Four Color #364

This 1951 Dell offering puts Walter Lantz's Woody Woodpecker front and center in full mischievous form, clinging to the nose of a sleek yellow rocket ship while a helmeted pilot looks on from the cockpit — Earth and Saturn visible in the starry background behind them. The cover art by Dan Gormley captures that perfect blend of slapstick energy and space-age wonder that made mid-century funny-animal comics so irresistible. With a story titled "Woody Woodpecker and the Man from Mars," this ten-cent issue promises the kind of cosmic chaos only Woody could deliver.