- Script
- Don R. Christensen
- Pencils
- Tony Strobl
- Inks
- John Liggera
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- Rome Siemon
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Look out, Elmer!
- Feature Logo
- Genre
- adventure; anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Porky Pig; Elmer Fudd; Professor Torina; Bowarti Natives; mischievous monkeys
- Synopsis
- Porky and Elmer are on an archeological expedition as assistants to Professor Torina. While exploring Aztec ruins in a jungle surrounded by a mysterious fog, they find a huge egg-shaped sapphire that carries a curse which hypnotizes Elmer into believing he is the descendent of an Aztec tyrant. He goes to a nearby hostile native village where the inhabitants think he is a great spirit from out of the fog. Can Porky break the curse, and shock Elmer out of his hypnotic trance and back to normal, by uttering a key emotion-stirring phrase?
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Aztecs; exploring; hostile natives; hypnosis; jungle setting; monkeys; ruins; sapphire
"Reprinted by popular demand".
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- typeset
Drawings of various airplanes submitted by readers.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What question can never be answered "Yes"?
- Characters
- Gold Key Kid
- Keywords
- jokes; riddles
Jokes and riddles submitted by readers.
- Script
- Carl Fallberg ?
- Pencils
- Phil De Lara
- Inks
- Phil De Lara
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hustle along there, feller! I have to catch that stagecoach!
- Feature Logo
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Porky Pig; Yosemite Sam; sheriff; Hank (stagecoach driver); shotgun-rider; Del (owner of "Del's Cargo Express" stagecoach line); tall, thin stagecoach robber; Dawg Dawson (short, ornery stagecoach robber)
- Reprints
- Keywords
- creator reference; robbery; stagecoach; western setting
New story.
Carl Fallberg suggested as author, as the story reads like an abbreviated "Mickey Mouse and Goofy" western tale. Michael Maltese is also a possibility but, if so, the story would have more gags in it aside from the ending kicker.
"Del's Cargo Express" looks to be a double-pun. "Wells-Fargo", of course, and a reference to editor Del Connell, which Fallberg had done before in the opening splash panel of "The Secret of Drake's Island" in Mickey Mouse (Dell, 1952 Series) #67, reprinted in Mickey Mouse (Western, 1962 Series) #153. That "Del's" is spelled with ONE "l' and "Wells" is spelled with TWO "l's, points to the additional Del Connell reference.
It seems unlikely that "Del's" would be a reference to "Dell Comics" as the story appears eight years after the "Dell/Gold Key split".
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Dan Spiegle
- Inks
- Dan Spiegle
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Keywords
- editorial feature
Two half page articles on possible careers accompanied by illustrations. © 1970, Western Publishing Company, Inc.