• Genre:anthropomorphic-funny animals
• Job Number:WOODY W. #103-688

• Feature Logo:Woody Woodpecker [Western Staggered Lettering Logo]
• First Line of Dialogue or Text:Woody is proof-testing Professor Skizzoid's new ultra-modern lifesaving apparatus...
• Keywords:alternative uses; inventions; inventor; lifeguard; series of mishaps

Synopsis:

Lifeguard Woody tests Professor Skizzoid's new lifesaving inventions, and ends up catching a pair of smugglers.

Reprints (2)

• in Woody Woodpecker Annual (World Distributors, 1975 series) #1975
• in Piko Magazine (Sage - Sagédition, 1958 series) #43 (Juin-Juillet-Aout 1970)

New story.

• Genre:anthropomorphic-funny animals; science fiction

• First Line of Dialogue or Text:Ahhh! I just love cruising through the wide open spaces... outer spaces... with the top down on my Lunar Schooner!
• Keywords:castle; deficit; enterprise; ingenuity; outer space setting; repossession; space ship; turning-lemons-into-lemonade

Synopsis:

King Size is going broke, but Space Mouse comes up with a way to replenish the royal coffers.

Reprints (1)

• from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #1244 - Walter Lantz Space Mouse (November 1961 - January 1962)

"Reprinted by popular demand".

• Genre:anthropomorphic-funny animals

• Feature Logo:Woody Woodpecker [Western Straight Lettering Logo]
• First Line of Dialogue or Text:Scat! You feathered nuisances!
• Keywords:annoying neighbor; chickens; ingenuity

Synopsis:

Woody comes up with a clever idea to get his neighbor to keep his chickens out of Woody's yard.

Reprints (1)

• from Walter Lantz Woody Woodpecker (Dell, 1952 series) #67 (June-July 1961)

"Reprinted by popular demand".

Drawings of various animals submitted by readers.

Drawings of various airplanes submitted by readers.

• Genre:humor

• First Line of Dialogue or Text:Why is a pianist like sixteen ounces of lead?
• Keywords:jokes; riddles

Jokes and riddles submitted by readers.

• Genre:anthropomorphic-funny animals

• First Line of Dialogue or Text:The bells on Chilly Willy's Indian moccasins jingled musically as he hopped up and down in front of his igloo.
• Keywords:doing-something-their-own-way; rain dance

Synopsis:

Chilly tries dancing a rain dance backward in hopes of bringing sunshine.

Reprints (1)

• from Walter Lantz Woody Woodpecker (Dell, 1952 series) #67 (June-July 1961)

• Genre:anthropomorphic-funny animals

• First Line of Dialogue or Text:Bills! Bills! Bills!
• Keywords:bank robbery; reused story; suspicion; wrong impression

Synopsis:

The kids find a bag of stolen money and Woody thinks that they've robbed a bank.

Reprints (1)

• from Walter Lantz New Funnies (Dell, 1946 series) #271 (September 1959)

"Reprinted by popular demand". A beat-for-beat remake of (or predecessor to – depending on how the dates actually fell) the 1959 Augie Doggie television cartoon “Million-Dollar Robbery”, also written by Michael Maltese. The original printing of the comic story was likely released in July 1959 (in order to have a cover date of September 1959) and the cartoon is listed as having first aired on December 1, 1959. Maltese has ported-over his cartoon plots to Western’s Dell and Gold Key comics a number of times, but never did the two versions both first appear inside of six months.

• Genre:anthropomorphic-funny animals

• Keywords:alternative uses; ingenuity; scooter; turning-lemons-into-lemonade

Synopsis:

When his scooter falls apart, Knothead improvises.

Reprints (1)

• from Walter Lantz Woody Woodpecker (Dell, 1952 series) #67 (June-July 1961)

While this is billed as a Woody Woodpecker story, Woody does not appear.
Pantomime gag.

• Genre:humor

• Keywords:cement; chicken

Synopsis:

A hungry chicken mistakes a sack of cement for a sack of corn, washes it down with some fountain water, and stiffens into a quick-drying statue.

Pantomime. Lower half of page.

• Genre:non-fiction; math & science

• First Line of Dialogue or Text:At the beginning of the Mesozoic Age about 190 million years ago, a huge flesh-eating sea dinosaur appeared in the prehistoric waters – the plesiosaur.
• Keywords:dinosaurs; educational feature

Illustrated text article on the plesiosaur. Copyright 1968 by Western Publishing Company, Inc.