Boys' and Girls' March of Comics #402 [No Ad]

(February 1975)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

blank page(s) / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

The Bottled Blabber (Table of Contents: 2)

Daffy Duck / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script

Vic Lockman

Pencils

Phil De Lara

Inks

Phil De Lara

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Rome Siemon

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Woo-Woo! Melons!

Feature Logo

Daffy Duck

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Daffy Duck; Elmer Fudd; Fignewton Fudd (mention); Roman centurion; Roman tower guard; peddler (barbarian spy); barbarian soldiers

Synopsis

Elmer's uncle, Fignewton Fudd, has invented a sound trap that will capture sound in a jug. Later Elmer tries his uncle's time machine and Daffy tags along as they go back to England at the time of Hadrian's Wall. There, they uncover a plot by barbarians to foul a new Roman system of communication along the guard towers of Hadrian’s Wall.

Reprints

• from Boys' and Girls' March of Comics (Western, 1946 series) #313 (January 1968)

Keywords

bubble gum; England; Hadrian's Wall; invention; sound trap; time-travel

Indexer Notes

Daffy wasn’t the first duck that writer Vic Lockman would send back to the site of Hadrian’s Wall – see “The Battle at Hadrian’s Wall” in Donald Duck (Western, 1962 Series) #107 May 1966. https://www.comics.org/issue/20067/

There are five references to “1968” in the original version of “The Bottled Blabber” (Boys and Girls March of Comics Western, 1946 Series #313 1968), with two in the same dialogue balloon. For this 1975 reprint version, none of the references are updated to reflect the new year of publication. For the reprint version appearing in Golden Comics Digest (Western, 1969 Series) #39 September 1974. FOUR of the five references are updated to “1974”, with one left unchanged.

Space Problem (Table of Contents: 3)

Elmer Fudd / activity / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Phil De Lara

Inks

Phil De Lara

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Elmer opened the door and found his closet a bit overcrowded.

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Elmer Fudd

Reprints

• from Boys' and Girls' March of Comics (Western, 1946 series) #313 (January 1968)

Keywords

alphabet and word identification

Indexer Notes

Elmer's closet is over-crowded and he must remove items that begin with a "B."

Daffy's Dilemma (Table of Contents: 4)

Daffy Duck / activity / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Pete Alvarado

Inks

Pete Alvarado

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Each of the ten words numbered below has a word meaning just the opposite in the other column.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Daffy Duck

Reprints

• from Boys' and Girls' March of Comics (Western, 1946 series) #313 (January 1968)

Keywords

word-matching puzzle.

Indexer Notes

"DAFFY DUCK appears regularly in Gold Key Comics" is typeset at the top of this page. On final interior page of the comic.

For the original printing in March of Comics (Western, 1946 Series) #313 (January 1968), the above text appears at the BOTTOM of the page.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

blank page(s) / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover.

[Daffy's Got a Bite!] (Table of Contents: 6)

Daffy Duck / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Jack Manning

Inks

Jack Manning

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Daffy Duck; angry fish

Synopsis

Daffy quickly vacates the fish tank, after being bitten by the angry fish.

Keywords

duck; fish; fish tank; lesson learned

Indexer Notes

Theme continues from front cover illustration. Illustration shares back cover space with logo and ad copy for whichever firm is distributing the issue as a giveaway premium. Illustration comprises top third of page, lower two thirds can be blank if no named sponsor.