Porky Pig #58

This cheerful 1958 Dell offering features Porky Pig dressed in his red jacket and blue bow tie, mallet in hand, watching a younger pig companion — sporting a blue hat and overalls — tend a small garden of blossoms with a trowel. Ralph Heimdahl's cover art captures a sweet, easygoing charm that made Dell's funny-animal books such a delight for young readers of the era. Inside, Phil De Lara brings the adventure with "The Jinxed Jewel of Rangapore," promising something a little more exotic than the tranquil gardening scene out front.