Four Color #16 - Porky Pig
(1942)

Dell, 1942 Series
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Price
0.10 USD
Pages
68
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
Printer
Printed in U.S.A.
Editing
?

Issue Notes

Indicia title is "PORKY PIG, No. 16." No code number. Copyright 1942 by Leon Schlesinger Productions.

Porky Pig and the Secret of the Haunted House (Table of Contents)

Porky Pig / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Chase Craig
Inks
Chase Craig
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
adventure; anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters
Porky Pig; Petunia Pig

Indexer Notes

Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (January 8, 2008).

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

Porky Pig / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Carl Buettner
Inks
Carl Buettner
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
H'lo Folks!
Genre
humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Porky Pig; Petunia Pig
Synopsis
Porky and Petunia paint an introduction to the stories in the issue on a board fence.

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover; color. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (January 8, 2008).

Porky Pig and -Sh-h-h!!- Th' Secret of the Haunted House! (Table of Contents: 2)

Porky Pig / comic story / 39 pages (report information)

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

Genre
adventure; anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters
Porky Pig; Petunia Pig
Synopsis
Porky and Petunia spend the night in a haunted house, not knowing that it's the hideout for a gang of counterfeiters.

Indexer Notes

Script, pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (January 8, 2008).

Porky Pig Meets Beaky Buzzard (Table of Contents: 3)

Porky Pig / comic story / 25 pages (report information)

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

Genre
adventure; anthropomorphic-funny animals; western-frontier; humor
Characters
Porky Pig; Beaky Buzzard; Petunia Pig; Sniffles; Elmer Fudd; Bugs Bunny; Toby Tortise?
Synopsis
Porky and his friends write millionaire Wilfred Crump to ask for a small loan to buy a gold mine. The letter is found by Beaky Buzzard, who, after he is hit on the head by a baseball, believes he is the millionaire and in a roundabout way gets them the money to buy the mine.

Indexer Notes

Script, pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (January 8, 2008).

[Porky's Movie Star Gossip] (Table of Contents: 4)

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

Script
?
Pencils
Carl Buettner
Inks
Carl Buettner
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Porky Pig; Uncle Sam; Petunia Pig
Synopsis
Hollywood gossip style page of facts about Porky.

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover; color. Text and illustrations. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (January 8, 2008).

That's All, Folks! (Table of Contents: 5)

Porky Pig / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Carl Buettner
Inks
Carl Buettner
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Porky Pig; Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd
Synopsis
Porky paints "That's All Folks!" on the same board fence as the inside front cover.

Indexer Notes

Back cover. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (January 8, 2008).

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Table of Contents
  1. 0. Porky Pig and the Secret of the Haunted House
    Porky Pig
  2. 1. ["H'lo Folks!"]
    Porky Pig
  3. 2. Porky Pig and -Sh-h-h!!- Th' Secret of the Haunted House!
    Porky Pig
  4. 3. Porky Pig Meets Beaky Buzzard
    Porky Pig
  5. 4. [Porky's Movie Star Gossip]
    Porky Pig
  6. 5. That's All, Folks!
    Porky Pig
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Valmiki Annamanthadoo
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Merlin Haas
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Keith Alan Morgan
  • Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)