Golden Comics Digest #5

(September 1969)

There's More Fun with Buddy L Trucks (Table of Contents: 1)

Buddy L / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Letters

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Indexer Notes

Inside front cover. Ad for Buddy L brand toy trucks and Turtledove brand toy kitchen appliances.

Golden Comics Digest Contents (Table of Contents: 2)

table of contents / 2 pages (report information)

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Characters

Woody Woodpecker (cameo); Bugs Bunny (cameo); Tom (cameo)

Indexer Notes

Table of Contents and indicia.

The Radio Ruckus (Table of Contents: 3)

Tom and Jerry / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Harvey Eisenberg

Inks

Harvey Eisenberg

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Rome Siemon

First Line of Dialogue or Text

How can a guy concentrate on sleep with those mice making a racket?

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tom; Jerry; Tuffy; Dr. Weirdo

Synopsis

Disturbed by the noise from Jerry and Tuffy's radio, Tom moves into what-appears to be a deserted castle. He finds it occupied by Dr. Weirdo, whose mechanical monsters cause Tom to decide home was better.

Reprints

• from Boys' and Girls' March of Comics (Western, 1946 series) #281 (November 1965)

Keywords

castle; monster; radio

The Built-in Diving Board (Table of Contents: 4)

Flip 'n' Dip / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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Pencils

Lynn Karp

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Lynn Karp

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Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Want to go swimming with us, Pop?

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Flip; Dip; Pop; Mom; Trader Dan; (Lou) elephant

Synopsis

Flip and Dip buy an elephant with hay fever.

Reprints

• from M-G-M's Tom & Jerry's Summer Fun (Dell, 1954 series) #2 ([July] 1955)

Keywords

elephant; jungle setting; sneezing

Photo Finish (Table of Contents: 5)

Skrewy Squirrel / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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Pencils

Pete Alvarado

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Pete Alvarado

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Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Rome Siemon

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hmm! Now, there's a guy who looks like he's looking for something!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Skrewy Squirrel

Synopsis

Skrewy pesters a photographer to take pictures of him instead of birds.

Keywords

buzzard; forest setting; photographer

Indexer Notes

New story. Formatted for digest as four oblong panels per page.

The Hot Flier (Table of Contents: 6)

Bertie Bird / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Al Hubbard

Inks

Al Hubbard

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Rome Siemon

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Summertime, summertime, summertime is racing time - Flying fast, zooming high, there's no faster bird than I

Feature Logo

Bertie Bird [Dell Logo]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Bertie Bird; Red Robin; Squilly Squirrel; Hugo Hummingbird; Tim Turtle

Synopsis

Annoyed by Bertie's bragging, the forest animals challenge Bertie to a race with Hugo Hummingbird.

Reprints

• from M-G-M's Tom & Jerry's Summer Fun (Dell, 1954 series) #4 ([July] 1957)

Keywords

hummingbird; race; turtle

Tom's Lock Puzzle (Table of Contents: 7)

Tom and Jerry / activity / 1 page (report information)

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Pencils

Harvey Eisenberg

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Harvey Eisenberg

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

It is summertime and school is out, but Tom is keeping his thinking wheels busy by pondering over this lock puzzle.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tom

Indexer Notes

A word puzzle.

The Dragon Dilemma (Table of Contents: 8)

Mouse Musketeers / comic story / 10 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

His highness, the King...

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; historical

Characters

Mouse Musketeers [Jerry; Tuffy]; M'sieur Poosycat [Tom]; The King

Synopsis

The King finds he needs Tom and his lousy trumpet playing to keep a dragon away from the castle.

Keywords

castle; dragon; medieval setting; trumpet

Indexer Notes

New story. Formatted for digest as two vertical panels per page.

The Downhearted Duckling (Table of Contents: 9)

Little Quacker / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Harvey Eisenberg

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Harvey Eisenberg

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Rome Siemon

First Line of Dialogue or Text

This is a story about a little duckling who couldn't stand the sight of himself...

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Little Quacker; Tom; Jerry; hen

Synopsis

Little Quacker is depressed because he thinks he's an ugly duckling.

