Golden Comics Digest
#32
[Gold Key]
(September 1973)
Western,
1969 Series
- Price
- 0.50 USD
- Pages
- 132
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1973-07-17
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Western Publishing Company Inc.
- Brand
-
Gold Key
- Dell/Western Eight-Digit Code
- 92401-309
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1973 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
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Golden Comics Digest Contents
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 2 pages
- Letters
- Typeset
Indexer Notes
Contents page with title of each story, the pages they are in the book and the indicia.
The Golden Fleece
Woody Woodpecker / comic story / 14 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Woody Woodpecker; Splinter; Knothead; pirates; a sheep; Mabel; Horace; cruise ship crew
- Synopsis
- Woody and the kids are attacked by pirates and escape to an island with a sheep that appears to be the Golden Fleece of legend. When the pirates arrive and try to capture the sheep, Woody and the kids escape again, to be picked up by a cruise ship.
- Reprints
-
from Walter Lantz Woody Woodpecker (Dell, 1952 series) #68 (August-September 1961) [original layout=10 pages; reprint layout=14 pages]
-
Indexer Notes
Cruise ship is "S.S. Tourina."
Money Maker
Windy and Breezy / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Windy; Breezy; Roscoe
- Synopsis
- When Breezy wants to buy a new house Windy tells him that he'll have to get a job. When he tries to sell rocks he finds that one is enough to buy that house.
- Reprints
- from Walter Lantz New Funnies (Dell, 1946 series) #281 (January-February 1961)
-
Weather Warfare
Chilly Willy / comic story / 11 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Chilly Willy; Cap'n Pete; Waldo Whale; Cap'n White; Sir Snow; Mr. Wind; Terry Twister
- Synopsis
- Chilly and his friends get caught in a winter weather war between Cap'n White, Sir Snow, and Mr. Wind.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #1212 - Walter Lantz Chilly Willy (September-November 1961) [reprint layout=11 pages; original layout=8 pages]
-
Indexer Notes
Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Door-to-Door Danger
Sam 'n' Simian / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Sam; Simian; Mr. Bullgrinch
- Synopsis
- Sam and Simian get in trouble with selling things door to door so they decide to get into another line of work that seems safer.
Frontier Daze
Woody Woodpecker / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Woody Woodpecker; Knothead; Splinter; Carl; The Sheriff
- Synopsis
- When Woody is arrested on Frontier Days for not wearing western clothes he trips while in the jail and wakes up thinking he is Wild and Wooly Woody, the Wickedest Woodpecker of the West. When he escapes from jail the Sheriff, Knothead and Splinter try to catch him before he can pull a real robbery.
- Reprints
- from Walter Lantz Woody Woodpecker (Western, 1962 series) #78 (December 1963)
- from Walter Lantz Woody Woodpecker (Gold Key, 1962 series) #78 ?
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[no title indexed]
Did You Know... / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- That very few animals see any color other than grey!
- Genre
- non-fiction
Indexer Notes
Various interesting facts.
Outer Space Race
Oswald the Rabbit / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Oswald the Rabbit; Wally the Walrus
- Synopsis
- Oswald needs Wally's help for his experiments on space travel and he thinks that if he can get Wally airborne he'll be willing to help, but it turns out to be harder than it looks.
- Reprints
- from Walter Lantz Woody Woodpecker (Dell, 1952 series) #66 (April-May 1961)
-
What and Y Riddle Quiz
Woody Woodpecker / activity / 1 page
- Characters
- Woody Woodpecker
Indexer Notes
A riddle quiz.
Voyage of the Vulture
Andy Panda / comic story / 20 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Andy Panda; Charlie Chicken; Cap'n Sly (Dead-Eye Richard); Mister Morg
- Synopsis
- Andy Panda and Charlie Chicken are shanghaied and forced to help Cap'n Sly on his hunt for The Tiger Whale.
[Eugene L. Parsons and J. Richard Dalmolin]
Young Heroes / text article / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Eugene L. Parsons; J. Richard Dalmolin; Pamela Haught; Jacque Day
- Synopsis
- The story of Eugene L. Parsons and J. Richard Dalmolin, two Carnegie Hero Fund Medal winners.
