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Walter Lantz New Funnies, #262

Published: December 1958

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Walter Lantz New Funnies #262

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Issue Contents:
1 page anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
  • Woody Woodpecker
  • Walter Lantz (photograph, inset)
Credits
Tell Mom and Dad --

Featuring Dell Comics

Story 1 1 page
Story Notes

Inside front cover. Promo for subscriptions to Dell comics, with mail-in coupons. 12 issues for $1.20 or five or more subscriptions $1.00 each.

Story 2 10 pages anthropomorphic-funny animals

"Do you really think we can spot any caves from up here, Woody?"

Storyline

Woody takes the kids in a helicopter to the north woods mountains to look for prehistoric cave man artifacts. They find a cave with artifacts, but it also is the hide-out for a couple of fur thieves, who pretend to be cave men.

Characters
  • Woody Woodpecker
  • Knothead
  • Splinter
Credits
Story Notes

Title as "Disappearing [?]" (incomplete) from Fallberg's notes; first line of dialogue used as title instead.

Hotel Hocus Pocus (1)
Story 3 8 pages anthropomorphic-funny animals

"Buying this decrepit hotel definitely wasn't one of my better brainstorms!"

Storyline

Andy buys an old hotel in a small town. Charlie comes to visit and thinks it would help if the hotel would be recommended by world-famous expert Glutwell P. Lushliver, who is rumored to be in the area. Charlie goes out to look for him, but gets fooled by a swindler.

Characters
  • Andy Panda
  • Charlie Chicken
  • Glutwell P. Lushliver
  • Sam the Sponger
Credits
Story Notes

Title from Fallberg's notes.

Snow Trouble

Featuring Knothead and Splinter

Story 4 1 page anthropomorphic-funny animals
Storyline

Woody grumbles when the kids take his broom and mop to use as arms for their snowman. Later when Woody gets lost in a blizzard near the house, he uses the snowman to guide him back to the house.

Characters
  • Knothead
  • Splinter
  • Woody Woodpecker
Credits
Story 5 6 pages anthropomorphic-funny animals

"Drat it! This is the third time!"

Storyline

Someone keeps stealing items at night from Wilbur's Trading Post. Ping and Pong explore an old sunken ship and find an octopus playing pirate.

Characters
  • Chilly Willy
  • Wilbur Walrus
  • Ping
  • Pong
Story 6 6 pages anthropomorphic-funny animals

"Gee, Poppa Oswald! You did it again!"

Storyline

Oswald has no sales resistance to door-to-door salesmen. Floyd and Lloyd try to keep salesmen away, but mistake plainclothes policemen for salesmen.

Characters
  • Oswald the Rabbit
  • Floyd
  • Lloyd
150 Civil War Soldiers
Story 7 1 page
Story Notes

Illustrated ad for 150 plastic Civil War soldiers for $1.49 from Josely Co., Dept W-5, Carle Place, Long Island, NY.

Story 8 1 page anthropomorphic-funny animals

"Okay, okay! If that's the way you feel about it, you can just fish all by yourself!"

Storyline

Andy is annoyed when Charlie brings a loaf of bread when he's fishing, in case he catches a jellyfish.

Characters
  • Charlie Chicken
  • Andy Panda
  • Woody Woodpecker
Credits
Story Notes

Inside back cover.

For the Best of Christmas
Story 9 1 page

"Ask Mom and Dad for the exciting bike all the kids want!"

Characters
  • Santa Claus
Story Notes

Back cover. Christmas-themed ad for Schwinn bicycles. Schwinn Mark II Jaguar is illustrated.