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Porky Pig

Porky Pig

236 appearances Β· Golden Age Β· 1941–2025 Β· 7 key issues
Who is Porky Pig?

Porky Pig is the lovable, stuttering everyman character created by Warner Bros. who starred in animated cartoons before transitioning to comics with Dell's Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Comics #1 in 1941, bringing his good-natured, bumbling adventures to the printed page.

Few comic characters can claim a Golden Age debut and still be gracing pages in 2025, but Porky Pig has done exactly that β€” launching in Dell's Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Comics #1 back in 1941, with Win Smith among the creators who brought him to the printed page. Over 84 years and 236 catalogued appearances, he's become one of comics' most enduring funny-animal icons, headlining his own long-running Porky Pig series while keeping lively company with the likes of Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Petunia Pig, and Sylvester. With seven key issues to his name, collectors have plenty of reasons to dig into his run β€” this is a character whose comic legacy is as deep and warm as the Golden Age itself.

Teams & affiliations
Looney Tunes
β˜… First appearance
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Comics #1
Aug 1941

Trivia

  • When Dell's relationship with Western ended, Porky's comics didn't simply vanish β€” the title migrated to Western/Gold Key, where the series pressed on under a new publisher with the same beloved character and even more head-scratching issue-number oddities in tow.sunilslists.com
  • Don R. Christensen has written more of Porky Pig's comics than any other writer in our catalog β€” 36 issues.

Top series

Covers through the years β€” 1941–2020

Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Comics #1 β˜… 1941
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Comics #1
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies #120 β˜… 1951
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies #120
Porky Pig #32 1954
Porky Pig #32
Porky Pig #68 1960
Porky Pig #68
Cracked #241 1988
Cracked #241
Cracked #267 1991
Cracked #267
Space Jam #[nn] 1996
Space Jam #[nn]
Looney Tunes #100 2003
Looney Tunes #100
Looney Tunes #144 2007
Looney Tunes #144
Looney Tunes #217 2014
Looney Tunes #217
Looney Tunes #252 2020
Looney Tunes #252

Appearances (151–236 of 236, oldest first)

Golden Comics Digest (1969)
New Terrytoons (1962)
#35
The Little Monsters (1964)
Underdog (1975)
#7
Ripley's Believe It or Not! (1965)
#62
Gold Key Spotlight (1976)
#2
UFO Flying Saucers (1968)
#12
Bugs Bunny (1962)
Walt Disney the Beagle Boys versus Uncle Scrooge (1979)
#7
Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (1970)
#53
Cracked (1985)
Mad (1952)
Space Jam (1996)
Cracked Summer Special (1991)
#7
Bugs Bunny and Friends (1998)
Looney Tunes: Back in Action Movie Adaptation (2003)
#1
The Comics Before 1945 (2004)
Justice League Unlimited [Free Comic Book Day Edition] (2006)
#1
The Comics: The Complete Collection (2008)
Grayson (2016)
#4
Looney Tunes Greatest Hits (2016)
#2
Detective Comics (2011)
Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)
Batman by Tom King (2024)
#1
Four Color (1947)