Indexer Notes
Includes spot illustration of Carnegie Hero Fund Medal.
Pirate Plunder
Homer Pigeon / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Homer Pigeon; Red Cardinal; Carrie; Cap'n Dirk; Slinky
- Synopsis
- While spying on Red Cardinal and Carrie on the beach Homer sees pirates bury treasure, but he gets into all kinds of trouble trying to find it.
- Reprints
- from Walter Lantz Woody Woodpecker (Dell, 1952 series) #61 (June-July 1960)
-
Hop to It
Space Mouse / comic story / 11 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; science fiction
- Characters
- Space Mouse; Dr. Rodent Rocket; Size, King of Rodentia
- Synopsis
- Dr. Rocket invents the "Lunar Leaper," a pogo-stick designed to hop from planet to planet. Space Mouse is picked to test it.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #1244 - Walter Lantz Space Mouse (November 1961 - January 1962) [original layout=8 pages, reprint layout=11 pages]
-
Little Emma
comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Little Emma; Henry Arbuckle; Pancho; Geronimo
- Synopsis
- Little Emma is a small old train that Henry Arbuckle buys and then uses to transport copper in Arizona territory. Because Little Emma is so small it appears that she will be replaced by a larger train until something happens on what was to be her last haul.
- Reprints
- from Rex Allen (Dell, 1951 series) #24 (March-May 1957)
-
Farm Foolery
Sugar Foot / comic story / 13 pages
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Sugarfoot; Ma; Pa; Fleetfoot
- Synopsis
- Pa uses all of his money to buy a new tractor so that Sugarfoot can retire but Sugarfoot thinks that Pa is going to put him down so he destroys the tractor. Sugarfoot overhears Pa tell Ma that the tractor was to help him but it is too late because Pa has seen Sugarfoot destroy the tractor. Pa throws him off the farm so Sugarfoot sets out to make enough money for Pa to buy another tractor.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Title is taken from the contents page. The first sentence is "Once upon a time there was a horse named sugarfoot...".
Memory Game
Woody Woodpecker / activity / 1 page
- Characters
- Knothead; Splinter
Indexer Notes
A memory game.
The Case of the Wishing Well
Winnie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Winnie; Knothead; Splinter; "Glitter Glen"
- Synopsis
- Knothead and Splinter cause trouble when they fake a murder at home so Winnie tries to take them out so they won't cause any more trouble. Instead of staying out of trouble they end up in the middle of a real robbery investigation.
Dot-to-Dot
Oswald / activity / 1 page
- Characters
- Oswald the Rabbit; Floyd; Lloyd
Indexer Notes
A Dot-To-Dot Puzzle.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Summer Fun
Woody Woodpecker -
1.
On Target for Fun
Gold Key Comics -
2.
Golden Comics Digest Contents
-
3.
The Golden Fleece
Woody Woodpecker -
4.
Puzzle Page
Andy Panda -
5.
Money Maker
Windy and Breezy -
6.
Weather Warfare
Chilly Willy -
7.
Winnie Makes a Wish
Winnie -
8.
Door-to-Door Danger
Sam 'n' Simian -
9.
Frontier Daze
Woody Woodpecker -
10.
["That very few animals see any color other than grey!"]
Did You Know... -
11.
Outer Space Race
Oswald the Rabbit -
12.
What and Y Riddle Quiz
Woody Woodpecker -
13.
Voyage of the Vulture
Andy Panda -
14.
[Eugene L. Parsons and J. Richard Dalmolin]
Young Heroes -
15.
Pirate Plunder
Homer Pigeon -
16.
Hop to It
Space Mouse -
17.
Little Emma
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18.
Mystery Catch
Chilly Willy -
19.
Farm Foolery
Sugar Foot -
20.
Memory Game
Woody Woodpecker -
21.
The Case of the Wishing Well
Winnie -
22.
Dot-to-Dot
Oswald -
23.
Skywriter
Space Mouse -
24.
It's Magic!
Walt Disney Comics Digest -
25.
Kids!!! Know What One Pencil Can Do?
Pencil Puzzle Fun
This issue was modified by, among others
- Steve Coates
- Peter Croome
- Darrel McCann
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Mark Rudnitski (R.I.P.)
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
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