Animal Comics #11 Values

Publisher: Dell, 1944

About Animal Comics #11

Walt Kelley cover and art.

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: Uncle Wiggily; Albert the Alligator

Pencils: Walt Kelly

Inks: Walt Kelly

STORY DETAILS

(9 Stories)

Title: Runaway Reddy

Characters: Reddy (the baby chick); Mrs. Mama Hen; Grasshopper

Synopsis: A wayward chick provokes a grasshopper, gets lost in the tall grass, is alone and afraid, and cries out. Mama comes and saves him. He expresses heartfelt contrition and repentance.

Pages: 1.000

Script: Gaylord Du Bois

Pencils: Walt Kelly

Inks: Walt Kelly

Notes: On inside front back cover in black, white and red. Writer credit per Du Bois Account Books. Du Bois, a fundamentalist lay preacher, tells here a most basic animal fable of a child seized by fear that, sans sermon or evangelism, manages to echo both Jesus's parable of the prodigal son who returns to the fold contrite and repentant, and Jesus's likening himself to a mother hen who longs to gather her chicks under her wing.

Title: Uncle Wiggily's Adventure-filled Day

Characters: Uncle Wiggily Longears; Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy; Prickly Porcupine; Growler Bear; Baby Birdies 1&2; Mrs. Mama Bird; Buggsey Bug; Two Bad Foxes

Synopsis: Wiggily saves Prickly from a bear-trap. Prickly saves him from Growler's stew-pot. They dine on Wiggily's cherry pie at toadstool table. A quill-prick prompts stalk-growth, lifting Wiggily aloft to feed pie to crying Baby Birdies. Prickly exits, toadstool-stalk recedes, stranding Wiggily aloft. Mrs Bird returns from grocer's, tows Wiggily off in her balloon-risen basket, joined by Buggsey. Bad Foxes hurl rocks. Sending Mrs Bird away to safety, Wiggily and Buggsey return fire with cherry pies. How now to land? A pin-prick by Buggsey, the balloon deflates, landing Wiggily right back home.

Pages: 12.000

Script: Gaylord Du Bois [as Howard R. Garis]

Pencils: H. R. McBride

Inks: H. R. McBride

Notes: Copyright 1944 Howard R. Garis. Writer credit per Du Bois Account Books. The narrative sequences: Begin / Episode / Interlude / Episode / Interlude / Episode / End. Du Bois themes are: Friendship (making friends by being a friend through doing acts of mercy or charity); and Brains Over Brawn (overcome threats and obstacles by using wits and getting help from friends, and Providence). Each episode follows a single pattern. • 1) Wiggily does an act of mercy, or, charity. • 2) A predicament grows from that act. • 3) The friend made by the act of kindness helps deliver Wiggily from the predicament.

Characters: Hector the Henpecked Rooster; Mrs. Bertha Henpeck; Herman

Synopsis: Bertha become the world's heavyweight wrestling champ.

Pages: 8.000

Script: John Stanley

Pencils: Rube Grossman

Inks: Rube Grossman

Notes: Copr. 1944 by Famous Studios.

Title: A Cure for Foolishness

Characters: Eddie Elephant [E.E.]; Little Brown Bear [L.B.]; Maisie Moocow [M.M.]; Mrs. Elephant; Dr. Stork; talking squirrels (and other forest creatures: deer, owl, cardinal, frog, sparrows, rabbit)

Synopsis: Eddie rebels against nature, wants hair like a lion, not bald as an elephant. Dr Stork humors him, applying seeded moss, and water it. Eddie loves his grassy head. Forest animals flee in terror. Maisie munches his mane. Mom is pleased.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Gaylord Du Bois

Pencils: George Kerr

Inks: George Kerr

Notes: Copr. 1944 by Johnny Gruelle Co. Writer credit per Du Bois Account Books. Written as 8p. The number of panels per page (7,8) suggests the cut to 6p. was accomplished without panel loss.

Title: The Winning Bounce

Characters: Bouncer Bunny; Gary Greyhound

Synopsis: Gary is the faster runner, but Bouncer jumps on his back and stays there, tells himself he's just learned that being the fastest thinker is best.

Pages: 1.000

Script: Gaylord Du Bois

Pencils: Walt Kelly

Inks: Walt Kelly

Letters: typeset

Notes: On inside back cover in black, white and red. Writer credit per Du Bois Account Books.

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	3
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	3

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