pickin' Inventor
Peabody's Improbable History / comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Al Kilgore
- Pencils:
- Al Kilgore
- Inks:
- Al Kilgore
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- funny animal; satire
- Characters:
- Mr. Peabody; Sherman; Eli Whitney
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Bullwinkle and Rocky (Gold Key, 1979 series) #23 (October 1979)
Indexer Notes
Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin
The Wishing Fish
Fractured Fairy Tales / comic story / 4 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Al Kilgore
- Pencils:
- Al Kilgore
- Inks:
- Al Kilgore
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- satire
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Bullwinkle and Rocky (Gold Key, 1979 series) #23 (October 1979)
Frivolous Facts
text article / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- fact; satire
Indexer Notes
Text with one illustration.
Babe in Troy-Land
Peabody's Improbable History / comic story / 4 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Al Kilgore
- Pencils:
- Al Kilgore
- Inks:
- Al Kilgore
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- funny animal; satire
- Characters:
- Mr. Peabody; Sherman; King Prium; Paris; Helen of Troy
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Bullwinkle and Rocky (Gold Key, 1979 series) #23 (October 1979)
Egyptian Gyp
Rocky and His Friends / comic story / 8 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Al Kilgore
- Pencils:
- Al Kilgore
- Inks:
- Al Kilgore
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- funny animal
- Characters:
- Bullwinkle; Rocky; Boris Badenov; Natasha Fatale
Shutter Bugged
Boris and Natasha / comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Al Kilgore
- Pencils:
- Al Kilgore
- Inks:
- Al Kilgore
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- sitcom
- Characters:
- Boris Badenov; Natasha Fatale
- Synopsis:
- Boris botched the job when taking pictures of secret plans.
Talkin' Turkey
Peabody's Improbable History / comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Al Kilgore
- Pencils:
- Al Kilgore
- Inks:
- Al Kilgore
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- funny animal; satire
- Characters:
- Mr. Peabody; Sherman
- Synopsis:
- Sherman and Mr. Peabody go back to the first Thanksgiving to find out why turkey legs are called drumsticks.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white.
Nationally Famous Prizes for You
Junior Sales Club of America / advertisement / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Ad for selling greeting cards for Junior Sales Club of America, Springfield, Mass.
Editing
Table of Contents
-
1.
Contents
Rocky and His Friends -
2.
Muscle Bound Moose
Rocky and His Friends -
3.
Cotton Pickin' Inventor
Peabody's Improbable History -
4.
The Wishing Fish
Fractured Fairy Tales -
5.
Frivolous Facts
-
6.
Babe in Troy-Land
Peabody's Improbable History -
7.
Egyptian Gyp
Rocky and His Friends -
8.
Shutter Bugged
Boris and Natasha -
9.
Talkin' Turkey
Peabody's Improbable History -
10.
Nationally Famous Prizes for You
Junior Sales Club of America
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Merlin Haas
- Gary Perlman
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- 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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