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Issue Details

Issue #1128
Published August-October 1960
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes First Rocky and His Friends comic. Writer credit from Keith Scott in his book "The Moose that Roared", though Jerry Bails's Who's Who indicates that Jack Mendelsohn wrote something in this issue. Note the flat style of Rocky's headgear; his goggles protrude in all other comics (not counting reprints).

Cover Details - "Rocky and His Friends"

Characters Bullwinkle; Rocky; Boris; Natasha; Peabody; Sherman
Genre funny animal
Pencils Ben De Nunez ?
Inks Al White ?
Notes First Rocky and His Friends comic. Writer credit from Keith Scott in his book "The Moose that Roared", though Jerry Bails's Who's Who indicates that Jack Mendelsohn wrote something in this issue. Note the flat style of Rocky's headgear; his goggles protrude in all other comics (not counting reprints).
Reprinted in Bullwinkle (Gold Key, 1962 series) #3 (April 1972)

8 page Rocky and His Friends story "Magnetic Moose"

Characters Bullwinkle; Rocky; Boris; Natasha; Gidney; Cloyd
Synopsis Bullwinkle is wanted on the moon.
Genre funny animal
Script Al Kilgore
Pencils Ben De Nunez ?
Inks Ben De Nunez ?
Reprinted in Bullwinkle (Gold Key, 1962 series) #3 (April 1972); in Bullwinkle (Gold Key, 1962 series) #20 (April 1979)

5 page Peabody's Improbable History story "The Youngest Outlaw"

Characters Peabody; Sherman; Billy the Kid
Genre funny animal; satire
Pencils Ben De Nunez ?
Inks Ben De Nunez ?
Reprinted in Bullwinkle (Gold Key, 1962 series) #3 (April 1972)

1 page Frivolous Facts text article "Oddities"

Synopsis Interesting facts.
Letters typeset

4 page Fractured Fairy Tales story "Cinderella"

Characters Cinderella; Fairy Godmother; Stepsisters
Genre satire
Script Al Kilgore
Reprinted in Bullwinkle (Gold Key, 1962 series) #3 (April 1972)

6 page Peabody's Improbable History story "Petty Piracy"

Characters Peabody; Sherman; Captain Kidd
Genre funny animal; satire
Script Al Kilgore
Pencils Ben De Nunez ?
Inks Ben De Nunez ?
Reprinted in Bullwinkle (Gold Key, 1962 series) #5 (October 1972); in Bullwinkle (Gold Key, 1962 series) #15 (March 1977); in Bullwinkle (Gold Key, 1962 series) #20 (April 1979)

8 page Rocky and Bullwinkle story "The Mooseterious Journey"

Characters Bullwinkle; Rocky; Boris; Natasha; Gidney; Cloyd
Synopsis "Moon men, Cloyd and Gidney, have returned to Earth more determined than ever to carry Bullwinkle back to the Moon and his adoring fans, the moongirls..."
Genre funny animal; satire
Script Al Kilgore
Pencils Ben De Nunez ?
Inks Ben De Nunez ?
Reprinted in Bullwinkle (Gold Key, 1962 series) #3 (April 1972); in Bullwinkle (Gold Key, 1962 series) #20 (April 1979)

1 page Peabody's Improbable History story "Crossed Wires"

Characters Peabody; Sherman; Alexander Graham Bell
Synopsis Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone
Genre funny animal; satire
Script Al Kilgore
Pencils Ben De Nunez ?
Inks Ben De Nunez ?
Notes Inside Back Cover
Reprinted in Bullwinkle (Gold Key, 1962 series) #5 (October 1972)

1 page Rocky and Bullwinkle story "The Jaywalker"

Characters Bullwinkle; Rocky
Genre funny animal
Script Al Kilgore
Pencils Ben De Nunez ?
Inks Ben De Nunez ?
Notes Back Cover
Reprinted in Bullwinkle (Gold Key, 1962 series) #5 (October 1972)