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Issue Details

Issue #32
Published September 1973
Cover Price 0.50 USD
Pages 132
Editing ?

Cover Details - "Summer Fun"

Characters Woody Woodpecker
Genre Funny Animals

1 page Gold Key Comics promo (ad from the publisher) "On Target For Fun"

Characters Donald Duck; Bugs Bunny; Porky Pig; Beep Beep the Road Runner; Mod Wheels; Cracky; Tom & Jerry; Little Lulu; Bullwinkle; Heckle & Jeckle; Scooby Doo; Tweety & Sylvester; Woody Woodpecker; Mickey Mouse; Wacky Witch
Script ? (promo copy)
Pencils Various
Inks Various
Notes A promo for Gold Key Comics with many of their most popular characters shown.

2 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Golden Comics Digest Contents"

Letters Typeset
Notes Contents page with title of each story, the pages they are in the book and the indicia.

14 page Woody Woodpecker story "The Golden Fleece"

Characters Woody Woodpecker; Splinter; Knothead; pirates; a sheep; Mabel; Horace; cruise ship crew
Synopsis Woody and the kids are attacked by pirates and escape to an island with a sheep that appears to be the Golden Fleece of legend. When the pirates arrive and try to capture the sheep, Woody and the kids escape again, to be picked up by a cruise ship.
Genre Funny Animals
Notes Cruise ship is "S.S. Tourina."
Reprinted from Walter Lantz Woody Woodpecker (Dell, 1952 series) #68 (August-September 1961) [original layout=10 pages]

1 page Andy Panda activity "Puzzle Page"

Characters Andy Panda
Notes A crossword puzzle.

6 page Windy and Breezy story "Money Maker"

Characters Windy; Breezy; Roscoe
Synopsis When Breezy wants to buy a new house Windy tells him that he'll have to get a job. When he tries to sell rocks he finds that one is enough to buy that house.
Genre Funny Animals

11 page Chilly Willy story "Weather Warfare"

Characters Chilly Willy; Cap'n Pete; Waldo Whale; Cap'n White; Sir Snow; Mr. Wind; Terry Twister
Synopsis Chilly and his friends get caught in a winter weather war between Cap'n White, Sir Snow, and Mr. Wind.
Genre Funny Animals
Pencils Vivie Risto
Inks Vivie Risto
Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Reprinted from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #1212 (September-November 1961) [original layout=8 pages]

1 page Winnie activity "Winnie Makes a Wish"

Characters Winnie
Notes A word puzzle.

5 page Sam 'n' Simian story "Door-To-Door Danger"

Characters Sam; Simian; Mr. Bullgrinch
Synopsis Sam and Simian get in trouble with selling things door to door so they decide to get into another line of work that seems safer.
Genre Funny Animals
Script Carl Fallberg ?

10 page Woody Woodpecker story "Frontier Daze"

Characters Woody Woodpecker; Knothead; Splinter; Carl; The Sheriff
Synopsis When Woody is arrested on Frontier Days for not wearing western clothes he trips while in the jail and wakes up thinking he is Wild and Wooly Woody, the Wickedest Woodpecker of the West. When he escapes from jail the Sheriff, Knothead and Splinter try to catch him before he can pull a real robbery.
Genre Funny Animals
Reprinted from Walter Lantz Woody Woodpecker (Gold Key, 1962 series) #78 ?

1 page Did You Know... filler "That very few animals see any color other than grey!"

Genre Fact
Notes Various interesting facts.

6 page Oswald the Rabbit story "Outer Space Race"

Characters Oswald the Rabbit; Wally the Walrus
Synopsis Oswald needs Wally's help for his experiments on space travel and he thinks that if he can get Wally airborne he'll be willing to help, but it turns out to be harder than it looks.
Genre Funny Animals

1 page Woody Woodpecker activity "What and Y Riddle Quiz"

Characters Woody Woodpecker
Notes A riddle quiz.

