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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published 1942
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing ?
Notes Copyright, 1942, by Oskar Lebeck. Indicia publisher is Dell Publishing Company, Inc.

Cover Details

Genre Funny Animal
Pencils Walt Kelly
Inks Walt Kelly
Notes Wraparound cover.

1 page text story "Ambition"

Script W. B. C. (signed)
Notes Poem with illustration. On inside front cover in black, white and red.

5 page story "Albert Takes the Cake"

Characters Albert (first appearance; an alligator); Pogo (first appearance; a possum); Bumbazine (first appearance); Mrs. Jay (first appearance); Beetle (first appearance)
Synopsis Bumbazine bakes Pogo a birthday cake, but Albert tries to steal it.
Genre Funny Animal
Script Walt Kelly
Pencils Walt Kelly
Inks Walt Kelly
Reprinted in Complete Pogo Comics, The (Eclipse, 1989 series) #1; in Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Comics, A (Smithsonian Institution / Harry N Abrams, 1981 series) #nn

11 page Katonka story "Katonka Flies North"

Characters Katonka; Sgt. Bain; Private Rooney; Tauber (villain); Nazis (villains)
Synopsis A grateful goose alerts the soldiers that heeled him that some german spies are sneaking around the island.
Genre War

12 page story "Piggy Pranks"

Characters Pa Dunn; Ma Dunn; Bobby Dunn; Paddy (a pig); Pinkie (a pig)
Genre Funny Animal

7 page story "Right of Way"

Characters Snuffy (a skunk); Violet (a skunk); Judge Martin
Genre Funny Animal

11 page story "Muzzy and Ginger"

Characters Muzzy (a chimpanzee); Ginger (a kitten); Homer; Dr. Atkins
Synopsis Muzzy and Ginger escape from a pet shop. Dr. Atkins finds them and takes them as pets for the State School for Crippled Children.
Genre Funny Animal
Script Walt Kelly
Pencils Walt Kelly
Inks Walt Kelly

8 page story "The Monarch of Panther Gorge"

Characters The Monarch (a deer); Game Warden Dan Burke; Tom

10 page story "Milk for the Baby"

Characters Babe (a baby elephant); Ernie; Cyrus Solon Walker; Mrs. Walker; Sonny Walker

1 page text story "A Matter of Intelligence"

Script W. B. C. (signed)
Notes Poem with illustration. On inside back cover in black, white and red.