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Issue: Porky Pig #19
Publication Date: August 1968
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Issues: #19 of 108 Issues (158 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagWestern
Brand: Gold KeyView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Western Publishing Company Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/20/1968
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 15 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Chase Craig; Del Connell
Disclose Notes: Cover code: 10140-808. On-sale date from 1968 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US; later standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Leaning Tower of Ice Cream

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): Western Publishing Production Shop
Letterer(s): typeset; logo
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Porky Pig; Cicero Pig
Synopsis: Porky’s over-stacked ice cream cone is about to topple – into a waiting Cicero’s hat.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagPorky Pig #46 published May 1956
was Leaning Ice Cream Cone [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Intelsat III Satellite

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): General Mills; Cheerios; Cheerios Kid
Character(s): Cheerios Kid
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Facts about the Intelsat III communications satellite - and some words on behalf of Cheerios breakfast cereal. Color ad on inside front cover.
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The Last of the Big Spongers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): Western Publishing Production Shop
Subject Matter
Character(s): Porky Pig; Sylvester Pussycat, aquarium guard; police officer; construction foreman; head flagman; catering truck driver; bank robber; Jitters (butler)
First Line: Out, lout! And don’t come back!
Synopsis: Idle but hungry Sylvester is averse to work. When Porky tries to change that, they both end up as highway construction flagmen.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: New story. In this story, Sylvester is characterized as an “eloquent vagabond”, as he was in the Bugs Bunny newspaper comic strip of the late 1960s, and in many of the late 1940s-early 1950s Dell Comics stories that starred Porky Pig or Bugs Bunny.
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A Present for Petunia

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): Western Publishing Production Shop
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Porky Pig; Cicero Pig; Petunia Pig; Bernard (Cicero's friend); Bugs Bunny; The Swamp Witch; Agnes (baby alligator); Amelia (Agnes’ mother); Elmer Fudd; two reporters
First Line: Cicero, if you could find out what Petunia really wants for her birthday… it would sure help me out!
Synopsis: Porky mistakenly thinks Petunia wants an alligator for her birthday, and gets her a baby one. Unfortunately, Mama Gator crashes the party.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: "Reprinted by popular demand". Don R. Christensen's original title: "Petunia's Alligator"
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The Right Track

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): Western Publishing Production Shop
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Henery Hawk
Character(s): Henery Hawk; Ollie Owl; baby chick; mother hen
First Line: “I declare, Henery, you look as black as a thunderstorm!” said Ollie Owl to Henery Hawk one day.
Synopsis: Henery saves a baby chick from being run over by a train.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Gold Key Comics Club News

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): Western Publishing Production Shop
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Gold Key Comics Club
Character(s): King Kong
First Line: How do you doodle?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Requests for reader-submitted doodles and drawings. Blurbs on Gold Key's adaptation of King Kong, and the upcoming "UFO Flying Saucers". There are four Gold Key Comics Club pages, comprising the centerfold.
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Reader's Page Airplanes

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Gold Key Comics Club
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Reader-submitted drawings of airplanes.
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Reader's Page Inventions

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Gold Key Comics Club
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Reader-submitted wacky inventions.
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Jokes On You

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Gold Key Comics Club
Character(s): Gold Key Kid
First Line: Why is a dog’s tail like the center of a tree?
Synopsis: Jokes and riddles submitted by readers.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Bertram’s Bad-News Book

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): Western Publishing Production Shop
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd; librarian; Bertram Q. Bunny (great-uncle of Bugs)
First Line: Hiya, Elmer! Heh, heh! I didn't know you could read!
Synopsis: Having grown old, and lost his taste for carrots, Bugs’ Great-Uncle Bertram writes a tell-all book, exposing the many secrets known only to carrot-pilferers! When Elmer Fudd makes good use of the book, and the knowledge therein, Bugs pays a visit to Great-Uncle Bertram to try and undo the damage to rabbit-kind.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: "Reprinted by popular demand".
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Porky Pig Meets the Great Optic

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): Western Publishing Production Shop
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Porky Pig; Petunia Pig; Cicero Pig; The Great Optic; theatre patrons; dogcatcher; hotel manager
First Line: Golly! Look at those eyes!
Synopsis: Porky says he can't be hypnotized, but when he volunteers to be a subject at a preformance of "The Great Optic," he is, of course, immediately hypnotized. A fire in the theatre leaves Petunia and Cicero with a still-hypnotized Porky, who behaves like any animal that is mentioned in conversation.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: "Reprinted by popular demand".
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Dinosauria Ornitholestes

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): Western Publishing Production Shop
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): Gold Key Comics Club
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Illustrated text article on the ornitholestes. © 1968, Western Publishing Company, Inc.
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King Kong

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): Western Publishing Production Shop
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Gold Key Comics, King Kong
Character(s): King Kong
First Line: Giant of the jungle now featured in a giant new comic book
Synopsis: Gold Key house ad for King Kong. On sale June 6, 1968. Cover price 25 cents.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Boys, Girls, Men, Women

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Wallace Brown, Inc.
First Line: If you need extra money & you know just 10 people…
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for selling Christmas cards for Wallace Brown, Inc. Color ad on inside back cover.
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Do You Need Extra Money?

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Cheerful Card Company
First Line: It costs you nothing to try
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for selling Christmas cards and stationery for the Cheerful Card Company. Color ad on back cover.

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