Porky Pig
#28
(May-June 1953)
Dell,
1952 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Dell Comic
- Editing
- ?
[Diving Board]
Porky Pig / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Porky Pig; Petunia Pig; Cicero Pig
- Reprints
- Keywords
- diving board; swimming
in 
[no title indexed]
Porky Pig / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Help! F-Fire! F-Fire!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Porky Pig; Petunia Pig; Cicero Pig; Sylvester; Elmer Fudd; Beaky Buzzard
- Synopsis
- Porky causes a bucket-brigade to be formed after he eats too much hot sauce at Petunia's barbeque.
- Keywords
- barbeque; bucket brigade; hot sauce
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
Porky Pig and the Mark of the Gypsy Dagger
Porky Pig / comic story / 17 pages
- Job Number
- P.P. #28-535
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Porky Pig; Cicero Pig; Sylvester; Petunia Pig; King Zeppi; Pelo; Xano
- Synopsis
- After Cicero cuts a dagger-shaped hole in Porky's sunshade, Porky gets a dagger-shaped sunburn on his head. When he and Sylvester go to a gypsy carnival, they find the dagger mark is the subject of an old legend. That leads them to get embroiled in trying to foil a plot by the Black Circle to seize the gypsy king's throne.
- Keywords
- fortune-telling; gypsy; king; legend; sunburn; tea leaves
Tiger Tamer
Porky Pig / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Porky Pig; Sylvester: Petunia Pig
- Synopsis
- Porky's car gets snagged by the anchor of an advertising blimp and he and Sylvester end up in the kingdom of Bakdor. The Rajah expects them to capture the tiger that has escaped from his private zoo and is rampaging across the countryside.
- Keywords
- anchor; blimp; catnip; tiger
Indexer Notes
Story title is "Tiger Trouble" in Christensen's notes.
[no title indexed]
Porky Pig / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I see you had that big fish stuffed and mounted...
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Porky Pig; Cicero Pig; Sylvester
- Synopsis
- Porky gets a big fish stuffed and mounted to try to win a prize at the Sportsmen's Show. Sylvester thinks it a real fish and tries to steal it to eat it.
- Keywords
- baby carriage; fish; taxidermy
Indexer Notes
Story title is "His Prize Fish" in Christensen's notes.
[no title indexed]
Porky Pig / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- G-golly, it's warm in here!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Porky Pig; Cicero Pig; Sylvester; Beaky Buzzard
- Synopsis
- Porky's house gets overheated when Cicero and Sylvester play pirate and pretend the furnace is a ship's engine.
- Keywords
- coal; furnace
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover.
[no title indexed]
Porky Pig / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Boy, oh boy! It's awfully hot and s-sultry!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Porky Pig; Cicero Pig; Beaky Buzzard
- Synopsis
- When it rains, Cicero uses Porky's fan to fly his kite indoors.
- Reprints
-
in Porky Pig (Western, 1965 series) #8 (September 1966)
-
- Keywords
- fan; kite; rain
Indexer Notes
Back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[Diving Board]
Porky Pig -
1.
["Help! F-Fire! F-Fire!"]
Porky Pig -
2.
Porky Pig and the Mark of the Gypsy Dagger
Porky Pig -
3.
Tiger Tamer
Porky Pig -
4.
["I see you had that big fish stuffed and mounted..."]
Porky Pig -
5.
["G-golly, it's warm in here!"]
Porky Pig -
6.
["Boy, oh boy! It's awfully hot and s-sultry!"]
Porky Pig
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- Alberto Becattini
- Merlin Haas
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