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Issue: Boys' and Girls' March of Comics #99

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Publication Date: July 1953

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Issues: #99 of 488 Issues (1633 Printings)

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Variant: Blue Bird at Schiff's Shoe Store

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Western

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Volume: none

Pages: 36

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Price: none entered

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Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
10 (2 stories, 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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Variants3

2 Boys' and Girls' March of Comics #99 [No Ad]

Boys' and Girls' March of Comics #99 [Blue Bird at Schiff's Shoe Store]

Boys' and Girls' March of Comics #99 [Sears]

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Content Items (10 total)

A Big Fan of Sliced Bread

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic, artistic

Character(s): Porky Pig

Synopsis: Porky uses the rotating blades of an electric fan to make slices out of a loaf of bread.

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Pages: 1

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Notes: Inside front cover.

The Ostrich Horse Race

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic, artistic

Character(s): Porky Pig; Petunia Pig; Oscar (ostrich); Cicero Pig; Bugs Bunny; sand-truck driver; Jenks (newspaper reporter); Mr. Grumpus; Black Warrior (Mr. Grumpus' racehorse); Black Warrior's jockey

First Line: Oh, Porky, thank goodness! You're here just in time to help me with Oscar!

Synopsis: Porky enters Petunia's ostrich in a horse race.

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Pages: 26

Notes: Twenty-six pages in this format is the equivalent of thirteen standard comic book pages. Writer Christensen's name appears as an author on a book's cover on page 10, panel 4.

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Synopsis: 4 pages of puzzles

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Pages: 4

Cane-Enabled Skiing

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Genres: anthropomorphic, artistic

Character(s): Porky Pig; Cicero Pig; Bugs Bunny

First Line: Quick, Bugs...I want to buy two canes!

Synopsis: Cicero buys two canes off of Pharmacist Bugs to use as skis on a downhill oil-slick.

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Pages: 2

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Finish Porky's House

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Porky Pig

First Line: Porky wants to complete his house.

Synopsis: Trace or cut-out a series of provided shapes and properly fit them in the available space with the frame of Porky's unfinished wall.

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Who Will Win the Cake?

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Porky Pig; Petunia Pig; four separate versions of Cicero Pig

First Line: First take an ordinary pen point and make a spinner of it as above.

Synopsis: Up to four players race through a winding and intersecting course to "win" Petunia's cake at the end of the course.

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Pages: 2

Notes: A spinner to determine the number of spaces-to-advance is constructed using a fountain pen point. Pennies or buttons are used as markers. Four distinct versions of Cicero designate the different racers, rather than one "Cicero" and three other Warner characters. The race course is nicely spread over two oblong pages.

The Stormy Maze

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Porky Pig; Petunia Pig

First Line: Porky Pig wants to help Petunia who is lost in the rain.

Synopsis: Guide Porky through a maze (in the form of a rainstorm) to an umbrella, and then back to Petunia.

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Pages: 1

Notes: At the end of the initial "instructions caption" Petunia is misspelled as "Pertunia".

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Notes: Inside back cover.

Smiling Porky

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Porky Pig

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Notes: Two-thirds of this back cover is reserved for the logo and ad copy for whichever firm is distributing the issue as a giveaway premium. This space can be blank if no named sponsor. The top half of the remaining third of the cover space consists of rectangle containing a smiling Porky head by Ralph Heimdahl. The entire rectangle, including the image of Porky, is colored blue. No additional coloring. The lower half of the remaining third of the cover space contains the "March of Comics" logo.