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Issue Details

Issue #276
Published May 1950
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "UNCLE WIGGILY, No. 276." Code number is U.W.O.S. #277-505. (Note that code number does not match issue number.) Copyright 1948 by Bell Syndicate. Copyright 1950 by Howard Garis.

Cover Details

Characters Uncle Wiggily; Sammy Littletail
Genre funny animals
Pencils Dan Gormley
Inks Dan Gormley
Letters typeset
Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page Uncle Wiggily story "This wash tub has to be fixed, Wiggily!"

Characters Uncle Wiggily; Nurse Jane; Uncle Butter; Flattail Beaver; The Skeezicks
Synopsis Wiggily takes a wash tub to Flattail Beaver's shop to be fixed. He then uses the wash tub to escape from the Skeezicks.
Genre funny animals
Script Roger Garis
Pencils Francis Kirn
Inks Francis Kirn
Notes Inside front cover; black, red, and white. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Reprinted from Uncle Wiggily (Bell Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1948

8 page Uncle Wiggily story "The Frog Pond Fright"

Characters Uncle Wiggily; Uncle Butter; The Scillery Scallery Alligator; Nurse Jane; Sammy Littletail
Synopsis Uncle Wiggly and Uncle Butter build a boat, but when they launch it into the Frog Pond, they run into the Scillery Scallery Alligator.
Genre funny animals
Script Roger Garis
Pencils Francis Kirn
Inks Francis Kirn
Notes Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Reprinted from Uncle Wiggily (Bell Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1948 ?

8 page Uncle Wiggily story "The Woodland Circus"

Characters Uncle Wiggily; Uncle Butter; Sammy Littletail; The Bad Chaps [Fuzzy Fox; Shaggy Wolf]
Synopsis Fuzzy Fox and Shaggy Wolf disguise themselves as clowns to get into Uncle Wiggily's Woodland Circus.
Genre funny animals
Script Roger Garis
Pencils Francis Kirn
Inks Francis Kirn
Notes Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Reprinted from Uncle Wiggily (Bell Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1948 ?

8 page Uncle Wiggily story "The Prize Pumpkin"

Characters Uncle Wiggily; Nurse Jane; Possie Possum; The Pipsisewah; The Skeezicks; Sammy Littletail; Uncle Butter (cameo)
Synopsis Wiggily takes his prize pumpkin to the county fair. On the way he has to elude the Pipsisewah and the Skeezicks.
Genre funny animals
Script Roger Garis
Pencils Francis Kirn
Inks Francis Kirn
Notes Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Reprinted from Uncle Wiggily (Bell Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1948 ?

8 page Uncle Wiggily story "The Pie Snatcher"

Characters Uncle Wiggily; Nurse Jane; Sammy Littletail; Bobby; Butch Bear
Synopsis Wiggily sets a trap to catch whoever is stealing Nurse Jane's pies from her window sill.
Genre funny animals
Script Roger Garis
Pencils Francis Kirn
Inks Francis Kirn
Notes Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Reprinted from Uncle Wiggily (Bell Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1948 ?

8 page Uncle Wiggily story "Wiggily the Baby-Sitter"

Characters Uncle Wiggily; Nurse Jane; Bushytail; Billy; Bobby; The Bad Chaps [Fuzzy Fox; Shaggy Wolf]
Synopsis The Bad Chaps pretend to be a mother and her son so they can hire Wiggily as a baby-sitter.
Genre funny animals
Script Roger Garis
Pencils Francis Kirn
Inks Francis Kirn
Notes Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Reprinted from Uncle Wiggily (Bell Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1948 ?

8 page Uncle Wiggily story "Helping Twistytail Lose Weight"

Characters Uncle Wiggily; Nurse Jane; Twistytail; Sammy Littletail; Uncle Butter
Synopsis Wiggily tries to help Twistytail lose weight so he'll be able to fit into his suit when he's master of ceremonies at the school program.
Genre funny animals
Script Roger Garis
Pencils Francis Kirn
Inks Francis Kirn
Notes Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Reprinted from Uncle Wiggily (Bell Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1948 ?

1 page Uncle Wiggily story "Hot doggies! This new hat is really somethin'!"

Characters Uncle Wiggily; The Bad Chaps [Fuzzy Fox; Shaggy Wolf]
Synopsis Shaggy Wolf gets a new straw hat and asks Wiggily what he thinks of it.
Genre funny animals
Script Roger Garis
Pencils Francis Kirn
Inks Francis Kirn
Notes Inside back cover; black, red, and white. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Reprinted from Uncle Wiggily (Bell Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1948

1 page Uncle Wiggily story "A May flower in April! Time for a picnic!"

Characters Uncle Wiggily; Nurse Jane; Sammy Littletail; Shaggy Wolf
Synopsis Nurse Jane comes to the rescue when Shaggy Wolf interrupts a picnic.
Genre funny animals
Script Roger Garis
Pencils Francis Kirn
Inks Francis Kirn
Notes Back cover. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Reprinted from Uncle Wiggily (Bell Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1948