Walter Lantz Woody Woodpecker #135
In "Trick or Treaty," Woody Woodpecker stumbles into an absurdly bureaucratic quirk of history when he lands a government job that’s been vacant for 70 years—serving as messenger for a forgotten cavalry fort still manned by the perpetually pompous Colonel Cinchwell P. Bootjack. With a war declared but never ended due to the missing signature of Tired Turtle, the last of the Oollagagahs, Woody’s mission becomes a wild chase across the frontier, all drawn with energetic flair by John Carey and colored by the Western Publishing Production Shop. The cover, by Jack Manning, captures the zany spirit of the tale.
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Woody applies for a government job that has been open for 70 years, and finds himself as a messenger for a dilapidated cavalry fort still manned alone by the bombastic Colonel Cinchwell P. Bootjack. The fort has never been closed, and Colonel Bootjack never relieved of duty, because a technical state of war remains between the United States and the Oollagagah Indians, due to the small detail that an actual peace treaty has never been signed. Woody’s job is to find Tired Turtle, the last of the Oollagagahs, and get him to sign the peace treaty by hook or by crook.
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