Golden Comics Digest was one of three digest size

Digest size

Digest size is a magazine size, smaller than a conventional or "journal size" magazine but larger than a standard paperback book, approximately 5½ x 8¼ inches, but can also be 5⅜ x 8⅜ inches and 5½ x 7½ inches. These sizes have evolved from the printing press operation end...

 comics published by Gold Key Comics

Gold Key Comics

Gold Key Comics was an imprint of Western Publishing created for comic books distributed to newsstands. Also known as Whitman Comics, Gold Key operated from 1962 to 1984.-History:...

 in the early 1970s. The other two were the Mystery Comics Digest

Mystery Comics Digest

Mystery Comics Digest was one of three digest size comics published by Gold Key Comics in the early 1970s. The other two were Golden Comics Digest and Walt Disney Comics Digest....

 and Walt Disney Comics Digest

Walt Disney Comics Digest

Walt Disney Comics Digest was one of three digest size comics published by Gold Key Comics in the early 1970s. The other two were the Mystery Comics Digest and Golden Comics Digest....

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Published from 1969 to 1976, all 48 issues were reprints, mainly of various licensed properties. These included Tom and Jerry

Tom and Jerry

Tom and Jerry are the cat and mouse cartoon characters that were evolved starting in 1939.Tom and Jerry also may refer to:Cartoon works featuring the cat and mouse so named:* The Tom and Jerry Show...

, Bugs Bunny

Bugs Bunny

Bugs Bunny is a animated character created in 1938 at Leon Schlesinger Productions, later Warner Bros. Cartoons. Bugs is an anthropomorphic gray rabbit and is famous for his flippant, insouciant personality and his portrayal as a trickster. He has primarily appeared in animated cartoons, most...

and other Warner Brothers cartoons, Woody Woodpecker

Woody Woodpecker

Woody Woodpecker is an animated cartoon character, an anthropomorphic acorn woodpecker who appeared in theatrical short films produced by the Walter Lantz animation studio and distributed by Universal Pictures...

and other Walter Lantz Studios characters, The Pink Panther

The Pink Panther (character)

The Pink Panther is the main and title character in the opening and closing credit sequences of every film in The Pink Panther series except for A Shot in the Dark and Inspector Clouseau. His popularity spawned a series of theatrical shorts, merchandise, a comic book, and television cartoons...

, various Hanna-Barbera

Hanna-Barbera

Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. was an American animation studio that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century...

 properties, Tarzan

Tarzan (comics)

Tarzan, a fictional character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, first appeared in the 1912 novel Tarzan of the Apes, and then in 23 sequels. The character proved immensely popular and quickly made the jump to other media, including comics.-Comic strips:...

, Lone Ranger, and their own Turok

Turok

Turok is a fictional American comic book character initially in comics from Western Publishing published through licensee Dell Comics. He first appeared in Four Color Comics #596 , then graduated to his own title, Turok, Son of Stone...

and Brothers of the Spear

Brothers of the Spear

Brothers of the Spear was a long-running backup feature in the Tarzan comic book series created by Western Publishing and published first through Dell Comics and then through Gold Key Comics...

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Issue contents

1. Tom and Jerry, Woody Woodpecker, Bugs Bunny and friends
2. Hanna-Barbera TV Fun Favorites (Space Ghost
   Space Ghost
   Space Ghost is a fictional superhero created by Hanna-Barbera Productions and designed by Alex Toth for CBS in the 1960s. In his original incarnation, he was a superhero who, with his sidekick teen helpers Jan, Jace, and Blip the monkey, fought supervillains in outer space...
   
   , The Flintstones
   The Flintstones
   The Flintstones is an animated, prime-time American television sitcom that screened from September 30, 1960 to April 1, 1966, on ABC. Produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, The Flintstones was about a working class Stone Age man's life with his family and his next-door neighbor and best friend. It...
   
