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Issue Details

Issue #1311
Published March-July 1962
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Final Rocky and His Friends in the Four Color series. Creator credits from Keith Scott in his book "The Moose that Roared." Karl Wilcox notes, January 2008, that Al Kilgore did not draw all the stories in this issue, and that the Keith Scott book does not actually make that claim. Karl could not positively identify which stories were drawn by Kilgore.

Cover Details - "Rocky and His Friends"

Characters Rocky; Bullwinkle; Peabody
Genre funny animal
Pencils Al Kilgore
Inks Al Kilgore
Notes Final Rocky and His Friends in the Four Color series. Creator credits from Keith Scott in his book "The Moose that Roared." Karl Wilcox notes, January 2008, that Al Kilgore did not draw all the stories in this issue, and that the Keith Scott book does not actually make that claim. Karl could not positively identify which stories were drawn by Kilgore.
Reprinted in Bullwinkle (Gold Key, 1962 series) #5 (October 1972)

8 page Rocky and His Friends story "Muscle Bound Moose"

Characters Bullwinkle; Rocky; Boris; Natasha; Ivan Hoodnik; Fearless Leader (over radio)
Genre funny animal
Script Al Kilgore
Pencils Al Kilgore ?
Inks Al Kilgore ?
Reprinted in Bullwinkle (Gold Key, 1962 Series) #7 (April 1973); in Bullwinkle and Rocky (Gold Key, 1979 Series) #23 (October 1979)

6 page Peabody's Improbable History story "Cotton Pickin' Inventor"

Characters Peabody; Sherman; Eli Whitney
Genre funny animal; satire
Script Al Kilgore
Pencils Al Kilgore
Inks Al Kilgore
Notes Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin
Reprinted in Bullwinkle and Rocky (Gold Key, 1979 Series) #23 (October 1979)

1 page Frivolous Facts text article "Oddities"

Genre fact; satire
Letters typeset
Notes Interesting facts.

4 page Peabody's Improbable History story "Babe in Troy-Land"

Characters Peabody; Sherman; King Prium; Paris; Helen of Troy
Genre funny animal; satire
Script Al Kilgore
Pencils Al Kilgore
Inks Al Kilgore
Reprinted in Bullwinkle and Rocky (Gold Key, 1979 Series) #23 (October 1979)

4 page Fractured Fairy Tales story "The Wishing Fish"

Genre satire
Script Al Kilgore
Pencils Al Kilgore
Inks Al Kilgore
Reprinted in Bullwinkle and Rocky (Gold Key, 1979 Series) #23 (October 1979)

8 page Rocky and His Friends story "Egyptian Gyp"

Characters Bullwinkle; Rocky; Boris; Natasha
Genre funny animal
Script Al Kilgore
Pencils Al Kilgore
Inks Al Kilgore

1 page Boris and Natasha story "Shutter Bugged"

Characters Boris; Natasha
Genre sitcom
Script Al Kilgore
Pencils Al Kilgore
Inks Al Kilgore

1 page Peabody's Improbable History story "Talkin' Turkey"

Characters Peabody; Sherman
Genre funny animal; satire
Script Al Kilgore
Pencils Al Kilgore
Inks Al Kilgore
Notes Thanksgiving