Price: 0.25 USD
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1975-07
Editing: Chase Craig (editor); Del Connell (editor); Larry Mayer (art director)
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See You “Wader”, Woody!
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Woody Woodpecker / cover / 1 page

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  • Genre:anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters:
Woody Woodpecker; Knothead; Splinter
Synopsis:
Knothead catches a fish from wader Woody’s boot.
This issue has 1 variant

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

Possibly the last issue of Woody Woodpecker to be edited by Chase Craig, as he retired from Western Publishing in summer 1975.

Cover code: 90062-509. Publication date is derived from the last three digits of the cover code (509 = September, 1975). On sale date (month and year) is derived from the issue code appearing in the bottom tier of page one (757 = July, 1975).

Scatter Shot
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Bugs Bunny; Hostess Twinkies / comics-form advertising / 1 page

Spy Train
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Woody Woodpecker / comic story / 8 pages

Script:
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  • Genre:anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters:
Woody Woodpecker; James Bomb (spy chief); spy on street; taxi driver; agent at Paris airport; Vasilino (spy); Hata Mary (spy, female woodpecker); Hata Mary’s gunsel; spy offering help; various spies throughout the train; various citizens of Bombay; Agent 999
Synopsis:
Woody is a secret courier aboard a train full of spies.

Indexer Notes

Similar in tone and climax to the Huckleberry Hound cartoon “Cluck and Dagger” (1960). Appropriate Alfred Hitchcock reference: A notice is put up on a wall of one of the cars of the spy train “Tonight’s Movie – ‘The Lady Vanishes’ Car 12”.

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Gandalf Embroidered Cloth Patches / advertisement / 1 page

The One That Didn't Get Away
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Woody Woodpecker / comic story / 5 pages

Script:
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  • Genre:anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters:
Woody Woodpecker; Knothead; Splinter
Synopsis:
Halfway through a two-week fishing vacation, Knothead and Splinter are sick of eating nothing but fish, and want hamburgers for a change. Woody, who enjoys catching and eating fish – and who, as opposed to the issue’s cover illustration, is having extraordinary success at fishing – will not hear of it. Can the kids change Woody’s thinking?

Indexer Notes

Editorial Coincidence: The issue’s cover, presumably by happenstance, depicts Woody as a unsuccessful fisherman, while this story does exactly the opposite.

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1001 Things You Can Get Free / advertisement / 0.5 page

Fun Things! Mail Today…
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Five Star Gift Novelties / advertisement / 0.5 page

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Gandalf Consumer Gazette Catalog / comics-form advertising / 1 page

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Gandalf Embroidered Cloth Patches / advertisement / 1 page

The Big Spender
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Woody Woodpecker / comic story / 12 pages

Script:
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  • Genre:anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters:
Woody Woodpecker; Knothead; Splinter; Colonel Gobbs O'Money; two thieves; riverboat captain; various tourists; Jeeves (Colonel’s butler)
Synopsis:
Every year, Colonel Gobbs O’ Money holds an “old time festival” for tourists in the riverboat town of “Sparadime Junction”. Woody gets into the spirit of things by dressing as a “southern gentleman” and flashing around a roll of stage money. Based upon their observations of his dress and behavior, two thieves come to believe that he is the wealthy colonel.

Indexer Notes

Artist John Carey opens this story with a ¾ page splash panel offering a large view of Woody, Knothead, and Splinter at the festival, with an atypical amount of background detail and incidental tourist characters walking about, for a new story by Western in the 1970s.

Kids, Roach Designs Are Now Available as Iron-On Transfers!
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Roach Designs Iron-on Transfers / advertisement / 1 page

Fun Tricks Free Things!
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Gandalf Products Novelties / advertisement / 1 page

204 pc. Revolutionary War Soldiers Set Only 2.25
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204 Revolutionary War Soldiers / advertisement / 1 page

Personality Posters
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Gandalf Posters / advertisement / 1 page

The Name of the Game is Winning Prizes or Cash
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Sales Leadership Club Cards / Stationery / advertisement / 1 page

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. See You “Wader”, Woody!
    Woody Woodpecker
  2. Scatter Shot
    Bugs Bunny; Hostess Twinkies
  3. Spy Train
    Woody Woodpecker
  4. Get Your Favorite Cartoon Characters In These Brilliant Embroidered Cloth Patches
    Gandalf Embroidered Cloth Patches
  5. The One That Didn't Get Away
    Woody Woodpecker
  6. 1001 Free Gifts
    1001 Things You Can Get Free
  7. Fun Things! Mail Today…
    Five Star Gift Novelties
  8. Margie Gets Free Gifts for the Whole Family
    Gandalf Consumer Gazette Catalog
  9. Get These Dynamite Embroidered Cloth Patches That Tell It Like It Is!
    Gandalf Embroidered Cloth Patches
  10. The Big Spender
    Woody Woodpecker
  11. Kids, Roach Designs Are Now Available as Iron-On Transfers!
    Roach Designs Iron-on Transfers
  12. Fun Tricks Free Things!
    Gandalf Products Novelties
  13. 204 pc. Revolutionary War Soldiers Set Only 2.25
    204 Revolutionary War Soldiers
  14. Personality Posters
    Gandalf Posters
  15. The Name of the Game is Winning Prizes or Cash
    Sales Leadership Club Cards / Stationery
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