Four Color
#1275 - Rocky and His Friends
(December 1961 - February 1962)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1961-11-02
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Dell [stamp]
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "Rocky and His Friends, No. 1275." Code number is ROCKY O.S. 1275-6112. Copyright 1961 by P.A.T.-Ward Productions, Inc. Creator credits from Keith Scott in his book "The Moose that Roared." On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date.
[no title indexed]
Rocky and His Friends / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; satire-parody; humor
- Characters
- Rocky; Bullwinkle
- Keywords
- cameras; photography; space travel
Contents
table of contents / 1 page
- Characters
- Rocky; Bullwinkle; Boris Badenov; Mr. Peabody; Sherman
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. One or two panel previews of the stories in the issue.
Underwater Moose
Rocky and His Friends / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; satire-parody; humor
- Characters
- Bullwinkle; Rocky; Boris Badenov; Natasha Fatale
- Synopsis
- Boris has a scheme to capture electric eels and use them for power in Pottsylvania. He tricks Bullwinkle into gathering the eels while skin-diving.
- Reprints
-
in Bullwinkle (Western, 1962 series) #5 (September 1972) which is reprinted
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Busy Signal
Mr. Peabody's Improbable History / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; satire-parody; humor
- Characters
- Mr. Peabody; Sherman; Samuel Morse; Alfred Vail
- Synopsis
- Mr. Peabody and Sherman go back in history to help Samuel Morse invent the telegraph.
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Frivolous Facts / text article / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- When two English circus acrobats got married...
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Reprints
- Odd facts. Text article with 1/4 page illustration.
The Interview
Boris and Natasha / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- satire-parody; humor
- Characters
- Boris Badenov; Natasha Fatale; Mark Spot
- Synopsis
- Boris and Natasha go on a TV talk show.
Gingerbread Kid
Fractured Fairy Tales / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- satire-parody; humor
- Characters
- Rocky (host); Bullwinkle (host)
- Synopsis
- The Gingerbread Man story recast with the lead character as a beatnik.
Indexer Notes
The bottom margin of the original art for page one of this story has a personal note from Mel Crawford to Al Kilgore: "Al, You and your 'stupid puns', but a delight to work on, Like man, -Mel Crawford"
Tea Men
Mr. Peabody's Improbable History / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; satire-parody; humor
- Characters
- Mr. Peabody; Sherman
- Synopsis
- Mr. Peabody and Sherman go back in history to the Boston Tea Party.
Noose for a Moose
Rocky and His Friends / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; satire-parody; humor
- Characters
- Bullwinkle; Rocky; Boris Badenov; Natasha Fatale; Fearless Leader
- Synopsis
- Fearless Leader orders Boris and Natasha to bring Bullwinkle to Pottsylvania in order to be a scapegoat candidate in an election.
- Reprints
- in Bullwinkle (Western, 1962 series) #5 (September 1972) which is reprinted
-
Indexer Notes
Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Original creator credits from Keith Scott in his book "The Moose that Roared." Karl Wilcox noted, February 2008, that only the script is by Al Kilgore; the art is by Fred Fredericks.
Food For Thought
Mr. Peabody's Improbable History / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; satire-parody; humor
- Characters
- Mr. Peabody; Sherman; Marco Polo
- Synopsis
- Mr. Peabody and Sherman go back into history to prove that Marco Polo discovered spaghetti in China.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white.
Out On a Limb
Rocky and His Friends / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Bullwinkle; Rocky
- Synopsis
- Bullwinkle plants a fruit tree and Rocky plays a joke on him.
Indexer Notes
Back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Rocky and His Friends -
1.
Contents
-
2.
Underwater Moose
Rocky and His Friends -
3.
Busy Signal
Mr. Peabody's Improbable History -
4.
["When two English circus acrobats got married..."]
Frivolous Facts -
5.
The Interview
Boris and Natasha -
6.
Gingerbread Kid
Fractured Fairy Tales -
7.
Tea Men
Mr. Peabody's Improbable History -
8.
Noose for a Moose
Rocky and His Friends -
9.
Food For Thought
Mr. Peabody's Improbable History -
10.
Out On a Limb
Rocky and His Friends
This issue was modified by, among others
- Weldon Adams
- Chris Boyko
- Pat Conolly
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Jean-Francois Masse
- Darrel McCann
- Donald Dale Milne
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
- Gary Perlman
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
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