1968 RE-RELASE POSTER OF THE THREE LITTLE PIGS

VINTAGE BIG BAD WOLF TOY DRUM

This vintage toy drum by Ohio Art Co. is currently being offered on ebay. The seller says the item is from 1930s, which is a reasonable 'though not necessarily definite estimate (it could also be from 1940s). Ohio Art Co. is a toy manifacturer dating back to early 20th century and still in business.

THREE LITTLE WOLVES (1936) BRITISH MAGAZINE AD

Above image is of a full-page ad promoting the release of Three Little Wolves (1936) in London's Leicester Square Theatre. The ad is currently being offered on ebay, but the seller hasn't specified neither the title nor the date of the magazine from which this page has been culled.

ITALIAN STICKER FROM 1952



This Italian sticker is currently on sale on ebay. It was part of a set of stickers from a 1952 album titled Albo raccolta figurine di Topolino e Paperino. The illustration appears to be taken from Silly Symphony Sunday newspaper strips of 1930s.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BIG BAD WOLF!

 Today is the 80th anniversary of the release of The Three Little Pigs.

BIG BAD WOLF CARTOON AD (1934)

This newspaper ad for weekend dates for the cartoon short Big Bad Wolf (1934), the sequel to Three Little Pigs (1933), is on sale in ebay (for 25 US drs). It's from a local US newspaper titled Bellingham Herald and is dated June 2, 1934.

MEXICAN LOBBY CARD

This Mexican lobby card featuring a still from Three Little Pigs (1933) was recently offered on ebay, but I missed it. It promotes Festival de los 11 premios de Walt Disney, a compilation of Disney cartoon shorts. Originally released in the US in 1937 as Academy Award Review Of Walt Disney Cartoons and featuring five cartoons including Three Little Pigs, it was re-relased in 1966 with the inclusion of further cartoons. This Mexican lobby card obviously dates from the re-release era. Note that the illustrations on the frames include Li'l Wolf who was actually never featured in any animated cartoon.

GERMAN BIG BAD WOLF VS THE PIGS BOOKLER FROM 1961

In 1961, the Hamburg-based German publisher Blüchert Verlag began issuing a series of Disney booklets called Micky Maus Buch. The no. 3 of the series was Die 3 kleinen Schweinchen und der böse Wolf. In 1964, the series was picked up by another German publisher, Pestalozzi-Verlag who reprinted all of Blüchert's booklets (and continued the series with new titles). In this vein, Die 3 kleinen Schweinchen und der böse Wolf was first reprinted as no. 10 of Pestalozzi-Verlag's 'Micky Maus Buch' series. In 1988, the title would be reprinted for once again, this time as no. 103. Scans of pages featuring the wolf in this post are from the 1988 reprint (the cover doesn't feature the wolf):

GERMAN BIG BAD WOLF VS 3 PIGS BOOKLET (1970)

Above scan is of the title page of Die 3 kleinen Scheiweinchen bauen ein Haus (1970), a German illustrated story booklet featuring the archetypal three pigs fable. The cover illustration features only the pigs and not the wolf, but the illustration on this title page is re-used as the back cover illustration. Below are the pages featuring the wolf:

I didnot crop out the interior of the back cover so that you may see the whole list of titles from Pestalozzi-Verlag's 'Micky Maus Buch' series as it stood in 1970. Other titles featuring the Big Bad Wolf from this series were earlier covered in this blog and this and this posts.

BIG BAD WOLF IN YUGOSLAVIAN DISNEY COMICS (1937)

This panel is from a six pages long comics published in the no. 7 of the Yugoslavian magazine Zabavnik in 1937 (*). It is the only appearance of the Big Bad Wolf in this Yugoslavian made comics. His figure has been redrawn from one of the panels of 'The Further Adventures of the Three Little Pigs' Sunday newspaper strip from 1936, shown below in a reprint from Britain's Mickey Mouse Weekly from the same year:
(*) The full Yugoslavian comics can be viewed from a post from March 29th, 2010 in Didier Ghez's Disney History blog.

BIG BAD WOLF POCKET WATCH

This pocket watch, said to be in "full working order", was recently sold in ebay for 650 British pounds. I think it is a US product even though it was auctioned by a UK-based seller. The seller had dated it as being from 1934, but the Disneyana reference book dates it as from 1933.

