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Issue Details

Issue #218
Published March 1949
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Eleanor Packer (managing editor); Alice Nielson Cobb (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
Notes Indicia title is "Walt Disney's 3 LITTLE PIGS and THE WONDERFUL MAGIC LAMP, No. 218." Code number is W.D.O.S. #218-493. Copyright 1949 by Walt Disney Productions. Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994).

Cover Details - "3 Little Pigs and The Wonderful Magic Lamp"

Characters Three Little Pigs
Genre funny animals
Pencils Tony Strobl ?
Inks Tony Strobl ?
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)

1 page The Big Bad Wolf story "Baby Sitter"

Characters Big Bad Wolf; Li'l Bad Wolf; Brer Bear
Synopsis The Big Bad Wolf's reputation is damaged when he accidentally sits by Li'l Bad Wolf's baby-sitting sign.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Gil Turner
Inks Gil Turner
Colors black/white/red (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Gil Turner
Notes Inside front cover; black, red, and white.
Reprinted in Walt Disney's The Three Little Pigs (Gold Key, 1964 series) #1; in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Gladstone, 1993 series) #602 (April 1996)

16 page The Three Little Pigs story "The Three Little Pigs and The Wonderful Magic Lamp"

Characters The Three Little Pigs; Big Bad Wolf; Princess Estelle
Synopsis The Big Bad Wolf uses a witch's potion to make Practical Pig dumb and naive.
Genre funny animals
Script Chase Craig
Pencils Tony Strobl
Inks Tony Strobl
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Tony Strobl
Notes Letters credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
Reprinted in Walt Disney's The Three Little Pigs (Gold Key, 1964 series) #1

12 page The Three Little Pigs story "The Mounties"

Characters Three Little Pigs; Big Bad Wolf
Synopsis The Three Little Pigs join the Mounties and their first mission is to bring in the Big Bad Wolf.
Genre funny animals
Script Chase Craig
Pencils Gil Turner
Inks Gil Turner
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Gil Turner
Reprinted in Walt Disney's The Three Little Pigs (Gold Key, 1964 series) #1; in Walt Disney Giant (Gladstone, 1995 series) #1 (September 1995)

4 page The Three Little Pigs story "Bee-sieged"

Characters Three Little Pigs
Synopsis Practical tells his brothers not to go near an old stump with a beehive inside, knowing the pair will disobey his warning.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Don Gunn
Inks Don Gunn
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Don Gunn ?
Reprinted in Walt Disney's The Three Little Pigs (Gold Key, 1964 series) #1

1 page Li'l Bad Wolf story "Poisoned Apple"

Characters Big Bad Wolf; Li'l Bad Wolf; Brer Bear
Synopsis The Big Bad Wolf poisons an apple that Li'l Bad Wolf was going to take to his teacher, but ends up eating it himself.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Gil Turner
Inks Gil Turner
Colors black/white/red (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Gil Turner
Notes Inside back cover; black, red, and white.
Reprinted in Walt Disney's The Three Little Pigs (Gold Key, 1964 series) #1; in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Gladstone, 1993 series) #602 (April 1996)

1 page The Big Bad Wolf story "Secret Bath"

Characters Big Bad Wolf; Li'l Bad Wolf
Synopsis The Big Bad Wolf's plan to secretly take a bath is foiled by Li'l Bad Wolf's pet turtle.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Gil Turner
Inks Gil Turner
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Gil Turner
Notes Back cover.
Reprinted in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Gladstone, 1993 series) #602 (April 1996)