Porky Pig #19

(August 1968)

Intelsat III Satellite (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

General Mills; Cheerios; Cheerios Kid / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

The Last of the Big Spongers (Table of Contents: 2)

Porky Pig / comic story / 6 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

Out, lout! And don’t come back!

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Porky Pig [Dell/Western Logo Two Lines]

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Porky Pig; Sylvester Pussycat, aquarium guard; police officer; construction foreman; head flagman; catering truck driver; bank robber; Jitters (butler)

Synopsis

Idle but hungry Sylvester is averse to work. When Porky tries to change that, they both end up as highway construction flagmen.

Keywords

finding work; lack-of-funds; road construction

Indexer Notes

New story. In this story, Sylvester is characterized as an “eloquent vagabond”, as he was in the Bugs Bunny newspaper comic strip of the late 1960s, and in many of the late 1940s-early 1950s Dell Comics stories that starred Porky Pig or Bugs Bunny.

A Present for Petunia (Table of Contents: 3)

Porky Pig / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Don R. Christensen

Pencils

Fred Abranz

Inks

Fred Abranz

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Cicero, if you could find out what Petunia really wants for her birthday… it would sure help me out!

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Porky Pig [Dell Tilted Block Letters]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Porky Pig; Cicero Pig; Petunia Pig; Bernard (Cicero's friend); Bugs Bunny; The Swamp Witch; Agnes (baby alligator); Amelia (Agnes’ mother); Elmer Fudd; two reporters

Synopsis

Porky mistakenly thinks Petunia wants an alligator for her birthday, and gets her a baby one. Unfortunately, Mama Gator crashes the party.

Reprints

• from Porky Pig (Dell, 1952 series) #39 (March-April 1955)

Keywords

alligator; birthday present; mix-up; witch

Indexer Notes

"Reprinted by popular demand". Don R. Christensen's original title: "Petunia's Alligator"

The Right Track (Table of Contents: 4)

Henery Hawk / text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Tony Strobl

Inks

John Liggera

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

“I declare, Henery, you look as black as a thunderstorm!” said Ollie Owl to Henery Hawk one day.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Henery Hawk; Ollie Owl; baby chick; mother hen

Synopsis

Henery saves a baby chick from being run over by a train.

Reprints

• from Bugs Bunny (Dell, 1952 series) #56 (August-September 1957)

Keywords

good deeds; train

Gold Key Comics Club News (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

Gold Key Comics Club / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Reader's Page Airplanes (Table of Contents: 6)

Gold Key Comics Club / illustration / 1 page (report information)

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Pencils

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Inks

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Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Our readers (that's you) are proving every day what talented artists they are.

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Gold Key Comics Club

Indexer Notes

Reader-submitted drawings of airplanes.

Reader's Page Inventions (Table of Contents: 7)

Gold Key Comics Club / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Pencils

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Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Our readers (that's you) are proving every day what talented artists they are.

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Gold Key Comics Club

Indexer Notes

Reader-submitted wacky inventions.

Jokes On You (Table of Contents: 8)

Gold Key Comics Club / text article / 1 page (report information)

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Pencils

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Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Why is a dog’s tail like the center of a tree?

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Gold Key Comics Club

Characters

Gold Key Kid

Synopsis

Jokes and riddles submitted by readers.

Keywords

jokes; riddles

[Bertram’s Bad-News Book] (Table of Contents: 9)

Bugs Bunny / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Fallberg

Pencils

Fred Abranz

Inks

Fred Abranz

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Rome Siemon

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hiya, Elmer! Heh, heh! I didn't know you could read!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd; librarian; Bertram Q. Bunny (great-uncle of Bugs)

Synopsis

Having grown old, and lost his taste for carrots, Bugs’ Great-Uncle Bertram writes a tell-all book, exposing the many secrets known only to carrot-pilferers! When Elmer Fudd makes good use of the book, and the knowledge therein, Bugs pays a visit to Great-Uncle Bertram to try and undo the damage to rabbit-kind.

Reprints

• from Bugs Bunny (Dell, 1952 series) #47 (February-March 1956)

Keywords

tell-all book

Indexer Notes

"Reprinted by popular demand".

Porky Pig Meets the Great Optic (Table of Contents: 10)

Porky Pig / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Don R. Christensen

Pencils

Fred Abranz

Inks

Fred Abranz

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Golly! Look at those eyes!

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Porky Pig [Dell Tilted Block Letters]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Porky Pig; Petunia Pig; Cicero Pig; The Great Optic; theatre patrons; dogcatcher; hotel manager

Synopsis

Porky says he can't be hypnotized, but when he volunteers to be a subject at a preformance of "The Great Optic," he is, of course, immediately hypnotized. A fire in the theatre leaves Petunia and Cicero with a still-hypnotized Porky, who behaves like any animal that is mentioned in conversation.

Reprints

• from Porky Pig (Dell, 1952 series) #40 (May-June 1955)

Keywords

hypnotist; skepticism

Indexer Notes

"Reprinted by popular demand".

Dinosauria Ornitholestes (Table of Contents: 11)

Gold Key Comics Club / text article / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Rex Maxon

Inks

Rex Maxon

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Side by side with the giant flesh-eating dinosaurs were smaller reptilian hunters.

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Gold Key Comics Club

Genre

non-fiction

Keywords

dinosaurs; educational feature

Indexer Notes

Illustrated text article on the ornitholestes. © 1968, Western Publishing Company, Inc.

King Kong (Table of Contents: 12) (Expand) /

Gold Key Comics; King Kong / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Boys, Girls, Men, Women (Table of Contents: 13) (Expand) /

Wallace Brown, Inc. / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Do You Need Extra Money? (Table of Contents: 14) (Expand) /

Cheerful Card Company / advertisement / 1 page (report information)