STUDENT PASS FROM 1946 WITH BIG BAD WOLF IMAGE

This interesting little item, listed as "St Louis Trolley Student Pass 1946", is currently being offered on ebay.

BIG BAD WOLF IN UNDERGROUND COMICS

Above image is of the cover of no. 1 of Dan O'Neill's Comics and Stories, an 'underground' satire comics magazine. The title, as well the logo design, is obviously reminiscent of Walt Disney's Comics & Stories. The "January 1948" date printed on the cover is spurious: the comics was actually published circa 1971. Dan O'Neill (1942- ) is an American underground comics artist who led a small group of like-minded artists who put out a comics magazine titled Air Pirates featuring Mickey Mouse and some other Disney comics characters in 1971. They were immediately sued by the Disney Company which won the case in a prolonged trial and appeals, but a successful protest campaign by O'Neill and his compatriots ("Mouse Liberation Front"!) led to an eventual settlement in 1980. I am not clear if Dan O'Neill's Comics and Stories was also invoked in the lawsuit; if anyone knows any better, please let us know.
There were three issues of the "Vol. 1" of Dan O'Neill's Comics and Stories. The cover of no. 2 featured the Practical Pig being machine-gunned by Bucky Bug.

BRITISH-MADE BIG BAD WOLF ILLUSTRATED STORY (1953)

The no. 709 (dated Dec. 12th, 1953) of Britain's Mickey Mouse Weekly featured an interesting Three Pigs vs Big Bad Wolf illustrated story titled 'The House That Wasn't There'. Inspired by the classic tale 'The Emperor's New Clothes', Practical Pig spreads the word that he has built a very strong house. Even though no such house has been built, he instructs his brothers to act as if there was such a house. However, the Big Bad Wolf has also read the tale and rushes onto the scene, aware that there is no house on the spot. Unfortunately for him, the cunning Practical Pig has dug up a hidden trench:
I find this story interesting because it implies the wolf to be a cultured creature; the Practical Pig can outwit him because he takes it for granted that the wolf would be familiar with the tale.

CENSORED BIG BAD WOLF IN BRITAIN'S MICKEY MOUSE XMAS SPECIAL (1939)

Mickey Mouse Xmas Special, published by Britain's Odham Press late in 1939, carries a two and a half pages long illustrated story titled 'Laugh, Hyena, Haugh' which features the Big Bad Wolf as a supporting character. This is actually a revised edition of a story earlier published in vol.2 no.2 (dated Nov. 1936) of the American Mickey Mouse Magazine under the exact same title. The story concerns a boxing match between Donald Duck and a hyena, assisted by the Big Bad Wolf. While the original US edition carries a single illustration featuring only Donald and his nemesis, the British edition features new illustrations and the wolf is depicted in two of them, once in the background (see above) and once in the foreground:And yet, the differences between the two editions are not limited to the illustrations. The texts are almost identical, except for a few insignificant paraphrasings here and there and one case of censorship: In the US edition, the Big Bad Wolf calls Donald a "sissy"; in the US edition, he calls the duck a "coward"...

GERMAN BOOKLET

In an earlier post on this blog, I had covered a German illustrated story booklet featuring the Big Bad Wolf. Above is another bookler from the same series published by Pestalozzi-Verlag.

THREE LITTLE WOLVES ILLUSTRATIONS IN BRITISH PAINTING BOOK

Above photo from the vintage Mickey Mouse Painting Book by the British publisher Dean shows two page of illustrations based on the cartoon short Three Little Wolves (1936). The illustration with the Big Bad Wolf was also used in the British Silly Symphony Annual (1937) by Collins.

BIG BAD WOLF COMICS IN CHILEAN DISNEY MAGAZINE FROM 1937

This image is of the pages 28 and 29 of the no. 19 of Album Mickey, a Chilean Disney publication from 1937. It is not an extract from the Three Little Pigs Sunday newspaper continuity from 1936 and hence possibly an original Chilean production. For more info on this obscure publication, see my post in my other blog on vintage Disney publications: http://kayaozkaracalar3.blogspot.com/2011/04/chilean-mickey-mouse-magazine-from-1937.html

ITALIAN THREE PIGS MAGAZINE (1935-37)

