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Issue: Porky Pig #72

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Publication Date: September 1960

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Issues: #72 of 57 Issues (63 Printings)

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Publisher: Flag

Dell

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Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.

On Sale Date: 08/04/1960

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 9 (6 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s):

Notes: On-sale date from 1961 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.

Paper Stock: glossy Cover; newsprint Interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing

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Content Items (9 total)

Cicero the Carpenter's Helper

Illustration on Cover, Front

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Porky Pig; Cicero Pig

Synopsis: “Cowboy” Cicero fills-in as a saw-“horse” for Porky.

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Pages: 1

Flash! Special Offer from Dell Comics

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Dell Comics

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Pages: 1

Notes: Black and white ad on inside front cover. Promo for subscriptions to Dell comics. Premium is a key and coin case. Two one-year subscriptions (six issues each) for $1.00

Goony Goony Island

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Porky Pig; Petunia Pig; Bugs Bunny; Dynamite Denny (boxer); restaurant diners; Mr. Moneybags; sea-plane pilot; Head Goony (chief); Goony natives; shark

First Line: Wasn’t Biff Bopper wonderful, Porky?

Synopsis: Porky and Bugs go to Goony Goony island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean to pick up a package of diamonds. The job is complicated by the fact the island submerges and re-emerges on a regular basis and the diamonds are in an underwater cave guarded by sharks.

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Pages: 14

Battle Royal

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Character(s): Mary Jane; Sniffles

Synopsis: Mary Jane encourages the bugs in the garden to cooperate in order to hold a fair.

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Pages: 1

Henny Pennies

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Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Henery Hawk; Ollie Owl; Foghorn Leghorn

Synopsis: Ollie gives Henery a bag of pennies to not chase the chickens. Foghorn overhears Henery call the pennies "chicken feed," and thinks he's swiped some of the chickens' corn. Foghorn tails Henery as he tries to find a good place to hide the bag of pennies.

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Pages: 4

Notes: "Chicken feed" was slang for a small amount of money.

Perilous Pursuit

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Porky Pig; Cicero Pig; Elmer Fudd

Synopsis: A storekeeper accidentally sells Elmer explosive oil instead of stove oil for his houseboat. Porky and Cicero try to track Elmer to warn him of the danger, but get mixed up with a motorcycle bandit and get delayed by backwoods characters.

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Pages: 12

The Graduate

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Porky Pig

Synopsis: Porky graduates from a "School of Public Speaking," to get a job hailing taxis as a doorman.

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Pages: 1

Notes: The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." On final interior page of the comic.

Absentee Dentistry

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Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Porky Pig

Synopsis: After hearing advice to "see your dentist twice a year," Porky decides that viewing him with a telescope would be sufficient.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Black and white on inside back cover.

Win a Captain's Ride

Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Feature(s): Kraft Marshmallows

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Notes: Color ad on back cover. Ad for "Name-the-Plane Contest" sponsored by Kraft Jet-Puffed Marshmallows. First prize is a trip for the winner and their parents to two days at TWA Super-Jet Pilot School in Kansas City, Mo., a coast-to-coast trip as a TWA Junior Captain, five days in Los Angeles and five days in New York City, and $5,000 in cash.