Issue | #12 |
Published | August 1970 |
Cover Price | 0.50 USD |
Pages | 164 |
Editing | ? |
Characters | Woody Woodpecker; Chilly Willy; Bugs Bunny; Beep Beep the Roadrunner; Tom; Jerry |
Genre | Funny Animals; Science Fiction |
Characters | Cracky |
Script | ? (promo copy) |
Notes | Advertisement for Pencil Puzzle Fun #1 with a listing of many of the kinds of puzzles in it and a reprint of the front cover. |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Contents page with title of each story, the pages they are in the book and the indicia. |
Characters | Woody Woodpecker; Knothead; Splinter; Jerky |
Synopsis | When Knothead's Bird Scout Troup leader gets sick they talk Woody into leading them on their hike to Indian Mesa, even though it means they have to let Splinter come along. When they get there they are almost chased away by some claim jumpers dressed up as Indian spooks but Knothead knows enough about the Indians that lived there that he knows they aren't real. When they are scared away a second time by a talking totem pole they leave Splinter behind and so they have to go back and find her. They end up captured by the claim jumpers and it is up to Splinter to rescue them. |
Genre | Funny Animals |
Editing | Michael Teitelbaum (original editor) ? |
Notes | A Walter Lantz Chuckletime comic story. |
Reprinted | from March of Comics (Dell, 1946 series) #239 ? |
Characters | Andy Panda; Charlie Chicken |
Notes | How to make a paper trumpet. |
Characters | Space Mouse; Size, King of Rodentia; The Giant Tooter |
Synopsis | When Size gets a call for help from one of the fringe galaxies he sends Space Mouse to check it out. When he gets there he finds some Nose Tooters that he has to help because they are being picked on by a four-headed giant. |
Genre | Funny Animals; Science Fiction |
Reprinted | from Walter Lantz Space Mouse (Gold Key, 1962 series) #3 (May 1963) [original title: "Space Mouse Meets the Four-Headed Giant"] |
Characters | Woody Woodpecker |
Notes | A word puzzle. |
Characters | Winnie; Uncle Westly; Claim-Jump Johnson |
Synopsis | When Winnie's Uncle Westly shows up at her home because invisible injun spooks chased him away from his claim he creates such a mess that Winnie takes him back to his claim to debunk the spooks and get him out of her house. |
Genre | Funny Animals |
Pencils | Jack Carey ? |
Inks | Jack Carey ? |
Characters | Pepe; Pepito; Mama |
Synopsis | Pepe, the former boxing champion, raises his son Pepito to be the next boxing champion but he wants to play the drums instead. Fortunately, he figures out how to do both. |
Genre | Funny Animals |
Pencils | Paul Murry |
Inks | Paul Murry |
Reprinted | from Woody Woodpecker County Fair (Dell, 1956 series) #2 (November 1958) |
Characters | Oswald the Rabbit; Floyd; Lloyd |
Notes | A number puzzle. |
Characters | Chilly Willy; Patty; Bully Bear |
Synopsis | When Chilly notices that everyone seems to be an expert at something but him he decides to be an explorer. He sets off to make a map of the other side of Stumbling Block Glacier. Unfortunately (for him), Bully Bear thinks that instead of making a map he must be following one to buried treasure and he takes off after him, inadvertently helping Chilly along the way. |
Genre | Funny Animals |
Notes | Title is taken from the contents page. The first sentence is "Another whopper!". |
Characters | Knothead; Splinter |
Genre | Humor |
Notes | A page full of jokes. |
Genre | Fact |
Notes | A "factual" article on Triceratops, Brachiosarus and Lambeosaurus dinosaurs. |
Characters | Captain Bruce Martin; Hale; Peter Dunn; Smith |
Synopsis | The story of the first manned spaceship sent to orbit the Sun to gather data so that earth can shield it's radio waves against a giant sunspot. |
Genre | Science Fiction |
Reprinted | from March of Comics (Dell, 1946 series) #219 ? |
Characters | Bugs Bunny; Professor Bumble; Elmer Fudd |
Synopsis | Bugs decides to help Elmer grow hair using Professor Bumble's Fuzz water but he mistakenly dumps a bottle all over his body and Elmer ends up looking like a big dog and is promptly thrown in the pound. |
Genre | Funny Animals |
Notes | A Warner Bros. Funtastics story. |
Characters | Petunia Pig |
Notes | How to make flowers from yarn, paper and pipe cleaners. |
Characters | Beep Beep the Road Runner; Wile E. Coyote |
Synopsis | Wile tries to trap Beep Beep at an abandoned gas station but Beep Beep tricks him into burning his fur off so that he can't chase him until it grows back. |
Genre | Funny Animals |
Characters | Daffy Duck |
Notes | Riddles. First line: "If Daffy climbs up the steep side of a mountain, where should he get down?" |
