PonyTail: Monster Mash

Here is a story from Dell Comics PonyTail # 10, April-June 1965. The story-line seems very familiar if you have ever watched any of the comedy haunted house movies like Ghost Breakers or The Ghost and Mr. Chicken or many, many others. The old formula is always fun.

Lee Holley is the artist on this comic book series, based on his syndicated feature. He has a nice energetic and free style which reminded me of Hank Ketcham. It makes sense -he was a Ketcham assistent from '56-'60.









Thanks to the original scanner.

The Abominable Birdman

Here is a standard, but fun, story formula of Woody searching for a mysterious snow-creature. It is from Dell Comics, Woody Woodpecker, #55, 1959.

Something that is very different, from Disney Comics, in Walter Lantz's Woody Woodpecker comic book adventures is that Woody and his family, nephew and niece Knothead and Splinter, are often the only anthropomorphic animals in a world of humans. Walter Lantz told the story of the inspiration for Woody as being a woodpecker that was annoying him and his wife when they were on their honeymoon. If the story is true or not doesn't matter; but it does establish the woodpecker as being at odds with the world of human beings.




©1959 Walter Lantz Productions