Petunia Pig
Petunia Pig is Porky Pig's good-natured girlfriend, appearing in Dell's early Looney Tunes comics beginning in 1941. A cheerful anthropomorphic pig, she originated as a supporting character in the Looney Tunes animated universe before transitioning to comics.
Petunia Pig made her comics debut in the very first issue of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Comics back in 1941, making her a genuine Golden Age original brought to the page by Win Smith. Over an extraordinary span stretching across eight decades and into 2025, she's accumulated 144 catalog appearances — a testament to her staying power in the beloved Dell funny-animal tradition. She's most at home in the pages of Porky Pig and the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies titles, sharing those colorful adventures with luminaries like Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, and Sniffles. With five key-issue appearances to her name and a run that launched from the very ground floor of Looney Tunes comics history, Petunia is an essential piece of the Golden Age funny-book world any serious collector will want to know.
Trivia
- Petunia Pig anchored Western Publishing's Dell, Gold Key, and Whitman Looney Tunes comic-book line as a major recurring character despite logging only a handful of animated appearances to her name.en.wikipedia.org
- A textbook case of print outlasting the screen, Petunia appeared regularly across decades of Western Publishing output in Dell-era titles such as Porky Pig and Looney Tunes, long after her animated relevance had faded.en.wikipedia.org
- Don R. Christensen has written more of Petunia Pig's comics than any other writer in our catalog — 27 issues.
Top series
Covers through the years — 1941–2020
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