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Issue: Boys' and Girls' March of Comics #99
Publication Date: July 1953
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Issues: #99 of 488 Issues (1575 Printings)
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Variant: (blank)
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Publisher: FlagWestern
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: K. K. Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.00 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 10 (2 stories, 2 covers)
Editor(s): Chase Craig
Disclose Notes: The inside front and inside back covers are blank. Front and back covers may have ads or logo images from various retailers that use the book as a giveaway premium. Splash panel code: K.K.G.A. #99-537
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: Early issues standard Golden Age U.S.; 1952-1959 oblong; later half-size
Paper Stock: most glossy cover and newsprint interior. Early issues all newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was on-going
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A Big Fan of Sliced Bread

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, artistic
Character(s): Porky Pig
Synopsis: Porky uses the rotating blades of an electric fan to make slices out of a loaf of bread.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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The Ostrich Horse Race

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, artistic
Character(s): Porky Pig; Petunia Pig; Oscar (ostrich); Cicero Pig; Bugs Bunny; sand-truck driver; Jenks (newspaper reporter); Mr. Grumpus; Black Warrior (Mr. Grumpus' racehorse); Black Warrior's jockey
First Line: Oh, Porky, thank goodness! You're here just in time to help me with Oscar!
Synopsis: Porky enters Petunia's ostrich in a horse race.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 26
Disclose Notes: Twenty-six pages in this format is the equivalent of thirteen standard comic book pages. Writer Christensen's name appears as an author on a book's cover on page 10, panel 4.
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[untitled]

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Subject Matter
Synopsis: 4 pages of puzzles
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Pages: 4
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Cane-Enabled Skiing

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, artistic
Character(s): Porky Pig; Cicero Pig; Bugs Bunny
First Line: Quick, Bugs...I want to buy two canes!
Synopsis: Cicero buys two canes off of Pharmacist Bugs to use as skis on a downhill oil-slick.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Two pages in this format is the equivalent of one standard comic book page.
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Finish Porky's House

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Porky Pig
First Line: Porky wants to complete his house.
Synopsis: Trace or cut-out a series of provided shapes and properly fit them in the available space with the frame of Porky's unfinished wall.
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Who Will Win the Cake?

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Porky Pig; Petunia Pig; four separate versions of Cicero Pig
First Line: First take an ordinary pen point and make a spinner of it as above.
Synopsis: Up to four players race through a winding and intersecting course to "win" Petunia's cake at the end of the course.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: A spinner to determine the number of spaces-to-advance is constructed using a fountain pen point. Pennies or buttons are used as markers. Four distinct versions of Cicero designate the different racers, rather than one "Cicero" and three other Warner characters. The race course is nicely spread over two oblong pages.
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The Stormy Maze

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Porky Pig; Petunia Pig
First Line: Porky Pig wants to help Petunia who is lost in the rain.
Synopsis: Guide Porky through a maze (in the form of a rainstorm) to an umbrella, and then back to Petunia.
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Disclose Notes: At the end of the initial "instructions caption" Petunia is misspelled as "Pertunia".
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[untitled]

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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Smiling Porky

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Porky Pig
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Two-thirds of this back cover is reserved for the logo and ad copy for whichever firm is distributing the issue as a giveaway premium. This space can be blank if no named sponsor. The top half of the remaining third of the cover space consists of rectangle containing a smiling Porky head by Ralph Heimdahl. The entire rectangle, including the image of Porky, is colored blue. No additional coloring. The lower half of the remaining third of the cover space contains the "March of Comics" logo.

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