Four Color #48 - Porky Pig
(July 1944)

Dell, 1942 Series
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Price
0.10 USD
Pages
52
On-sale Date
1944-06-16
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
Brand
A Dell Book
Printer
Printed in U.S.A.
Editing
?

Issue Notes

Indicia title: Porky Pig, No. 48.
Copyright, 1944, by Leon Schlesinger Productions.
On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1944 Pamphlets, page 450.

Porky of the Mounties; Porky and the Pirate (Table of Contents)

Porky Pig / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters
Porky Pig
Keywords
Royal Canadian Mounted Police

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

Porky Pig / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Gee! Those are sure super-smellin' pies, Porky!!
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters
Porky Pig; Sniffles; Bugs Bunny

Indexer Notes

On inside front cover in black, white and red.

Porky of the Mounties (Table of Contents: 2)

Porky Pig / comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Script
Chase Craig
Pencils
Carl Barks
Inks
Carl Barks
Colors
?
Letters
Carl Barks

Job Number
P.P.48-447
First Line of Dialogue or Text
M-M-Maybe I can f-f-find something f-f-for Petunia in here!
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters
Porky Pig; Petunia Pig; Bugs Bunny; Uncle Ham; Dauntless; Pierre (villain)
Synopsis
Petunia goes to Canada for the summer, and when she fails to write him for a week, Porky decides to go to a masquerade party as a Mounted Policeman. The wind blows Porky's hat into a boxcar, and he and Bugs are trapped inside and carried to Canada, where Porky is mistaken by Petunia's uncle for Dauntless of the Mounties.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Art submitted on March 21, 1944. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).

Barrier quotes an August 21, 1974 letter from Barks, "a few of the Porky or Petunia faces may have been reworked by the staff artists in the editorial room. All of the Bugs heads had to be redrawn, which pleased me very much. I am sure if my Bugs had been acceptable, the office would have added that series to my workload." In some cases lines cutting through the neck indicate where a redrawn head was pasted.

Porky and the Pirate (Table of Contents: 3)

Porky Pig / comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Porky Pig; Petunia Pig; Bugs Bunny; Captain Blackheart; Captain Wimple (villain); Ratsy (villain)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Porky Pig / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Th-there comes B-Beaky Buzzard!!
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters
Porky Pig; Beaky Buzzard

Indexer Notes

On inside back cover in black, white and red.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Porky Pig / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Whatcha doin', huh, Porky?
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters
Porky Pig; Cicero Pig

Indexer Notes

Back cover.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Porky of the Mounties; Porky and the Pirate
    Porky Pig
  2. 1. ["Gee! Those are sure super-smellin' pies, Porky!!"]
    Porky Pig
  3. 2. Porky of the Mounties
    Porky Pig
  4. 3. Porky and the Pirate
    Porky Pig
  5. 4. ["Th-there comes B-Beaky Buzzard!!"]
    Porky Pig
  6. 5. ["Whatcha doin', huh, Porky?"]
    Porky Pig
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Pat Conolly
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Dana Gabbard (R.I.P.)
  • Merlin Haas
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Jean-Francois Masse
  • Keith Alan Morgan
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Jim Stangas