Four Color #260

Porky Pig saddles up for frontier adventure in this 1949 Dell offering, subtitled "Hero of the Wild West" — and the cover by Fred Abranz delivers the mood perfectly, showing a determined Porky in his yellow plaid shirt, cowboy hat, and holster belt, six-shooter in hand, while a wide-eyed young companion in her own hat and fringed outfit looks on anxiously behind him. It's a charming snapshot of Western derring-do rendered in Dell's warm, inviting style. With 52 pages of all-comics content at just a dime, this is a delightful piece of mid-century funny-animal storytelling.