Issue Details

Issue	#56
Published	March 1969
Cover Price	0.15 USD
Pages	36
Notes	[Daffy playing the flute and the trumpet and jumping up and down on two drums; Inset picture of Second Banana and Merlin the Magic Mouse]; On Front Cover: GOLD KEY 10029-903 MARCH 15c

Cover Details

Characters	Daffy Duck; Second Banana; Merlin the Magic Mouse
Genre	Funny animal
Letters	Typeset
Notes	[Daffy playing the flute and the trumpet and jumping up and down on two drums; Inset picture of Second Banana and Merlin the Magic Mouse]; On Front Cover: GOLD KEY 10029-903 MARCH 15c
Reprinted	from Daffy Duck (Dell, 1959 Series) #29 (April-June 1962) [original had three drums and no inset picture]

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "A cool combination: the Gold Key Poster-Comic"

Synopsis	Shown are Front Covers and pull-out posters of Yellow Submarine (1969 Series), #35000-902 (February 1969); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1969 Series), #1 (February 1969); Dark Shadows (1969 Series), #1 (March 1969)
Letters	Typeset
Notes	Inside Front Cover

8 page Daffy Duck story "The downbeat duck"

Characters	Daffy Duck; Elmer Fudd
Genre	Funny animal
Letters	Typeset
Notes	REPRINTED BY POPULAR DEMAND; Mentioned is Daffy Duck's uncle, Louie
Reprinted	From ?

6 page Merlin the Magic Mouse story "Show biz whiz"

Characters	Merlin the Magic Mouse (Introduction); Second Banana (Introduction);Mr. I. M. Hambone
Genre	Funny animal
Letters	Typeset
Reprinted	In Golden Comics Digest (1969 Series), #30 (July 1973)

1 page Gold Key Club Comics promo (ad from the publisher) "Gold Key Comics Club News"

Characters	None
Letters	Typeset

1 page Gold Key Club Comics activity "Reader's page: Doodles"

Characters	None
Synopsis	First doodles are "girl" and "boy" from Cynthia Pincus
Genre	Children
Letters	Typeset

1 page Gold Key Club Comics promo (ad from the publisher) "Holiday offer"

Letters	Typeset
Notes	"48 issues a year for less than 10ðc EACH." Shown (Bugs Bunny and The Flintstones partially) are Front Covers of Bugs Bunny (1963 Series), #106 (July 1966); Walter Lantz Woody Woodpecker (1962 Series), #78 (December 1963); The Flintstones (1962 Series), #19 (July 1963); Marge's Little Lulu (1962 Series), #?

1 page Gold Key Club Comics activity "Jokes on you"

Characters	None
Synopsis	First joke is from Dana Smith
Genre	Humor
Letters	Typeset

4 page Daffy Duck story "Snack time"

Characters	Daffy Duck; Elmer Fudd
Genre	Funny animal
Letters	Typeset
Notes	REPRINTED BY POPULAR DEMAND
Reprinted	from ?; in Daffy Duck (Whitman, 1980 Series) #138 (January 1982)

1 page text story "Hot tamale dog"

Characters	El se–or Pancho Vanilla; Little Pancho Vanilla; la se–ora Pancho Vanilla
Genre	Children
Letters	Typeset
Reprinted	From Daffy (1956 Series), #14 (July-September 1958)

7 page Daffy Duck story "In the bag"

Characters	Daffy Duck; Old Prospector Sam [=Yosemite Sam]
Genre	Funny animal
Letters	Typeset
Reprinted	From ?

Half page Gold Key Club Comics Mini-Comics filler "Skunk crossing"

Characters	None
Synopsis	No dialogue
Genre	Funny animal
Letters	Typeset

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Santa's bigger than everÉ"

Characters	None
Synopsis	Promo for The Golden Magazine Christmas Annual For Boys and Girls
Genre	Children
Letters	Typeset