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Issue: Four Color #1074
Publication Date: February 1960
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Issues: #1074 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: Walter Lantz Chilly Willy
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: DellView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/22/1959
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 10 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "Walter Lantz CHILLY WILLY, No. 1074." Code number is C.WILLY O.S. #1074-602. Copyright 1960 by Walter Lantz Productions, Inc. Fifth of nine Chilly Willy Four Colors. On-sale date from 1960 Books and Pamphlets, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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No Two Alike

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Chilly Willy
Synopsis: Chilly Willy looking at snowflakes through a giant magnifying glass.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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Flying High

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous
Character(s): Chilly Willy
First Line: Well, at least I won't get seasick this way!
Synopsis: Chilly's attempt at building a sailboat ends up with him riding a kite instead.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Black and white on inside front cover.
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Real Fargo Express

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Chilly Willy; Real Fargo Express runner; Real Fargo Express branch boss; two robber wolves; cranky Polar City penguin; tramp penguin; Real Fargo Express Polar City branch boss; Polar City police chief
First Line: Golly! The Real Fargo Express runner ran out of steam!
Synopsis: Chilly is a substitute for the regular Real Fargo Express carrier to Polar City. Two thieving wolves attempt to rob him along the route, and finally direct him to a phony express office to steal the gold he's carrying.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Real Fargo Express is a take-off on Wells Fargo. Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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The Rapid Rescue

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Chilly Willy; Homer Pigeon (cameo); Grandpa Penguin (grandfather of Chilly Willy); ice-mountain climber; giant lummox fish
First Line: Air mail, special delivery for you Chilly!
Synopsis: Chilly goes to visit his grandfather, who can't see well due to the hair hanging in his eyes. This leads to a series of "Mr. Magoo-ish" gags about Grandpa not being able to identify things properly - complicated by Grandpa's decision to become a rescuer of imperiled ice-mountain climbers.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Homer Pigeon just appears in the opening panel delivering an Air Mail Special Delivery letter. Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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The Sea King's Quarrel

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Chilly Willy; Patty Penguin; King Neptune; other penguins; Waldo Whale; Titus Tidal Wave; littering snowbirds; baby snowbird
First Line: There it goes! One of those man-made satellites has fallen into the Earth's atmosphere!
Synopsis: Neptune, King of the Sea, gets upset when Chilly and his fellow penguins dump their trash in the ocean. He threatens to have Titus Tidal Wave (a tidal wave anthropomorphized with a pair of eyes, a nose, and a mouth) swamp their village if they don't stop. Can amateur rocket builder Chilly break the polar populace of their littering habits?
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagGolden Comics Digest #16 published March 1971
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

King Neptune is depicted by classic-era animator Veve Risto as a bearded man with a trident, wearing a crown, with an anchor tattoo on his mighty right arm, and clad in a turn-of-the-(20th)-century full bathing suit - as he might have been designed for an old theatrical cartoon.
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Polar Pirates

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Chilly Willy; Patty Penguin; two penguin weightlifters; seal weightlifter; the polar pirates; polar police
First Line: Come on, Chilly... try your hand at weightlifting, too!
Synopsis: Embarrassed by the weightlifting penguins at the beach, weakling Chilly goes off to a remote part of the beach where he sees three polar bear pirates burying some plundered treasure. Rather than leave a shivering witness to tell the tale, the trio set sail putting Chilly into forced labor aboard their pirate ship. Can a resourceful, non-weightlifting, li'l penguin baffle the bear pirate bunch and signal the polar police? It's Chilly Willy, you know he'll come up with... something!
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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Snug as a Bug

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Chilly Willy
Synopsis: Chilly builds an extension to the entrance to his igloo so he can fish without leaving home.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents". Pantomime story. Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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Turnabout

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Chilly Willy; Bully Bear
Synopsis: Bully Bear's squirt gun freezes as he fires it at Chilly, providing Chilly with an unconventional weapon with which to fight back.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Pantomime. Black and white on inside back cover.
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Five Seconds to Play!

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: sports
Character(s): Frisky Fudgie
First Line: With the score tied in the big neighborhood game, Billy's team calls time out.
Synopsis: Frisky Fudgie helps Billy make the winning shot at the basketball game.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Color ad on back cover of Ad Variant. Takes the place of the Chilly Willy story "Time Out" (indexed below). Ad is part of a series featuring the character Frisky Fudgie.
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Time Out

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Chilly Willy; sled dog
Synopsis: While riding in a dog sled, Chilly finds a way to ease his sled dog's itching from a case of fleas.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Pantomime. Ad variant copies replace this story with an advertisement for "Kraft Fudgies" candy.

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