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Issue Details

Issue #197
Published March 1958
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?

Cover Details

Characters Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd
Genre funny animal

1 page Bugs Bunny story "High Electric Bill"

Characters Bugs Bunny
Synopsis Outraged by a high ($15) electric bill, Bugs has his power disconnected and uses a miner's cap for light.
Genre funny animal
Notes Inside front cover; black and white.

10 page Bugs Bunny story "The Dancing Doodlebugs"

Characters Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd
Synopsis Elmer has a job caring for the "Dancing Doodlebugs" of entertainer Prof. Beetle.
Genre funny animal

6 page Porky Pig story "The Tom Sawyer trick"

Characters Porky Pig; Cicero Pig; Beaky Buzzard; Elmer Fudd; Bugs Bunny; Petunia Pig
Synopsis Porky uses a variation of the "Tom Sawyer white-washing a fence" trick to get his yard cleaned up; but things get out of hand.
Genre funny animal

5 page Tweety and Sylvester story "Sylvester has insomnia"

Characters Tweety; Sylvester
Synopsis Sylvester comes to the park to try to cure his insomnia.
Genre funny animal
Pencils Harvey Eisenberg
Inks Harvey Eisenberg?

1 page [Daffy Duck] text story "Cookbook Calamity"

Characters Daffy Duck; Elmer Fudd
Synopsis Elmer hires Daffy to cook a dinner for ten guests; but Daffy can't resist eating the food he prepares.
Genre funny animal
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with one 1/4 page illustration.

4 page Mary Jane and Sniffles story "The Dizzy Prairie Dogs"

Characters Mary Jane; Sniffles; Mary Jane's mother; Mary Jane's father
Synopsis While on a trip to her Aunt Betty's ranch, Mary Jane and Sniffles have to solve the mystery of the dizzy prairie dog children.
Genre fantasy; funny animal; children
Pencils Al Hubbard
Inks Al Hubbard

5 page Daffy Duck story "The Butterfly Suit"

Characters Daffy Duck; Elmer Fudd
Synopsis Elmer is wearing a butterfly suit in order to win a costume contest. Daffy comes up with the idea of making a giant loaf of bread for Elmer to wear. Daffy wears the butterfly suit to the contest and you can guess what happens.
Genre funny animal

Half page Bugs Bunny Baffler and Banter activity Instead of bullets, Elmer's gun is shooting..."

Characters Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd
Genre funny animal
Notes A one-panel drawing which requires solving a rebus to get the dialogue.

Half page Daffy Questions activity "When you lose something"

Characters Daffy Duck
Genre funny animal
Notes Five one-panel riddles with the answers printed upside-down at the bottom of each panel.

1 page Petunia story "Masquerade Party"

Characters Petunia Pig; Bugs Bunny (cameo); Yosemite Sam (cameo)
Synopsis Petunia gets a shock when her dancing partner at a costume party unmasks.
Genre funny animal
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents."

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "An amazing plant...Jack and the Beanstalk!"

Characters Bugs Bunny
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover, color. Promo for subscriptions to Looney Tunes comics. Rate is $1.50 for 12 issues with premium of "Jack and the Beanstalk Plant". Promo includes Dell's "A Pledge to Parents."