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Issue: Walter Lantz Woody Woodpecker #145
Publication Date: September 1975
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Issues: #145 of 128 Issues (184 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Gold Key
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Publisher: FlagWestern
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: Western Publishing Company Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/1975
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 15 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Possibly the last issue of Woody Woodpecker to be edited by Chase Craig, as he retired from Western Publishing in summer 1975.

Cover code: 90062-509. Publication date is derived from the last three digits of the cover code (509 = September, 1975). On sale date (month and year) is derived from the issue code appearing in the bottom tier of page one (757 = July, 1975).
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age, then Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy covers; newsprint interiors
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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See You “Wader”, Woody!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Woody Woodpecker; Knothead; Splinter
Synopsis: Knothead catches a fish from wader Woody’s boot.
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Pages: 1
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Scatter Shot

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd; Elmer's unnamed nephew
First Line: Why are we hunting rabbits, Uncle Fudd?
Synopsis: Hunter Elmer is after Bugs until he is given Hostess Twinkies.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for Hostess Twinkies featuring Warner Bros. characters. Color ad on inside front cover.
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Spy Train

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Woody Woodpecker; James Bomb (spy chief); spy on street; taxi driver; agent at Paris airport; Vasilino (spy); Hata Mary (spy, female woodpecker); Hata Mary’s gunsel; spy offering help; various spies throughout the train; various citizens of Bombay; Agent 999
First Line: Who can that be at three in the morning?
Synopsis: Woody is a secret courier aboard a train full of spies.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Similar in tone and climax to the Huckleberry Hound cartoon “Cluck and Dagger” (1960). Appropriate Alfred Hitchcock reference: A notice is put up on a wall of one of the cars of the spy train “Tonight’s Movie – ‘The Lady Vanishes’ Car 12”.
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Get Your Favorite Cartoon Characters In These Brilliant Embroidered Cloth Patches

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Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: Each groovy patch measures 5”
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Various cartoon characters and comic characters are offered as embroidered cloth patches. Sold by Gandalf Products Co.
Between pages 4 and 5 of previous story.
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The One That Didn't Get Away

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Woody Woodpecker; Knothead; Splinter
First Line: Here comes Woody with another string of fish!
Synopsis: Halfway through a two-week fishing vacation, Knothead and Splinter are sick of eating nothing but fish, and want hamburgers for a change. Woody, who enjoys catching and eating fish – and who, as opposed to the issue’s cover illustration, is having extraordinary success at fishing – will not hear of it. Can the kids change Woody’s thinking?
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Editorial Coincidence: The issue’s cover, presumably by happenstance, depicts Woody as a unsuccessful fisherman, while this story does exactly the opposite.
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1001 Free Gifts

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First Line: Over 1001 free items... Yours for the asking.
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Ad offering an "amazing 64-page book lists names & addresses of National Companies, Trade Assns. and Gov't Agencies offering free goodies", for only $1.00. Between pages 2 and 3 of previous story. Top half of page.
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Fun Things! Mail Today…

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First Line: Money back guarantee! Ask for free catalog!
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: A half-page of small, single panel advertisements for various novelties sold by Five Star Gift Co. Between pages 2 and 3 of previous story. Lower half of page.
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Margie Gets Free Gifts for the Whole Family

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Character(s): Margie; various mod-looking teen friends; postman
First Line: One day when Margie was reading her favorite magazine…
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad offering a $1.00 catalog called “The Consumer Gazette” that is good for “over $30.00 worth of free gifts”. Sold by Gandalf Products Co.
Middle left page of centerfold.
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Get These Dynamite Embroidered Cloth Patches That Tell It Like It Is!

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Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: Each groovy patch measures 3”.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Various cartoon characters, comic characters, and counterculture symbols offered as embroidered cloth patches. Sold by Gandalf Products Co.
Ad runs vertically on the page. Middle right page of centerfold.
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The Big Spender

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Woody Woodpecker; Knothead; Splinter; Colonel Gobbs O'Money; two thieves; riverboat captain; various tourists; Jeeves (Colonel’s butler)
First Line: Gee! Colonel Gobbs sure must be raking in the money!
Synopsis: Every year, Colonel Gobbs O’ Money holds an “old time festival” for tourists in the riverboat town of “Sparadime Junction”. Woody gets into the spirit of things by dressing as a “southern gentleman” and flashing around a roll of stage money. Based upon their observations of his dress and behavior, two thieves come to believe that he is the wealthy colonel.
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Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Artist John Carey opens this story with a ¾ page splash panel offering a large view of Woody, Knothead, and Splinter at the festival, with an atypical amount of background detail and incidental tourist characters walking about, for a new story by Western in the 1970s.
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Kids, Roach Designs Are Now Available as Iron-On Transfers!

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Various sixties counterculture symbols offered as iron-on transfers. Sold by Gandalf Products Co.
Between pages 3 and 4 of previous story.
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Fun Tricks Free Things!

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First Line: Mail Today
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: A full page of small, single panel advertisements for various novelty items. Between pages 9 and 10 of previous story.
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204 pc. Revolutionary War Soldiers Set Only 2.25

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First Line: 2 complete armies
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for plastic toy soldiers. 204 pieces for $2.25. On final interior page of the comic.
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Personality Posters

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First Line: Now! For the first time ever, you can order Personality Posters ® an incredible collection of posters from the most famous name in posters.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad offering various sixties counterculture and animal image posters. Sold by Gandalf Products Co. Color ad on inside back cover.
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The Name of the Game is Winning Prizes or Cash

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First Line: Sell personalized Christmas cards. It’s easy! It’s fun!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for Sales Leadership Club, offering prizes or money for the sales of personalized Christmas cards. Color ad on back cover.

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