Issue | #136 |
Published | February 1953 |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 52 |
Editing | ? |
Characters | Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd |
Genre | funny animal |
Letters | typeset |
Characters | Peter Pan |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Inside front cover; color; illustrated ad for 11 Whitman products (coloring books, story books, etc.) featuring Walt Disney's Peter Pan. |
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 |
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. |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Text story with two 1/3 page illustrations. |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Characters | Bugs Bunny; Porky Pig |
Genre | funny animal |
Notes | Two riddles in strip form, with the answers in upside-down panels. |
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) |
Letters | typeset |
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. |
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. |