Walt Kelly's Our Gang #4 - 1946-1947
(2010)

Fantagraphics, 2006 Series
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Price
14.99 USD
Pages
124
On-sale Date
2010-04
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Brand
Fantagraphics Books [serif, double border]
ISBN
978-1-60699-322-4 Search at WorldCat
Barcode
9781606993224 51499
Editing
Gary Groth

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Our Gang / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Jeff Smith
Inks
Jeff Smith
Colors
?

Genre
humor; children
Characters
Bucky; Red; Froggie; Julip, the goat; Guinevere, a lady wrestler

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

Our Gang / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Walt Kelly
Inks
Walt Kelly
Colors
?

Genre
children
Characters
Our Gang [Froggie; Red; Bucky; Janet]
Reprints

Returning to Our Gang (Table of Contents: 2)

text article / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Steve Thompson
Pencils
Walt Kelly (spot illustrations from various Our Gang comic books)
Inks
Walt Kelly (spot illustrations from various Our Gang comic books)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Our Gang / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Walt Kelly
Inks
Walt Kelly
Colors
?

Genre
children
Characters
Our Gang [Janey; Froggie; Red; Bucky]; a baby turtle
Reprints

[Indicia] (Table of Contents: 4)

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

[The Radioactivity Teleportation Project] (Table of Contents: 5)

Our Gang / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script
Walt Kelly
Pencils
Walt Kelly
Inks
Walt Kelly
Colors
?
Letters
Walt Kelly

Genre
humor; children
Characters
Our Gang [Red; Froggie; Bucky]; Deacon; Oxtail; Julip (the gang's goat)
Reprints

'The Barrel' Escapes (Table of Contents: 6)

Our Gang / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script
Walt Kelly
Pencils
Walt Kelly
Inks
Walt Kelly
Colors
?
Letters
Walt Kelly

Job Number
O. G. #25-468
Genre
humor; children
Characters
Our Gang [Bucky; Froggie; Janey; Red]; "The Barrel" (villain); Professor Gravy; Lancelot (lion)
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Janet rechristened Janey.

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

Our Gang / comic story / 16 pages (report information)

Script
Walt Kelly
Pencils
Walt Kelly
Inks
Walt Kelly
Colors
?
Letters
Walt Kelly ?

Job Number
O. G. #26-469
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Ah, there, Froggie! Are you ready...
Genre
humor; children
Characters
Our Gang [Froggie; Red]; Julip (the gang's goat); Feeney; Professor Gravy; Bruiser Connor; Jud (first man on Connor's showboat); Barrow (grease monkey on Connor's showboat); Boo Boo (clown in the show); Chico; Doc Santos
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Barrow is "The Barrel", villain of previous Our Gang stories, in disguise

[The Talking Goat] (Table of Contents: 8)

Our Gang / comic story / 16 pages (report information)

Script
Walt Kelly
Pencils
Walt Kelly
Inks
Walt Kelly; Morris Gollub?
Colors
?
Letters
Morris Gollub

Job Number
O. G. #27-4610
Genre
humor; children
Characters
Our Gang [Froggie; Red]; Professor Gravy; Julip (the Gang's goat); an unnamed juggler and seller of mechanical talking parrots; Geraldine, the lady wrestler (as yet unnamed); Gentleman John; Siwash Suzie, the silver throated soprano of South Dakota
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Walt Kelly caricatures himself twice: as an onlooking sheriff (pg. 3, frame 3), and as the showboat's cook (pg. 9, frame 3). Gentleman John is a caricature of John Stanley, according to the introduction to this volume.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

Our Gang / comic story / 16 pages (report information)

Script
Walt Kelly
Pencils
Walt Kelly
Inks
Walt Kelly
Colors
?
Letters
Walt Kelly

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Froggie and Red Foil the Horse Thieves
Genre
drama; humor; children
Characters
Our Gang [Red; Froggie]; Guinevere, the lady wrestler; Professor Gravy; Ace; Lucky; Bruiser Connor; Jud, captain Connor's first hand; Doctor Bullard; Jake
Synopsis
A prize horse is on board Bruiser Connor's showboat. Ace and Lucky attempt to steal it for Doctor Bullard and his hired hand Jake, but instead they kidnap a pantomime horse containing Red and Froggie
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Indexer Notes

Jake is the butter black marketeer last seen in "Our Gang Comics" #16

[Lucky Leach Followed to Hideout] (Table of Contents: 10)

Our Gang / comic story / 18 pages (report information)

Script
Walt Kelly
Pencils
Walt Kelly
Inks
Walt Kelly
Colors
?
Letters
Walt Kelly

Genre
adventure; humor; children
Characters
Our Gang [Froggie; Red]; Guinevere, the lady wrestler; Lucky; Jud; Professor Gravy; Ace; Jake Harrigan; Doc Bullard
Reprints

[Squint and Froggie] (Table of Contents: 11)

Our Gang / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script
Walt Kelly
Pencils
Walt Kelly
Inks
Walt Kelly
Colors
?
Letters
Walt Kelly

Genre
humor; children
Characters
Our Gang [Janey; Bucky; Froggie; Red]; the Gas House Gang [Charles Feeney; Egghead (Egbert); Iggy]; Squint Frobisher; Jerry, Squint's little brother; miss Toople (school teacher); Froggie's mother
Reprints
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Our Gang
  2. 1. [no title indexed]
    Our Gang
  3. 2. Returning to Our Gang
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Our Gang
  5. 4. [Indicia]
  6. 5. [The Radioactivity Teleportation Project]
    Our Gang
  7. 6. 'The Barrel' Escapes
    Our Gang
  8. 7. ["Ah, there, Froggie! Are you ready..."]
    Our Gang
  9. 8. [The Talking Goat]
    Our Gang
  10. 9. ["Froggie and Red Foil the Horse Thieves"]
    Our Gang
  11. 10. [Lucky Leach Followed to Hideout]
    Our Gang
  12. 11. [Squint and Froggie]
    Our Gang
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