20 page Andy Panda story "Voyage of the Vulture"

Characters Andy Panda; Charlie Chicken; Cap'n Sly (Dead-Eye Richard); Mister Morg
Synopsis Andy Panda and Charlie Chicken are shanghaied and forced to help Cap'n Sly on his hunt for The Tiger Whale.
Genre Funny Animals

1 page Young Heroes text article "Eugene L. Parsons and J. Richard Dalmolin"

Characters Eugene L. Parsons; J. Richard Dalmolin; Pamela Haught; Jacque Day
Synopsis The story of Eugene L. Parsons and J. Richard Dalmolin, two Carnegie Hero Fund Medal winners.
Genre Fact
Notes Includes spot illustration of Carnegie Hero Fund Medal.

6 page Homer Pigeon story "Pirate Plunder"

Characters Homer Pigeon; Red Cardinal; Carrie; Cap'n Dirk; Slinky
Synopsis While spying on Red Cardinal and Carrie on the beach Homer sees pirates bury treasure, but he gets into all kinds of trouble trying to find it.
Genre Funny Animals

11 page Space Mouse story "Hop To It"

Characters Space Mouse; Dr. Rodent Rocket; Size, King of Rodentia
Synopsis Dr. Rocket invents the "Lunar Leaper," a pogo-stick designed to hop from planet to planet. Space Mouse is picked to test it.
Genre Funny Animals; Science Fiction
Pencils John Carey
Inks John Carey
Reprinted from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #1244 (November 1961 - January 1962) [original layout=8 pages]

10 page story "Little Emma"

Characters Little Emma; Henry Arbuckle; Pancho; Geronimo
Synopsis Little Emma is a small old train that Henry Arbuckle buys and then uses to transport copper in Arizona territory. Because Little Emma is so small it appears that she will be replaced by a larger train until something happens on what was to be her last haul.
Genre Western

1 page Chilly Willy activity "Mystery Catch"

Characters Chilly Willy
Notes A word puzzle.

13 page Sugar Foot story "Farm Foolery"

Characters Sugarfoot; Ma; Pa; Fleetfoot
Synopsis Pa uses all of his money to buy a new tractor so that Sugarfoot can retire but Sugarfoot thinks that Pa is going to put him down so he destroys the tractor. Sugarfoot overhears Pa tell Ma that the tractor was to help him but it is too late because Pa has seen Sugarfoot destroy the tractor. Pa throws him off the farm so Sugarfoot sets out to make enough money for Pa to buy another tractor.
Genre Children
Notes Title is taken from the contents page. The first sentence is "Once upon a time there was a horse named sugarfoot...".

1 page Woody Woodpecker activity "Memory Game"

Characters Knothead; Splinter
Notes A memory game.

5 page Winnie story "The Case of the Wishing Well"

Characters Winnie; Knothead; Splinter; "Glitter Glen"
Synopsis Knothead and Splinter cause trouble when they fake a murder at home so Winnie tries to take them out so they won't cause any more trouble. Instead of staying out of trouble they end up in the middle of a real robbery investigation.
Genre Funny Animals

1 page Oswald activity "Dot-To-Dot"

Characters Oswald the Rabbit; Floyd; Lloyd
Notes A Dot-To-Dot Puzzle.

1 page Space Mouse activity "Skywriter"

Characters Space Mouse
Notes A Dot-To-Dot Puzzle.

1 page Walt Disney Comics Digest promo (ad from the publisher) "It's Magic!"

Characters Mickey Mouse; Donald Duck; Uncle Scrooge; Goofy; Pluto; Doc; Chip 'n' Dale; Jiminy Cricket
Script ? (promo copy)
Notes Promo for Walt Disney Comics Digest with an illustration of various Walt Disney characters.

1 page Pencil Puzzle Fun promo (ad from the publisher) "Kids!!! Know What One Pencil Can Do?"

Characters Cracky
Script ? (promo copy)
Notes Advertisement for Pencil Puzzle Fun #? with a listing of many of the kinds of puzzles in it and a reprint of the front cover.