Reprints

• from M.G.M.'s Tom and Jerry's Winter Fun (Dell, 1954 series) #4 (December 1955)

Keywords

beauty; ugly duckling

The Pharaoh's Curse (Table of Contents: 10)

text article / 3 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Joe Certa

Inks

Joe Certa

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Let us turn back the clock forty-two years. It is 1922 and we are at the foot of a cliff in Egypt's Valley of the Kings.

Genre

non-fiction

Characters

Howard Carter (archeologist); King Tutankhamen

Synopsis

The opening of King Tut's tomb and the curse that was supposed to affect those involved.

Reprints

• from The Twilight Zone (Western, 1962 series) #9 (November 1964)

Keywords

archeology; curse; Egypt; King Tut; tomb

Indexer Notes

Text with three illustrations. (C) 1964, Western Publishing Company, Inc.

Formatted for digest as 3 pages. The original printing was 1 page.

Topknot of the Big Top (Table of Contents: 11)

Woody Woodpecker / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

John Carey

Inks

John Carey

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

John Carey

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Guess what, Woody?

Feature Logo

Woody Woodpecker [Western Staggered Lettering Logo]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Woody Woodpecker; Winnie Woodpecker; Knothead; Splinter

Synopsis

Winnie inherits a circus and Woody becomes a star performer, despite disrupting the other acts.

Reprints

• in Woody Woodpecker (Condor, 1977 series) #8

Keywords

circus; elephants; lion tamer; Poughkeepsie New York reference; rocket; strong man; tightrope walker

Indexer Notes

Story is reprinted from an undetermined issue - appears be formatted for "March of Comics".

Reference to Poughkeepsie, New York (the location of Western Publishing's printing facilities) page 14, panel 2.

To Sea and Back (Table of Contents: 12)

Chilly Willy / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Vic Lockman

Pencils

Phil De Lara

Inks

Phil De Lara

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Bill Spicer

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Bah! How can a guy catch any lunch with so much competition?

Feature Logo

Chilly Willy [Dell Western Logo 1 Straight Letters Single Line]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Chilly Willy; Bully Bear

Synopsis

Unhappy with the competition for fishing, Bully Bear decides to remove Chilly Willy from the fishing spot.

Reprints

• in Woody Woodpecker (Condor, 1977 series) #8

Keywords

fishing; ice

Indexer Notes

New story.

[Hey, Taxi!] (Table of Contents: 13)

Charlie Chicken; A Golden Giggle / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Pete Alvarado

Inks

Pete Alvarado

Colors

western publishing production shop

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Charlie Chicken; taxi driver

Synopsis

Charlie hails a taxi - and walks through it - to cross water flowing in a street.

Reprints

• in Woody Woodpecker (Condor, 1977 series) #8

Keywords

doing-something-their-own-way; taxi

Indexer Notes

Pantomime.

Cuddles (Table of Contents: 14)

comic story / 11 pages (report information)

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Cuddles (dog); Johnny Pennyweather; Mr. Pennyweather

Synopsis

A small puppy grows into a huge dog with an obsession with burying things.

Reprints

• from Walter Lantz Woody Woodpecker's Back to School (Dell, 1952 series) #4 (1955)

Keywords

burying; Great Dane

Indexer Notes

Based on the 1954 Walter Lantz cartoon "Dig That Dog."

Chuckle Chest (Table of Contents: 15)

Knothead and Splinter / activity / 1 page (report information)

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Knothead; Splinter

Indexer Notes

A page of text jokes.

The Rare Egg Scramble (Table of Contents: 16)

Andy Panda / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

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Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Andy Panda; Charlie Chicken; Colonel Simpleton

Synopsis

While flying in a balloon over a desert, Andy and Charlie rescue a archeologist. He takes them to a hidden valley where they hatch a dragon's egg.

Reprints

• from Walter Lantz Woody Woodpecker's Back to School (Dell, 1952 series) #6 ([October] 1957)

Keywords

desert; dragon; hidden valley; hot-air balloon

The Fame Game (Table of Contents: 17)

Winnie / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

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Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Winnie Woodpecker; Henrietta Hippo

Synopsis

Winnie tries to open a gourmet restaurant, but her customers all want plain food.

Reprints

• in Woody Woodpecker (Condor, 1977 series) #8

Keywords

restaurant

Indexer Notes

New material.

