Boys' and Girls' March of Comics #315 [Kool-Aid]

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

blank page(s) / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

The "Kool-Aid Variant" runs an ad on this page.

Abominable Bunny (Table of Contents: 2)

Bugs Bunny / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script

Don R. Christensen

Pencils

John Carey

Inks

John Carey

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

John Carey

First Line of Dialogue or Text

(Chomp!) (Yawn!) How's fishing, Porky?

Feature Logo

Bugs Bunny [Western Logo 2 Horseshoe-Like Letters]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Bugs Bunny; Porky Pig; wild mountain trading bunny; Ralph (camper); Mabel (camper); sheepish TV trader

Synopsis

In a mountainous wooded area, a wild unkempt bunny of the mountains is "trading" ordinary forest objects such as pine cones for campers' equipment and food. The campers believe their possessions were stolen by a slim, shadowy figure with long ears. Being a bunny, Bugs fits the general description and is branded a thief.

Reprints

• in Golden Comics Digest (Western, 1969 series) #39 (September 1974)
• in Boys' and Girls' March of Comics (Western, 1946 series) #428 ([April] 1977), #487 (March 1982)

Keywords

camping; forest setting; mountains; puzzlement; theft; trade; wild bunny

Indexer Notes

Three tiers per page.

Bugs' and Porky's Easter Egg Puzzler (Table of Contents: 3)

Bugs Bunny / activity / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Tony Strobl

Inks

Steve Steere

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

typeset

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Bugs Bunny; Porky Pig

Synopsis

Help Bugs and Porky solve a crossword puzzle in the form of a giant Easter egg.

Reprints

• in Boys' and Girls' March of Comics (Western, 1946 series) #428 ([April] 1977), #487 (March 1982)

Keywords

crossword puzzle; Easter egg

Help Bugs Color (Table of Contents: 4)

Bugs Bunny / activity / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Tony Strobl

Inks

Steve Steere

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Bugs is helping the Easter Bunny. Help Bugs color the eggs, then you can color the rest of the picture.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Bugs Bunny

Synopsis

A black and white drawing of Bugs Bunny painting Easter eggs, ready for coloring.

Reprints

• in Boys' and Girls' March of Comics (Western, 1946 series) #428 ([April] 1977), #487 (March 1982)

Keywords

coloring; Easter eggs; notable coloring modification

Indexer Notes

The original version in March of Comics #315 (1968) has the "header portion" of the illustration, containing the title and text, in color. For the reprint version in March of Comics #487 (1982), the entire page in is black and white.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

blank page(s) / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover.

The "Kool-Aid Variant" runs an ad on this page.

[Jack and Rabbit] (Table of Contents: 6)

Bugs Bunny / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Ralph Heimdahl

Inks

Ralph Heimdahl

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

typeset

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Bugs Bunny

Synopsis

Bugs relaxes with the Easter egg jack-in-the-box, after a hard day of scaring folks.

Keywords

Easter egg; jack-in-the-box

Indexer Notes

Theme continues from front cover illustration. Illustration shares back cover space with logo and ad copy for whichever firm is distributing the issue as a giveaway premium. Illustration comprises top third of page, lower two thirds can be blank if no named sponsor.

The "Kool-Aid Variant" runs an ad on lower two thirds of this back cover.