Porky Pig
#34
(May-June 1954)
Dell,
1952 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
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Dell Comic
- Editing
- Alice Nielsen Cobb (editor); Chase Craig (editor)
[Bird on Golf Ball]
Porky Pig / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Tony Strobl
- Inks
- Tony Strobl
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset; logo
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Porky Pig, cute little bird
- Synopsis
- A cute little bird sits atop Porky’s golf ball, preventing him from putting into the 18th hole.
- Keywords
- bird; frustration; golf
[Scared by Western Story]
Porky Pig / comic story / 1 page
- Feature Logo
Porky Pig [Dell Tilted Block Letters]- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Porky Pig; character in book cowboy; character in book Indian; sheriff
- Synopsis
- Porky goes outside of town to read a suspenseful western novel, but decides it would be safer to read it on a bench outside the sheriff's office.
- Reprints
-
in Daffy (Allers Forlag, 1959 series) #15/1959 (22. juli 1959)
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- Keywords
- book; cactus; desert setting; reading; safety; sheriff; western
Indexer Notes
Black and white on inside front cover. Pantomime story
[Petunia Had a Little Lamb]
Porky Pig / comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- P.P. #34-545
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh, please, Lambie! You've got to learn to follow me... Not Porky!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Porky Pig; Petunia Pig; Cicero Pig; Sylvester; Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd; Lambie (lamb); wolf; costume party goers; costume party judge
- Synopsis
- Petunia is dressed up as "Mary had a Little Lamb" for a costume party, complete with lamb. But the lamb runs away in the woods and while hunting it, Bugs, Elmer, and Porky are trapped in a cabin by a wolf.
- Reprints
-
in Schweinchen Dick (Willms Verlag, 1972 series) #29 - in Daffy (AS Film Inform, 1958 series) #6/1959 (18. mars 1959)
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in Porky Pig (Western, 1965 series) #38 (October 1971)
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- Keywords
- contest; costume party; lamb; prize; wolf
Indexer Notes
Story title is "Petunia's Lamb" in Christensen's notes
[Who Haunts the Haunted House?]
Porky Pig / comic story / 12 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- As agent for the Peachy Realty Company, I recommend this property -- just sign here, Petunia!
- Feature Logo
- Porky Pig [Dell Tilted Block Letters]
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Porky Pig; Petunia Pig; Cicero Pig; J.B. (horror movie director); J.B.’s yes man; Dexter (lead male actor); Miss Glamour (lead female actress); Harold (wolf man actor); Worthington (Frankincense Monster actor)
- Synopsis
- Porky, Petunia, and Cicero check out a house in the country, unaware that a movie company is using it as the site for a horror picture.
- Reprints
- in Daffy (AS Film Inform, 1958 series) #7/1959 (1. april 1959) [part 1], #8/1959 (15. april 1959) [part 2]
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- Keywords
- Frankenstein parody; haunted house; movie-making; real estate agent; wolfman; wrong impression
Indexer Notes
This story has sharper-than-usual dialogue (with Cicero showing a healthy amount of sarcasm toward real estate agent Porky’s zealously pushing the sale of the old house to Petunia), animation-style scare takes and reactions, as well as the use of the parody name “Frankincense Monster”, which was used in Warner Bros. cartoons.
[When Pigs Fly]
Porky Pig / comic story / 12 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Did Porky say what his surprise was, Petunia?
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Porky Pig; Petunia Pig; Cicero Pig; secretary #1; Drenchley (elevator operator); Mr. Mildew (Acme Building vice-president); Mr. Kranzfraz (Acme Building president); Acme Building doorman; Mr. Drattle (Acme Building executive); secretary #2; Joe (police officer); Raymond (police officer); three safety-net-holding police officers; eagle; bear
- Synopsis
- Porky invents a potion that allows him to float in the air, but he can't land until the potion wears off. His aerial travels take him through a variety of slapstick comedy situations.
- Reprints
- in Daffy (AS Film Inform, 1958 series) #9/1959 (29. april 1959) [part 1]
- in Daffy (Allers Forlag, 1959 series) #10/1959 (13. mai 1959)
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- Keywords
- bear; canopy; eagle; elevator; flagpole; flying; incredulous people; potion; safety net; series of mishaps; skyscraper; strange chemical properties; unintended slapstick consequences
Indexer Notes
Cicero continues the spirited characterization seen in the previous story, suggesting the same writer for both stories. The reactions of the incidental characters to Porky’s inexplicable and uncontrolled flight presage similar reactions by incidental characters to oddball situations in the Hanna-Barbera cartoons of the late-1950s thru mid-1960s – of which Michael Maltese was a primary writer. Maltese would return to this idea in the Augie Doggie cartoon “Whatever Goes Pup” (1959), with Augie inventing the flying formula and testing it on poor old Doggie Daddy.
[Elevated Bathtub]
Porky and Charlie Dog / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Tony Strobl
- Inks
- ?
- Letters
- logo
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Porky Pig; Charlie Dog
- Synopsis
- Annoyed by Charlie jumping into the bathtub when he's taking a bath, Porky raises the tub off the floor.
- Reprints
- in Daffy (AS Film Inform, 1958 series) #8/1959 (15. april 1959)
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- Keywords
- annoyance; bathtub; dog; plumbing
Indexer Notes
Black and white on inside back cover. Pantomime story.
[Piccolo-less Porky]
Porky Pig / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- That's funny! I definitely remember putting my new piccolo right here in this drawer!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Porky Pig; Cicero Pig
- Synopsis
- Cicero uses Porky's new piccolo to water the lawn.
- Keywords
- alternative uses; hose; lawn; piccolo; sprinkler
Indexer Notes
Color on back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[Bird on Golf Ball]
Porky Pig -
1.
[Scared by Western Story]
Porky Pig -
2.
[Petunia Had a Little Lamb]
Porky Pig -
3.
[Who Haunts the Haunted House?]
Porky Pig -
4.
[When Pigs Fly]
Porky Pig -
5.
[Elevated Bathtub]
Porky and Charlie Dog -
6.
[Piccolo-less Porky]
Porky Pig
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- Alberto Becattini
- Chris Boyko
- Merlin Haas
- Joe Torcivia
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