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Issue Details

Issue #136
Published February 1953
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
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Cover Details

Characters Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd
Genre funny animal
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1 page advertisement "Eleven fun-packed ways to enjoy Walt Disney's Peter Pan"

Characters Peter Pan
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Notes Inside front cover; color; illustrated ad for 11 Whitman products (coloring books, story books, etc.) featuring Walt Disney's Peter Pan.

10 page Bugs Bunny story "During the New Year, I hearby wesolve..."

Characters Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd; Porky Pig; Yosemite Sam; Cicero Pig
Synopsis Bugs tricks Elmer and Yosemite Sam into signing New Year's resolutions not to lose their tempers. There is a penalty of $1 to be paid to Bugs for every blow struck in anger.
Genre funny animal

7 page Porky Pig story Hi Porky! Hi, Petunia! Oh, Boy! You'll like the picture!"

Characters Porky Pig; Petunia Pig; Cicero Pig; Bugs Bunny.
Synopsis Cicero allows Indians from a travelling Wild West show to camp in their back yard in exchange for helping him make Porky a hero in Petunia's eyes. Things don't work out according to plan.
Genre funny animal
Notes A western movie hero in the story is named "Perry Gorick." This is a pun on the word "paregoric," which was a tincture of opium used to relieve pain in the 19th Century.

6 page Mary Jane and Sniffles story "...and five more makes it exactly two hundred dollars!"

Characters Mary Jane; Sniffles; Penelope "Penny" Pig; Cap'n Kidd Cricket
Synopsis Cap'n Kidd Cricket is on the trail of Mary Jane's piggy bank (Penelope Pig) who is stuffed full of money.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Al Hubbard

6 page Henery Hawk story I won't, I won't, I won't, I won't...."

Characters Henery Hawk; Ollie Owl; Ozzie Ostrich
Synopsis Ollie bets Henery that he can't refrain from chasing chickens for eight hours.
Genre funny animal
Pencils Veve Risto
Inks Veve Risto

2 page [Cicero Pig] text story "Little Sleuths"

Characters Cicero Pig; Freddy Porker
Synopsis Cicero and his friend Freddy think that crooks are living in the basement of an empty house.
Genre funny animal
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Notes Text story with two 1/3 page illustrations.

7 page Elmer Fudd and Daffy story "The Mayor of our city will be out today to award..."

Characters Elmer Fudd; Daffy Duck
Synopsis Daffy helps rescue Elmer's canary from the roof; then poses as a singing teacher to help the canary regain its singing voice.
Genre funny animal

5 page Tweety and Sylvester story "My, isn't this nice? I just know we're going to..."

Characters Tweety; Sylvester; Granny
Synopsis Tweety and Granny are on a winter-time Alaskan vacation. Sylvester is also on the scene, looking for buried gold.
Genre funny animal

4 page Little Pancho Vanilla story "Happy Birthdays, Pancho! Here ees a present!"

Characters Pancho Vanilla; Papacito
Synopsis It's Pancho Vanilla's birthday and his father wants to be the first to play the "pin the tail on the bull [donkey]" game at his party.
Genre children

1 page Bugs Bunny Bafflers activity ["Gettin' impatient, chum?"

Characters Bugs Bunny; Porky Pig
Genre funny animal
Notes Two riddles in strip form, with the answers in upside-down panels.

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Big News"

Characters Bugs Bunny (cameo); Elmer Fudd (cameo); Lone Ranger (cameo); Little Lulu (cameo); Tom (of Tom & Jerry) (cameo); The Lone Ranger (cameo); Tarzan (cameo); Andy Panda (cameo); Gene Autry (cameo)
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Notes Inside back cover; color. Promo for subscriptions to Dell comics. One-year subscriptions to five different titles for $4.00 plus premium of giant pinup of the "Dell family" characters and a membership to the Dell Comics Club. Titles available are Tom & Jerry, Roy Rogers, New Funnies, Looney Tunes, Tarzan, Gene Autry, Lone Ranger, and Little Lulu.

1 page advertisement "George Mikan sparks in Backboard Battle"

Characters George Mikan
Genre sports
Notes Back cover. Ad in comic form for Wheaties breakfast cereal featuring pro basketball player George Mikan of the Minneapolis Lakers. One of the "What sparks a champion sparks you!" series.