Reprinted | from Looney Tunes (Dell, 1955 series) #196 (February 1958) |
Characters | Tweety; Sylvester |
Synopsis | Tweety is a caged bird in the zoo when Sylvester sees him and decides to eat him. Unfortunately for Sylvester, everytime he tries to get Tweety he ends up with a different, more wild animal from the zoo. |
Genre | Funny Animals |
Characters | Elmer Fudd |
Notes | A word scramble puzzle. |
Characters | Cool Cat; Mr. Hunter; Ella; Rhina |
Synopsis | When Mr. Hunter trades in Ella (his old faithful elephant) for the faster Rhina (a rhino) Cool Cat is almost captured. He looks for a faster ride for himself to help him get away but nothing seems to work until he has a brainstorm. |
Genre | Funny Animals |
Characters | Porky Pig |
Notes | Riddles. |
Characters | Daffy Duck |
Synopsis | When Daffy Duck drops in on an indian and trys to mooch a meal the indian thinks he is offering himself for the meal. Daffy has to hurry and convince the indian to eat something else before he decides he wants duck soup again. |
Genre | Funny Animals |
Reprinted | from Daffy Duck (Gold Key, 1962 series) #31 (December 1962) [original layout=5 pages] |
Characters | Terry A. Laughlin; Malcolm P. Carr |
Synopsis | The story of Terry A. Laughlin, a Carnegie Hero Fund Medal winner. |
Genre | Fact |
Notes | Includes spot illustration of Carnegie Hero Fund Medal. |
Characters | John Colter |
Synopsis | The story of John Colter, the famous explorer. |
Genre | Western |
Characters | Tom; Jerry; Tuffy |
Synopsis | Tom is looking for money so he asks Jerry and Tuffy for some. They tell him no and that their money is hidden too well for him to find it. Tom sees an article in the paper that says if you are happy and smile a lot fortune will smile on you. When he tries it and finds a penny Jerry and Tuffy get worried he will find their piggy bank and they try in vain to find a better hiding place. |
Genre | Funny Animals |
Characters | Barney Bear |
Notes | A box-in-the-dots puzzle. |
Characters | Droopy; Bring'-Em-Back Black; Mammie |
Synopsis | Droopy feels unsafe outside so he trades places with a dog in a kennel that is looking for some excitement. Unfortunately for Droopy, as soon as he gets settled in at the pound he is removed and sent to Lower Liptwitch to hunt Elephas Primigenius (a prehistoric Elephant) where he meets up with a lion, a rhino and a gorilla before he finds what he is looking for. |
Genre | Funny Animals |
Reprinted | from M.G.M.'s Tom & Jerry's Winter Fun (Dell, 1954 series) #6 (1957) [original layout=5 pages?] |
Characters | Flip; Dip |
Notes | A crossword puzzle. |
Characters | Mouse Musketeers; M'sieur Poosy-Cat; The King |
Synopsis | When the Mouse Musketeers think they see M'sieur Poosy-Cat pledging allegiance to a dragon head they think he is pledging allegiance to "The Order of the Dragon" and therefore they think that he is trying to overthrow the king and they set about to protect him. |
Genre | Funny Animals |
Characters | Tom |
Notes | A word picture puzzle. |
Characters | Bertie Bird; Jay Brothers; The Crimson Daredevil [Bertie Bird]; Earl |
Synopsis | Bertie is jealous because of the special treatment that the Jay Brothers get for their aerial acrobatics so he makes a disguise and tries to do his own tricks. Unfortunately, the paint used for his disguise hasn't dried and he isn't really very good at aerial tricks either. |
Genre | Funny Animals |
Script | Carl Fallberg ? |
Pencils | Al Hubbard ? |
Inks | Al Hubbard ? |
Reprinted | from M.G.M.'s Tom & Jerry's Winter Fun (Dell, 1954 series) #6 (1957) [original layout=4 pages?] |
Characters | Spike; Tyke |
Notes | A Word Game. |
Characters | Little Quacker; Wendel Wildcat |
Synopsis | Little Quacker is very frustrated by the way minor things that happen in the river keep affecting him, but the petty problems are quickly washed away when Wendel Wildcat tears a hole in the dam so that he can eat the animals on the other side of the dam. Little Quacker manages to escape him and uses a canoe to stop him. Because of his help the beaver agrees to build something to help him with some of the minor problems he used to have. |
Genre | Funny Animals |
Reprinted | from Tom & Jerry Picnic Time (Dell, 1958 series) #1 (July 1958) [original layout=4 pages?] |
Script | ? (promo copy) |
Notes | Advertisement for the Summer Fun For Boys and Girls Magazine, which is a collection of summer activities including puzzles, games, coloring pages, things to make, riddles, cutouts and quiz questions. Includes a reprint of the cover. |
Characters | Cracky |
Genre | Humor |
Script | ? (promo copy) |
Notes | Advertisement for Jokes By Cracky #2, including an illustration and a small reprint of the cover. |