Boys' and Girls' March of Comics #99 [No Ad]

(July 1953)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

blank page(s) / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

The Ostrich Horse Race (Table of Contents: 2)

Porky Pig / comic story / 26 pages (report information)

Script

Don R. Christensen

Pencils

John Carey

Inks

John Carey

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

John Carey

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Oh, Porky, thank goodness! You're here just in time to help me with Oscar!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Porky Pig; Petunia Pig; Oscar (ostrich); Cicero Pig; Bugs Bunny; sand-truck driver; Jenks (newspaper reporter); Mr. Grumpus; Black Warrior (Mr. Grumpus' racehorse); Black Warrior's jockey

Synopsis

Porky enters Petunia's ostrich in a horse race.

Keywords

horse race; ostrich; rainstorm; series of mishaps

Indexer Notes

Twenty-six pages in this format is the equivalent of thirteen standard comic book pages. Writer Christensen's name appears as an author on a book's cover on page 10, panel 4.

[Cane-Enabled Skiing] (Table of Contents: 3)

Porky Pig / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

John Carey

Inks

John Carey

Colors

?

Letters

John Carey

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Quick, Bugs...I want to buy two canes!

Feature Logo

Porky Pig

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Porky Pig; Cicero Pig; Bugs Bunny

Synopsis

Cicero buys two canes off of Pharmacist Bugs to use as skis on a downhill oil-slick.

Keywords

alternative uses; canes; kids-at-play; oil-slick; truck accident

Indexer Notes

Two pages in this format is the equivalent of one standard comic book page.

[Finish Porky's House] (Table of Contents: 4)

Porky Pig / activity / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Porky wants to complete his house.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Porky Pig

Synopsis

Trace or cut-out a series of provided shapes and properly fit them in the available space with the frame of Porky's unfinished wall.

Keywords

arranging shapes

Who Will Win the Cake? (Table of Contents: 5)

Porky Pig / activity / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

First take an ordinary pen point and make a spinner of it as above.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Porky Pig; Petunia Pig; four separate versions of Cicero Pig

Synopsis

Up to four players race through a winding and intersecting course to "win" Petunia's cake at the end of the course.

Keywords

racing game

Indexer Notes

A spinner to determine the number of spaces-to-advance is constructed using a fountain pen point. Pennies or buttons are used as markers. Four distinct versions of Cicero designate the different racers, rather than one "Cicero" and three other Warner characters. The race course is nicely spread over two oblong pages.

[The Stormy Maze] (Table of Contents: 6)

Porky Pig / activity / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

John Carey (repurposed existing drawings of Porky and Petunia)

Inks

John Carey (repurposed existing drawings of Porky and Petunia)

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Porky Pig wants to help Petunia who is lost in the rain.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Porky Pig; Petunia Pig

Synopsis

Guide Porky through a maze (in the form of a rainstorm) to an umbrella, and then back to Petunia.

Keywords

maze puzzle

Indexer Notes

At the end of the initial "instructions caption" Petunia is misspelled as "Pertunia".

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

blank page(s) / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover.

[Smiling Porky] (Table of Contents: 8)

Porky Pig / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Ralph Heimdahl (Porky head only)

Inks

Ralph Heimdahl (Porky head only)

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

typeset

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Porky Pig

Keywords

back cover

Indexer Notes

Two-thirds of this back cover is reserved for the logo and ad copy for whichever firm is distributing the issue as a giveaway premium. This space can be blank if no named sponsor. The top half of the remaining third of the cover space consists of rectangle containing a smiling Porky head by Ralph Heimdahl. The entire rectangle, including the image of Porky, is colored blue. No additional coloring. The lower half of the remaining third of the cover space contains the "March of Comics" logo.