Four Color
#370 - Porky Pig, Trouble in the Big Trees
(January-February 1952)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
A Dell Comic
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "PORKY PIG, TROUBLE IN THE BIG TREES, No. 370." Code number is P.P.O.S. #370-521.
Copyright 1952 by Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.
22nd Porky Pig Four Color.
Copyright 1952 by Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.
22nd Porky Pig Four Color.
Trouble in the Big Trees
Porky Pig / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Porky Pig
- Reprints
- Keywords
- stethoscopes; tree surgeons; woodpeckers
in Indexer Notes
Pencils credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
[no title indexed]
Porky Pig / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What a beautiful new television set, Porky!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Porky Pig; Petunia Pig; Cicero Pig
- Synopsis
- When Porky buys a new TV set, he gives his old one to Cicero.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Trouble in the Big Trees
Porky Pig / comic story / 12 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Porky Pig; Petunia Pig; Cicero Pig
- Synopsis
- When Porky repairs Petunia's damaged tree, Cicero takes a misleading photo that makes the tree seem to be huge. The government, thinking Porky is a great tree surgeon, sends him to Big Tree National Park to find what ails "General Smedley," the worlds oldest and tallest redwood tree. Porky and Cicero find a pesky woodpecker is pecking holes all over the tree and have to figure out a way to get him to stop.
Indexer Notes
The tree's name, "General Smedley," is a takeoff on the "General Sherman" tree in Sequoia National Park, which is one of the tallest trees in the world. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
The Smug Smugglers
Porky Pig / comic story / 11 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Porky Pig; Sylvester
- Synopsis
- Porky and Sylvester are window washers, who advertise they will "wash all your windows for 50 cents." They get tricked into washing all the windows of a huge apartment building and get involved with diamond smugglers, who are using the building as a base of operations.
Indexer Notes
Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
[no title indexed]
Porky Pig / comic story / 9 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Here c-comes Sylvester now!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Porky Pig; Petunia Pig; Sylvester; Beaky Buzzard (cameo); Elmer Fudd (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Petunia decides that a sweater she gave Porky would be a perfect entry in a sewing club contest. However, Porky has given the sweater away to Beaky Buzzard and a moth has made a meal of it. Porky and Sylvester then try to knit a new sweater themselves.
- Reprints
-
in Porky Pig (Western, 1965 series) #8 (September 1966)
-
Indexer Notes
Pencils credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
[no title indexed]
Porky Pig / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Th' w-water department says a pipe is broken!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Porky Pig; Cicero Pig
- Synopsis
- When Porky's water is shut off to repair a leak, Cicero comes up with a way to get some water.
- Reprints
- in Porky Pig (Western, 1965 series) #7 (July 1966)
-
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
[no title indexed]
Porky Pig / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hurry, P-petunia! We'll be l-late!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Porky Pig; Petunia Pig
- Synopsis
- Porky takes Petunia on a wild ride in order to get a movie on time.
- Reprints
-
in Allers Månedshefte (Allers Forlag, 1970 series) #4/1971 (uke 13 1971)
-
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Trouble in the Big Trees
Porky Pig -
1.
["What a beautiful new television set, Porky!"]
Porky Pig -
2.
Trouble in the Big Trees
Porky Pig -
3.
The Smug Smugglers
Porky Pig -
4.
["Here c-comes Sylvester now!"]
Porky Pig -
5.
["Th' w-water department says a pipe is broken!"]
Porky Pig -
6.
["Hurry, P-petunia! We'll be l-late!"]
Porky Pig
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
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