CREATOR

Name: Western Printing & Lithographic Co. AKA Western Publishing (American comics corporation).
Personal dates: Founded in 1916 by the brothers Edward (1878-1955) and Albert Wadewitz. Publishing of comic books began in 1932. Stopped in 2001.
Other creations: Too numerous to mention here. Please look under Western in the Creators section.
Successors: None.
Comments: The corporation published most of its comic books via subsidiaries, some of which were Dell, Gold Key, and Whitman.
The corporation never used a logo on their comic book front covers.

 

 

MAIN STORY

The series premiered in 1958*. Stopped in 1962 after 16 issues.

The series contains funny animal stories primarily featuring Poll Parrot.

This series was financed and sold as giveaways by the shoe store company Poll Parrot (started by Paul Parrot in 1925), that used its male mascot in the issues.

* Initially, issues #2, 3, 4, 6, and 7 came in 1951, but they were reprinted for the extended series on this page.

 

 

MAIN CHARACTERS

None.

 

 

GALLERY
(presenting the front covers from 6 random issues).

#1 - 1958
#4 - 1959
#6 - 1959

#9 - 1960
#13 - 1961
#16 - 1962

 

 

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