(January 1968)

Western, 1946 Series
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Price
0.00 FREE
Pages
20
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Western Publishing Company Inc.
Editing
Chase Craig (editor); Del Connell (editor)

Issue Notes

Inside front cover and inside back cover are generally blank. Portions of the back cover may contain ads from various businesses that offered the book as a premium - or may be blank.
This issue is a variant of Boys' and Girls' March of Comics (Western, 1946 series) #313 [Sears]. There exist further variants:

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

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


Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

The Bottled Blabber (Table of Contents: 2)

Daffy Duck / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script
Vic Lockman
Pencils
Phil De Lara
Inks
Phil De Lara
Colors
Western Publishing Production Shop
Letters
Rome Siemon

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Woo-Woo! Melons!
Feature Logo
Daffy Duck
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters
Daffy Duck; Elmer Fudd; Fignewton Fudd (mention); Roman centurion; Roman tower guard; peddler (barbarian spy); barbarian soldiers
Synopsis
Elmer's uncle, Fignewton Fudd, has invented a sound trap that will capture sound in a jug. Later Elmer tries his uncle's time machine and Daffy tags along as they go back to England at the time of Hadrian's Wall. There, they uncover a plot by barbarians to foul a new Roman system of communication along the guard towers of Hadrian’s Wall.
Reprints
Keywords
bubble gum; England; Hadrian's Wall; invention; sound trap; time-travel

Indexer Notes

Daffy wasn’t the first duck that writer Vic Lockman would send back to the site of Hadrian’s Wall – see “The Battle at Hadrian’s Wall” in Donald Duck (Western, 1962 Series) #107 May 1966. https://www.comics.org/issue/20067/

Space Problem (Table of Contents: 3)

Elmer Fudd / activity / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Phil De Lara
Inks
Phil De Lara
Colors
Western Publishing Production Shop
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Elmer opened the door and found his closet a bit overcrowded.
Genre
humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Elmer Fudd
Reprints
Keywords
alphabet and word identification

Indexer Notes

Elmer's closet is over-crowded and he must remove items that begin with a "B."

Daffy's Dilemma (Table of Contents: 4)

Daffy Duck / activity / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Pete Alvarado
Inks
Pete Alvarado
Colors
Western Publishing Production Shop
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Each of the ten words numbered below has a word meaning just the opposite in the other column.
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters
Daffy Duck
Reprints
Keywords
word-matching puzzle.

Indexer Notes

"DAFFY DUCK appears regularly in Gold Key Comics" is typeset at the bottom of this page. On final interior page of the comic.

For its reprint in March of Comics (Western, 1946 Series) #402 (February 1975), the above text appears at the TOP of the page.

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

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


Indexer Notes

Inside back cover.

[Pedi-Painting] (Table of Contents: 6)

Daffy Duck; Elmer Fudd / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Phil De Lara
Inks
Phil De Lara
Colors
Western Publishing Production Shop

Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters
Daffy Duck; Elmer Fudd
Synopsis
Elmer paints Daffy's webbed feet a fresh shade of orange.
Keywords
feet; painting

Indexer Notes

Boot and foot theme continues from front cover illustration. Illustration shares back cover space with logo and ad copy for whichever firm is distributing the issue as a giveaway premium. Illustration comprises top third of page, lower two thirds can be blank if no named sponsor.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 1. [no title indexed]
  2. 2. The Bottled Blabber
    Daffy Duck
  3. 3. Space Problem
    Elmer Fudd
  4. 4. Daffy's Dilemma
    Daffy Duck
  5. 5. [no title indexed]
  6. 6. [Pedi-Painting]
    Daffy Duck; Elmer Fudd
This issue was modified by
  • Alan Hutchinson
  • Clint Maxwell
  • Joe Torcivia