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Issue Details

Issue #288
Published August 1950
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "Walter Lantz WOODY WOODPECKER in KLONDIKE GOLD, No. 288." Code number is W.W.O.S. #288-508. Copyright 1950 by Walter Lantz Productions, Inc.

Cover Details - "Klondike Gold"

Characters Woody Woodpecker
Genre funny animal
Pencils Dan Gormley
Inks Dan Gormley
Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (January 8, 2008).

1 page Woody story "Digging"

Characters Woody Woodpecker; Mr. Tackhammer
Synopsis Tackhammer falls into a tunnel that Woody is digging for some water pipes.
Genre funny animal
Pencils Dick Hall
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Pencils credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (January 8, 2008).

32 page Woody Woodpecker story "Klondike Gold"

Characters Woody Woodpecker; Chief Wormy-Apple; Sourdough Sam
Synopsis Woody flies to Alaska to prospect for gold. He hires an incompetent guide, Chief Wormy-Apple, but the pair stumble across a gold mine that is supposedly haunted. The ghost in the mine turns out to be Sourdough Sam, a friend of the guide. The three accidentally discover a huge amount of gold, but waste their fortune by foolish spending on the way back south.
Genre funny animal; adventure
Pencils Dick Hall
Inks Suzanne Seaborne
Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (January 8, 2008).

16 page Woody Woodpecker story "Woody Woodpecker and the Bank Bandits"

Characters Woody Woodpecker; J. Longfellow Short ("Shorty")
Synopsis Woody and "Shorty," an ex-dog catcher, go into business as an armored car service, but are robbed on their very first trip.
Genre funny animal
Pencils Dick Hall
Inks Suzanne Seaborne
Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (January 8, 2008).

1 page Woody story "Parking Help"

Characters Woody Woodpecker
Synopsis Woody helps a man parallel park his car--right by a fire hydrant.
Genre funny animal
Pencils Dick Hall
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Pencils credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (January 8, 2008).

1 page Woody story "Rain Shelter"

Characters Woody Woodpecker
Synopsis After a rainstorm, Woody gets drenched when a store owner opens the awning in front of his store.
Genre funny animal
Pencils Dick Hall
Notes Back cover; pantomime story. Pencils credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (January 8, 2008).