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- Dick Dastardly
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- box tops; cereal
Ad offering membership in Dick Dastardly’s Vulture Squadron for 25-cents and one Kellogg’s cereal box top.
Character and concept based on the animated TV series “Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines” (1969). Color ad on inside front cover.
- Script
- Don R. Christensen
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- Phil De Lara
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- Phil De Lara
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- Western Publishing Production Shop
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- Rome Siemon
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- For weeks Porky has been redecorating this seashore cottage…
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- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Porky Pig; Cicero Pig; Yosemite Sam; Petunia Pig; Harold J. Van Bucks; butler
- Synopsis
- Porky’s efforts toward redecorating a seashore cottage in order to sell it, are complicated by a cannon-firing, cutlass wielding Yosemite Sam.
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- cannon; cutlass; paint job; redecorating; seashore cottage; series of mishaps; wreaking havoc; wrong impression
New story. In this story, Yosemite Sam is known as "Sea Rover Sam".
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- Don R. Christensen
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- Phil De Lara
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- Phil De Lara
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- Western Publishing Production Shop
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- Rome Siemon
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- Ahoy, lads! Welcome aboard the old showboat!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Porky Pig; Cicero Pig; Captain Hanky Hog; Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd; Petunia Pig; Caroline Fairweather (lost little girl); the Fairweather family; Luke and Paw (hillbillies)
- Synopsis
- Cicero is delighted to get an important part in Captain Hanky Hog’s showboat presentation of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, but that changes when he finds that he is to be Little Eva. When Cicero suffers a black eye, Captain Hanky puts the curly wig on Porky, and insists that the show go on. Porky ducks out at the last moment, rather than be seen by Petunia, Elmer, and Bugs, only to be mistaken for a lost little girl by a pair of hillbillies.
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- play; showboat; wrong impression; “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
"Reprinted by popular demand".
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- 'Goodbye, Mr. Chips' Film Triumph Now Delights in Gold Key Version
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- Bugs Bunny; Yosemite Sam; François (character from Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery)
- Synopsis
- A list of all Gold Key Comics on sale in March 1970, with focus blurbs on Dark Shadows, The Close Shaves of Pauline Peril (first issue), Bugs Bunny, The Twilight Zone, Goodbye Mr. Chips (movie comic), and Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery. No issue numbers are given.
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- issue previews
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- Our readers (that's you) are proving every day what talented artists they are.
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- drawings; monsters
Drawings of various monsters, submitted by readers.
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- Genre
- humor
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- alien
- Synopsis
- A traveler is stranded on a country road with no gas, but he’s an alien.
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- alien; flying saucer
Pantomime. Top half of page.
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- ...When you train at home with NADS for a high pay job in drafting!
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- careers by mail; drafting
Ad offering a home-study course in drafting. Includes testimonies from two persons whose head-shot photographs appear in the ad. Black and white ad (with some red lettering) on lower half of page.
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- What has four legs but only one foot?
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- Characters
- Gold Key Kid
- Keywords
- jokes; riddles
Jokes and riddles submitted by readers.
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- Tony Strobl
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- John Liggera
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- Western Publishing Production Shop
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- typeset
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- Mary Jane skipped happily up the broad white steps onto her friend Linda’s front porch.
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- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor; fantasy-supernatural
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- Mary Jane; Sniffles; Linda; parakeet
- Synopsis
- With her magic words, Mary Jane shrinks herself to the size of Sniffles and the pair work to rescue a parakeet who is trapped inside a piano. They must accomplish this task, and Mary Jane must return to normal size (and hide Sniffles away), before her friend Linda can discover their “shrinking secret”.
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- magic words; parakeet; piano; shrinking; size differential
Mary Jane and Sniffles’ magic words shrinking adventures don’t usually take place in the “real world” (as in her friend Linda’s house), making the “race against time and discovery” an unusual added-element to the series’ norms.
- Script
- Don R. Christensen
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- Phil De Lara
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- Phil De Lara
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- Western Publishing Production Shop
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- Phil De Lara
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- (Ho hum)...Wonder what's new in the news tonight!
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- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
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- Daffy Duck; lion
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- Daffy hopes to stall an escaped and hungry lion with the old “grateful-lion-with-a-thorn-removed-from-its-paw-bit”, only to have the situation reversed when the lion pulls the thorn from Daffy’s foot. Daffy shows his “undying gratitude” with earnest gestures that put the lion through the wringer, despite the Duck's good intentions.
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- best of intentions; gratitude; lion; paw; series of mishaps; thorn
"Reprinted by popular demand".
- Script
- Don R. Christensen
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- Phil De Lara
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- Phil De Lara
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- Western Publishing Production Shop
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- Phil De Lara
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- Hi, Petunia! I thought I'd drop over!
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- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
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- Porky Pig; Petunia Pig; mob of bargain shoppers
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- There’s a big bargain sale at the local department store today but, despite needing a new dress, Petunia opts to stay home rather than fight the mob of bargain shoppers. Porky drags her out to show her how to negotiate the crowds and chaos. …He doesn’t. …Not at all.
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- buyer beware; counter fights; crowded bus; department store; elevator; elevator shaft; escalator; know-it-all; mob of shoppers; ripping and tearing of clothing; sale; series of mishaps; trampled
"Reprinted by popular demand".
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- Tony Strobl
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- John Liggera
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- Western Publishing Production Shop
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- There are a lot of places that Porky would like to visit, and the names of some of them are hidden in these rebus puzzles.
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Porky Pig; Petunia Pig; Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd
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- Keywords
- rebus puzzles
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- Western Publishing Production Shop
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- typeset
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- Our readers (that's you) are proving every day what talented artists they are.
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- doodles
Reader-submitted "doodles", made from various letters of the alphabet and numbers.
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- More than one thousand of the funniest jokes, laughingest jokes by Cracky
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- Cracky
- Keywords
- publisher’s-house-ads-not-for-comic-books
Western Publishing house ad for "Jokes by Cracky" magazine. On final interior page of the comic.
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- Be eligible for grand prize bonus awards
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- greeting cards; prizes; sales
Ad for selling greeting cards for Junior Sales Club of America in exchange for prizes or cash and be eligible for a $1,000 college scholarship. Color ad on inside back cover.
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- With fast selling American Seeds
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- Two kids with quotes endorsing this enterprise, seen in black and white photos.
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- prizes; sales; seeds
Ad for selling vegetable and flower seeds for the American Seed Co., in exchange for prizes or money. Color ad on back cover.