(1978)
Pioneer Take Out Corporation,
1978 Series
Published in English
(United States)
- Price
- 0.00 FREE
- Pages
- 20
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Pioneer Take Out
- Editing
- ?
- Color
- color
- Dimensions
- standard Modern Age U.S.
- Paper Stock
- glossy cover; newsprint interior
- Binding
- saddle-stitched
- Publishing Format
- one-shot; giveaway
Issue Notes
Created and produced for distribution by Pioneer Take Out 1978.
The cover lists 15 cents but it is crossed out with the words, Free to Our Guests.
The cover lists 15 cents but it is crossed out with the words, Free to Our Guests.
Reaching for the Stars
Pioneers of Yesteryear / cartoon / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Pioneer Pete; Laggin' Dragon
- Synopsis
- A listing of factoids about the pioneering development of flight.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
Outer Space "Take Out"
Adventures of Pioneer Pete and His Pals / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Chicken always guarantees a great outing, but this time...
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; science fiction
- Characters
- Pioneer Pete; Laggin' Dragon; Honey Bun; Squeeker; Mod Cod; Wonder Chicken; the Marzons
- Synopsis
- Pioneer Pete's chicken is being transported to outer space & he is being paid with Marzo money which is worthless on Earth. They build a spacecraft and attach buckets of chicken which is enough to send them to the planet Marzo when the chicken is being transported. They arrive on Marzo and the Marzons decide to keep Pete so he can make chicken for them. Pete is introduced to the computer that feeds everyone bland food, instead, he programs it to make chicken, though not as good as his, is better than anything they had before. Using their brainpower, the Marzons send everyone back to Earth.
Marzo Maze
activity / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Can you help Pioneer Pete find the safe trail to the Space Station?
- Characters
- Mod Cod; Honey Bun; Pioneer Pete
Indexer Notes
A maze where you have to spell in order P-I-O-N-E-E-R P-E-T-E in order to complete it.
Some Tricky Tricks
activity / 0.5 page
- Characters
- Pioneer Pete; Honey Bun
Indexer Notes
Tricks to fool your friends with.
Sheriff Showdown
Pioneer Pete / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; western-frontier
- Characters
- Pioneer Pete; Honey Bun; Mod Cod; Squeeker; Butch Coyote; unnamed wizard; Pa Strami; Dunce Kid; unnamed cowboy
- Synopsis
- Butch Coyote comes into town and snips one leg off of every chair he sees. Pete, now the Sheriff, tricks Butch into wearing his chief's hat. Coyote gets covered in a flour mix and Honey Bun pours water on him, freezing into place. Everyone then covers Coyote in his wanted posters. Learning his lesson Coyote promises to never be a rascal again. As for all the three-legged chairs, Pete cuts off the other legs and makes them all lounge chairs.
A P's Treaty
activity / 1 page
- Characters
- Honey Bun; Pioneer Pete
Indexer Notes
A word puzzle to find all the items in the puzzle drawing that begins with the letter P.
Puzzle Fun
activity / 1 page
- Characters
- Pioneer Pete
Indexer Notes
Multiple puzzles with answers at bottom of the page.
Blunder Bust
Pioneer Pete / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Haw haw! Don't even think of putting him on your Great-Guys totem pole!
- Genre
- humor; western-frontier
- Characters
- Pioneer Pete; Major Blunder (from Kentucky); unnamed frontiersmen; unnamed Native American
- Synopsis
- Major Blunder doesn't think Pioneer Pete should be carved on the Great-Guys totem pole. As he begins to explain why he should be on it, Blunder falls into a river. Pete gets carved onto the totem pole and also made the new chief. Blunder laments that on some days it doesn't pay to leave Kentucky.
Indexer Notes
Major Blunder is clearly a send-up of Kentucky Fried Chicken's Colonel Sauders.
Editing
Related Scans
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Adventures of Pioneer Pete and His Pals -
1.
Reaching for the Stars
Pioneers of Yesteryear -
2.
Outer Space "Take Out"
Adventures of Pioneer Pete and His Pals -
3.
Marzo Maze
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4.
Some Tricky Tricks
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5.
Sheriff Showdown
Pioneer Pete -
6.
A P's Treaty
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7.
Puzzle Fun
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8.
Blunder Bust
Pioneer Pete -
9.
["Hey Kids It's Free"]
Pioneer Pete's Wagon Train Club -
10.
Compliments of the Home of Famous Golden Pioneer Chicken
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
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