Boys' and Girls' March of Comics #209 [Jumping-Jacks]

(November 1960)

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

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

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

Mars Mix-Up (Table of Contents: 2)

Porky Pig / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script

Don R. Christensen

Pencils

Tony Strobl

Inks

John Liggera

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Rome Siemon

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Gosh, Cicero, every time I see one of these travel films it makes me want to pack up and go on a trip somewhere!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Porky Pig; Cicero Pig; Lerner Vanderbrain; movie director; prop man

Synopsis

Porky and Cicero agree to test a scientist's rocket to Mars, but the scientist forgets to add the special fuel and the ship never leaves Earth's atmosphere. And, naturally, they re-enter on the outdoor location set of a "Martian monster" movie.

Reprints

• in Golden Comics Digest (Western, 1969 series) #10 (May 1970)

Keywords

dinosaur; inventor; Mars; movie props; quest for excitement; rocket ship; wrong impression

Porky's "W" Day (Table of Contents: 3)

Porky Pig / activity / 0.5 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Tony Strobl

Inks

?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The word work begins with the letter "W", and work is what Porky is doing today.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Porky Pig; Cicero Pig

Synopsis

Find the objects beginning with the letter "W".

Keywords

word puzzle

Professor Porky's Puzzlers (Table of Contents: 4)

Porky Pig / activity / 0.5 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Tony Strobl

Inks

?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

What bean does not grow in soil?

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Porky Pig

Synopsis

Professor Porky offers-up five riddles.

Keywords

riddles

Porky's Nutty Quiz (Table of Contents: 5)

Porky Pig / activity / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Tony Strobl

Inks

?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Clues to the questions below will be found in the scrambled names of the nuts.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Porky Pig

Synopsis

Porky offers nine joke or riddle questions, where the answers are the names of different nuts. But the names of those nuts are scrambled and are placed within a drawn outline of the shape of the particular nut in question. Unscramble the name of the nut (using the shape-outline as a clue), and apply it as an answer to the appropriate question.

Keywords

jokes; riddles; word puzzle

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

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

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover.

[Floating Heads] (Table of Contents: 7)

Porky Pig / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Ralph Heimdahl

Inks

Ralph Heimdahl

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Porky Pig; Petunia Pig; Cicero Pig

Keywords

floating heads

Indexer Notes

Back cover advertising space for the vendor giving away this premium. Floating heads of Porky, Petunia, and Cicero comprise the top one-third of the page.