In 1935, Italian publisher Mondadori, which had been publishing Topolino [Mickey Mouse] since 1932, put out a new weekly children's magazine titled I tre porcellini [Three Pigs]. The front page of no. 1, dated March 28th, featured an illustrated story based on the cartoon short Three Little Pigs (1933). The panels on the first two rows originate from an American book, by NY publisher Blue Ribbon, featuring the illustrated story adaptation of the cartoon. The last panel, on the other hand, is actually a collage: The left portion of the panel with the two piglets under the bed is again taken from that book and the right portion with the third pig is redrawn from another illustration from the same book, but the central portion with the wolf is apparently original.
Despite the title, I tre porcellini did not predominantly feature the Three Little Pigs; it did not actually feature Disney comics exclusively. While some 'Silly Symphony' comics, including 'The Further Adventures of the Three Little Pigs' from 1936, were serialized, a large body of the featured comics were non-Disneyic. The pigs and the wolf made into its cover for the second and last time with no. 93, dated Dec. 31st, 1936:

Cover images taken from outducks archive

BIG BAD WOLF IN CHILDRE'NS WALLPAPER DESIGN

Above scan is from a children's wallpaper currently being sold in an Istanbul bookshop. It was recently given as a gift to me by my brother -even though I don't have a child!

BIG BAD WOLF IN INTERIOR COVER DESIGNS

Above scan is of the interiors of the front and back covers of the first 8 books from the 'Renkli Çocuk Kitapları' series published by Turkey's Arkın Kitabevi in 1966. When we were kids, me and my brother had savored these books via their reprints in the 1970s and one of my first, if not the first, exposure to the Big Bad Wolf was from these interior cover designs, hence the placement of the BBW illustration from it in the masthead of this blog!
When Arkın published a further 8 books from this series in 1967, the design of the interiors of the covers changed, but the BBW was featured in two of the total four new designs:

If anyone has seen these illustrations elsewhere and/or has any hint/info on their origial source, PLEASE let me know!!...

GYRO VERSUS THE BIG BAD WOLF

As noted in yesterday's post in this blog, the Big Bad Wolf had made a small appearance in one of the booklets, featuring Gyro Gearloose, of an illustrated story book series from Germany. Above scan is of the page in which the wolf appears from the Turkish edition titled Arşimet'in Buluşları [The Inventions of Gyro Gearloose], published in 1967 as no. 16 of Arkın Kitabevi's 'Renkli Çocuk Kitapları' series. The episode with the Big Bad Wolf involves Gyro catching the wolf who had seaked into the inventor's laboratory.

GERMAN ILLUSTRATED STORY BOOKLET ADAPTATION OF BIG BAD WOLF COMICS

As a kid, I was especially delighted to see this Big Bad Wolf booklet, among other Disney booklets from the same series, in an Istanbul bookshop selling foreign books and had immediately bought them (or had my parents buy for me!) even though I couldn't read German... That was probably sometime in the mid-1970s. Now, I have discovered that it was derived from an American comics, published in no. 394 (dated July 1973) of Walt Disney's Comics & Stories, with art by Phil DeLara. Below are scans of the whole book and the comics it was derived from:

The no. 10 of Pestalozzi-Verlag's 'Walt Disney's Micky Maus Buch' series features the Three Little Pigs and is titled Die 3 kleinen Schweinchen und der böse Wolf (first published in 1965), but I don't have that one. No. 19, titled Der kleine Wolf, features the Li'l Wolf, but the Big Bad Wolf doesn't appear. On the other had, he makes a small appearance in no. 21 titled Daniel Düsentrieb from 1967, featuring Gyro Gearloose.
Pestalozzi-Verlag had started its 'Walt Disney's Micky Maus Buch' series in 1964, taking over from Bluchert Verlag's series with the identical series title and format from circa 1961-62. The initial books from Pestolazzi were reprints from Bluchert, but eventually they added new entries, such as this one. Not all stories in the series are derived from comics, some are German editions of US illustrated story books from the 1950s and most are of (yet-)unidentified origin. The series also had a British edition in the 1960s by Purnell and a French edition in the same decade by Hachette ("mini livre" series). The Turkish edition by Arkın Kitabevi from 1966-67 was of a larger and taller format than all the rest, some of the stories were also serialized in Arkın's short-lived Renkli Miki weekly comics magazine from 1966.