   , Yogi Bear
   Yogi Bear
   Yogi Bear is a fictional bear who appears in animated cartoons created by Hanna-Barbera Productions. He made his debut in 1958 as a supporting character in The Huckleberry Hound Show. Yogi Bear was the first breakout character created by Hanna-Barbera, and was eventually more popular than...
   
   , The Jetsons
   The Jetsons
   The Jetsons is a animated American sitcom that was produced by Hanna-Barbera, originally airing in prime-time from 1962–1963 and again from 1985–1987...
   
   , etc.)
3. Tom and Jerry, Woody Woodpecker
4. Tarzan (plus Brothers of the Spear)
5. Tom and Jerry, Woody Woodpecker, Bugs Bunny
6. Bugs Bunny
7. Hanna-Barbera TV Fun Favorites
8. Tom and Jerry, Woody Woodpecker, Bugs Bunny
9. Tarzan (plus Brothers of the Spear)
10. Bugs Bunny
11. Hanna Barbara TV Fun Favorites
12. Tom and Jerry, Woody Woodpecker, Bugs Bunny, Journey to the Sun
13. Tom and Jerry
14. Bugs Bunny Fun Packed Funnies
15. Tom and Jerry
16. Woody Woodpecker Cartoon Special
17. Bugs Bunny
18. Tom and Jerry, Barney Bear
19. Little Lulu
    Little Lulu
    "Little Lulu" is the nickname for Lulu Moppett, a comic strip character created in the mid-1930s by Marjorie Henderson Buell. The character debuted in The Saturday Evening Post on February 23, 1935 in a single panel, appearing as a flower girl at a wedding and strewing the aisle with banana peels...
    
    
20. Woody Woodpecker Falltime Funtime
21. Bugs Bunny Showtime
22. Tom and Jerry Winter Wingding
23. Little Lulu and Tubby Fun Fling
24. Woody Woodpecker Fun Festival
25. Tom and Jerry (Doctor Spektor
    Doctor Spektor
    Doctor Spektor is a fictional comic book "occult detective" that appeared in Western Publishing's Gold Key Comics. Created by writer Donald Glut and artist Dan Spiegle, he first appeared in Mystery Comics Digest #5 -Publication history:...
    
     article)
26. Bugs Bunny Halloween Hulla-Boo-Loo (Doctor Spektor article)
27. Little Lulu and Tubby in Hawaii
28. Tom and Jerry
29. Little Lulu and Tubby
30. Bugs Bunny Vacation Funnies
31. Turok
    Turok
    Turok is a fictional American comic book character initially in comics from Western Publishing published through licensee Dell Comics. He first appeared in Four Color Comics #596 , then graduated to his own title, Turok, Son of Stone...
    
    , plus stories from Dell Comics
    Dell Comics
    Dell Comics was the comic book publishing arm of Dell Publishing, which got its start in pulp magazines. It published comics from 1929 to 1973. At its peak, it was the most prominent and successful American company in the medium...
    
    ' "Indian Chief" title
32. Woody Woodpecker Summer Fun
33. Little Lulu and Tubby Halloween Fun (Doctor Spektor appear)
34. Bugs Bunny Winter Funnies
35. Tom and Jerry Snowtime Funtime
36. Little Lulu and her friends
37. Woody Woodpecker Country Fair
38. Pink Panther
    The Pink Panther (character)
    The Pink Panther is the main and title character in the opening and closing credit sequences of every film in The Pink Panther series except for A Shot in the Dark and Inspector Clouseau. His popularity spawned a series of theatrical shorts, merchandise, a comic book, and television cartoons...
    
    
39. Bugs Bunny Summer Fun
40. Little Lulu and Tubby Trick or Treat
41. Tom and Jerry Winter Carnival
42. Bugs Bunny
43. Little Lulu in Paris
44. Woody Woodpecker Family Fun Festival
45. Pink Panther
46. Little Lulu and Tubby
47. Bugs Bunny
48. The Lone Ranger

External links

• former Western Publishing scripter Mark Evanier's comments on the Gold Key digests and their eventual demise