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Issue Details

Issue #249
Published October 1949
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "Walter Lantz WOODY WOODPECKER, No. 249." Code number is W.W.O.S. #249-4910. Copyright 1949 by Walter Lantz Productions, Inc.

Cover Details - "The Globe Trotter"

Characters Woody Woodpecker
Genre funny animal
Pencils Dan Gormley ?
Notes Pencils credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page Woody Woodpecker story "Face Cream"

Characters Woody Woodpecker
Synopsis Woody gets suckered by a con man selling face cream.
Genre funny animal
Pencils Dick Hall
Inks Dick Hall
Notes Inside front cover; black, red, and white. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

32 page Woody Woodpecker story "The Globe Trotter"

Characters Woody Woodpecker
Synopsis Woody accidentally gets dumped in the cargo hold of a freighter bound for England. He meets up with Slippery Rhodes, a stowaway, but they are discovered and have to work for the rest of the voyage. They jump ship, but end up being picked up by a ship headed for Turkey. That ship turns out to be running guns to a rebel army and it in turn is boarded by forces of Aga Bonami. Woody, Slippery, and the Captain are taken to a slave market (in a country identified as Turkey or Arabia) and sold as slaves. Woody and Slippery eventually escape and find a U.S. destroyer in port, which takes them back to the U.S.A.
Genre funny animal; adventure
Pencils Dick Hall
Inks Dick Hall
Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page Woody Woodpecker story "Umbrella"

Characters Woody Woodpecker
Synopsis Woody and a sales clerk haggle over the price of an umbrella.
Genre funny animal
Pencils Dick Hall
Inks Dick Hall
Notes Inside back cover; black, red, and white. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page Woody Woodpecker story "Organ Grinder"

Characters Woody Woodpecker
Synopsis Woody has trouble with an organ grinder's monkey.
Genre funny animal
Pencils Dick Hall
Inks Dick Hall
Notes Back cover. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)