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Issue Details

Issue #143
Published April 1947
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "OSWALD THE RABBIT AND THE PREHISTORIC EGG, No. 143." Code number is O.O.S. #143-474. Copyright 1947 by Walter Lantz Productions.

Cover Details - "Oswald the Rabbit and the Prehistoric Egg"

Characters Oswald the Rabbit
Genre funny animals
Pencils Dan Gormley
Inks Dan Gormely

1 page Oswald story "Ping Pong Pain"

Characters Oswald the Rabbit; Toby
Synopsis While playing ping pong, Toby keeps getting the ball stuck in his throat and eventually goes to don a suit of armor.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Dan Gormley ?
Inks Dan Gormley ?
Notes Inside front cover; black, red, and white; pantomime story.

48 page Oswald The Rabbit story "The Prehistoric Egg"

Characters Oswald the Rabbit; Toby; Dr. Weskit
Synopsis Oswald and Toby go with Dr. Weskit in his rocket to an island looking for the lost city of Oakie Doakie. Using a drilling machine, they find the city, which is inhabited by beautiful women. The pair get involved in a civil war between the Queen, the Old Queen, and the Old, Old Queen before escaping with an egg of a giant Gargosaurus dinosaur.
Genre funny animals; science fiction
Pencils Dan Gormley ?
Inks Dan Gormley ?
Notes Story title is slightly different than the cover title.
Reprinted In Woody Woodpecker (Semic Press, 1976 Series) #73 (1984).[Part 3 of multi-issue reprint]

1 page Oswald story "The One That Got Away"

Characters Oswald the Rabbit; Toby
Synopsis Toby uses a hat rack to show Oswald how big "the fish that got away" was.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Dan Gormley
Inks Dan Gormley
Notes Inside back cover; black, red, and white; pantomime story.

1 page Oswald story "Heckling at TV Boxing Match"

Characters Oswald the Rabbit
Synopsis Oswald heckles the boxers in a bout on TV.
Genre funny animals
Pencils Dan Gormley
Inks Dan Gormley
Notes Back cover.