Woody Just for Fun Story (Table of Contents: 18)

Woody Woodpecker / activity / 1 page (report information)

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Characters

Woody Woodpecker

Indexer Notes

A text story with blanks to be filled in from a list at the bottom of the page.

Raptures of the Deep (Table of Contents: 19)

text story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

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Letters

typeset

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Characters

Cap'n Larkin

Synopsis

Cap'n Larkin finds ghostly pirates when he makes a deep dive.

Reprints

• from The Twilight Zone (Western, 1962 series) #8 (August 1964)

Keywords

diving; ghosts; pirates; treasure

Indexer Notes

Copyright 1964. Text story with three illustrations.

The Big Game Hunters (Table of Contents: 20)

Bugs Bunny / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

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Letters

?

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd

Synopsis

Bugs and Elmer go to Africa to capture animals for the zoo.

Reprints

• from Boys' and Girls' March of Comics (Western, 1946 series) #273 (May 1965)

Keywords

Africa; elephant; giraffe; hunting; lion; ostrich; rhinoceros; zoo

Indexer Notes

New material.

Who's in the Zoo? (Table of Contents: 21)

Bugs and Elmer / activity / 1 page (report information)

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typeset

Characters

Bugs Bunny (cameo); Elmer Fudd (cameo)

Synopsis

Silhouettes of animals with the names scrambled.

Reprints

• from Boys' and Girls' March of Comics (Western, 1946 series) #273 (May 1965)

Indexer Notes

A follow-up to the preceding story.

The Rain Game (Table of Contents: 22)

Cool Cat / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Cool Cat; Hunter

Synopsis

The Hunter tries to take advantage of Cool Cat's dislike of rain.

Keywords

rain; rainbow; television

Indexer Notes

New material. Four horizontal panels per page.

A Case of Tweets (Table of Contents: 23)

Tweety and Sylvester / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

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Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tweety; Sylvester

Synopsis

Tweety's constant tweeting is driving Sylvester crazy.

Reprints

• from ?

Keywords

echo; loud-speaker; whistle

Fun Figures (Table of Contents: 24)

activity / 1 page (report information)

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Characters

Petunia Pig (cameo)

Indexer Notes

Drawings made up of numbers. Object is to add all the numbers together to get a total.

The Scarey-Crow (Table of Contents: 25)

Little Pancho Vanilla / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Gil Turner ?

Pencils

Gil Turner

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Characters

Little Pancho Vanilla; Papacita

Reprints

• from Bugs Bunny's Vacation Funnies (Dell, 1951 series) #3 ([July] 1953) [under the title: "The Scarey-Crow"]

In a Spin (Table of Contents: 26)

Beep Beep the Road Runner / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

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Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Beep Beep; Wile E. Coyote; Beep Beep's sons

Synopsis

Wile E. invents a "dust-devil machine" to make cyclones.

Keywords

cyclone; invention

Indexer Notes

New material

[The Snorkel] (Table of Contents: 27)

Porky Pig - A Golden Giggle / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Porky Pig

Synopsis

Porky annoys a man while snorkeling.

Keywords

beach; snorkel

Indexer Notes

Pantomime story.

The Hero (Table of Contents: 28)

Daffy Duck / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Phil De Lara

Inks

Phil De Lara

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Daffy Duck; Elmer Fudd

Synopsis

Daffy tries to make a hero out of Elmer, but everything goes wrong.

Reprints

• from Daffy Duck (Dell, 1959 series) #24 (January-March 1961)

Keywords

drowning; first aid; hero; television

Treasure Trouble (Table of Contents: 29)

Yosemite Sam / activity / 1 page (report information)

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Characters

Yosemite Sam

Indexer Notes

A connect-the-dots puzzle.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 30)

Golden Magazine / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hi, I'm Cracky...

Characters

Cracky

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover. Promo for subscriptions to "Golden Magazine." One year for $5.00. (Same promo as inside back cover of Walt Disney Comics Digest #15.)

Enter the Golden Magazine "TV Star" Sweepstakes (Table of Contents: 31)

Golden Magazine / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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typeset

Indexer Notes

Back cover. Promo for contest in September issues of Golden Magazine and Gold Key comics. Grand prize is a Hollywood vacation for four and a personal appearance on the CBS "Family Affair" TV show. (Same promo as back cover of Walt Disney Comics Digest #15.)