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Issue: Boys' and Girls' March of Comics #249

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Publication Date: July 1963

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Issues: #249 of 488 Issues (1633 Printings)

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Variant: Sears

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Western

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Volume: none

Pages: 20

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Price: none entered

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Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
7 (1 story, 2 covers) from base issue

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: early issues standard Golden Age U.S.; 1952-1959 oblong; later half-size

Paper Stock: most glossy cover and newsprint interior. early issues all newsprint

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing

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Variants4

2 Boys' and Girls' March of Comics #249 [No Ad]

Boys' and Girls' March of Comics #249 [Child Life Shoes]

Boys' and Girls' March of Comics #249 [Kinney's Shoes]

Boys' and Girls' March of Comics #249 [Sears]

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Content Items (7 total)

Woody Drops Anchor

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Woody Woodpecker

Synopsis: While holding a bunch of balloons, Woody employs a boat anchor to keep from floating away.

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Pages: 1

[untitled]

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Pages: 1

Notes: Inside front cover.

Mystery Mountain

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Woody Woodpecker; Knothead; Splinter; Uncle Woodleg (hanging portrait only); Uncle Beakly (hanging portrait only); various members of the Explorers' Society; head of the Explorers' Society; two treasure-seeking fugitives, guardian of the pyramid treasure, natives

First Line: Great Uncle Woodleg has a river named after him!

Synopsis: Knothead and Splinter gush over a string of portraits of Woodpecker ancestors who have made great discoveries, and cajole Woody into following in their footsteps. Knothead even nags Woody in a dream. An Explorers' Society informs Woody of a region in the "Jungles of the South" where new volcanoes have been known to form and, with the Society's backing and helicopter, the Woodpeckers set off to find and name "Mount Woody". They locate an uncharted volcano, but is it what it appears to be?

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Pages: 14

Notes: An abbreviated version of this story, eliminating the "exploring and discovery" angle, will later appear as "Perilous Paradise" by Vic Lockman and Pete Alvarado, in Daffy Duck (Western, 1962 Series) #49 (June 1967).

Woody's Puzzle Zoo

Activity on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Woody Woodpecker; Knothead; Splinter; Wally Walrus

First Line: Someone has switched the signs on the cages of the zoo animals.

Synopsis: Decipher the animal cage signs, which are written in a combination of letters and pictures

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Knothead and Splinter are learning to draw with ABC's!

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Letterer(s): ?; typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Knothead; Splinter

First Line: How many letters did they use?

Synopsis: Identify the letters, names, and words, hidden within Knothead and Splinter's drawing.

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Notes: Inside back cover.

Floating Heads on Balloons

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Woody Woodpecker; Knothead; Splinter

Synopsis: Floating balloons with character heads of Woody Woodpecker, Knothead, and Splinter displaying happy expressions - along with the "March of Comics" logo.

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Notes: The balloons with floating heads comprise the top third of the back cover. The remaining 2/3 of the back cover space is left blank to contain the name and logo of the business using the comic as a promotional item. The "March of Comics" logo runs three-fourths of the way down the far right side of the page.