(January 1942)
Dell,
1941 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1941-11-29
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Company Inc.
- Brand
-
L & M Comics
- Editing
- Eleanor Packer
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 1.
[no title indexed]
comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hi Elmer, what's cookin'?
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd; Sniffles; Petunia Pig; Porky Pig; Kandi; Kandi's pet dinosaur
- Synopsis
- Introducing Kandi
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover, printed in black and red. Art identification by historian David Gerstein.
[no title indexed]
Porky Pig / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- W-won't Petunia be surprised when I show her how g-good I can h-hypnotize!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Porky Pig; Bugs Bunny; Petunia Pig; "Butch" Hound, a car thief
- Synopsis
- Porky thinks he can hypnotize, and Petunia saves the day with her homebaked cake.
Indexer Notes
Art identification by historian David Gerstein.
[no title indexed]
Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh boy! Pay day! I sure have to work hard for my money, but it's worth it!
- Feature Logo
- Elmer
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Elmer Fudd; Bugs Bunny
- Synopsis
- Disguised as a swami, Bugs tricks Elmer into wasting all of his pay
Indexer Notes
Art identification by historian David Gerstein.
[no title indexed]
Kandi the Cave Kid / comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The scene is back in the stone-age
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Kandi; Kandi's mother; Katchoo, Kandi's brother; Kurli, Kandi's other brother; a flying lizard; a dinosaur; a sabre tooth tiger; an elephant; a mouse; Kandi's father; a flock of tree men
- Synopsis
- Kandi makes friends with the savage animals, and together they scare fierce tree men away from attacking Kandi's family
Indexer Notes
Racial stereotypes: the tree men look like monkeys
[no title indexed]
Mary Jane and Sniffles / comic story / 9 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You may now put away your arithmetic books, children!
- Feature Logo
- Sniffles and Mary Jane
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; fantasy-supernatural; humor
- Characters
- Mary Jane; Mary Jane's school teacher; Sniffles; Bugs Bunny; Tommy Turtle; a flying fish
- Synopsis
- Mary Jane and Sniffles seek information on Columbus, and end up beneath the sea with a school of fish
Indexer Notes
Art identification by historian David Gerstein.
[no title indexed]
Bugs Bunny / comic story / 9 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Serve him another side dish of carrots, stewart!
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Bugs Bunny; Admiral Pupp; enemy naval officers
- Synopsis
- Bugs singlehandedly captures the officers of an enemy vessel
Indexer Notes
Heavy war reference; art identification by historian David Gerstein.
Petunia Plays Detective
Petunia Pig / text story / 3 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Petunia Pig; Porky Pig
[Inky and the Lion]
Inky / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Inky; a black crow; a lion
Indexer Notes
Comic story with heavy use of explanatory text
This story stars the Warner Bros. character Inki, who first appeared in the cartoon short "The Little Lion Hunter" in 1939. His name is misspelled "Inky" in this comic.
This is the only comics story featuring Inki.
[no title indexed]
Pat, Patsy and Pete / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- C'mon Pete!! While the ship is waiting for the tide, we're going to try out a new type diving helmet!!
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; adventure; children
- Characters
- Pat; Patsy; Pete [a penguin]; Davy Jones; Neptune's daughter; Neptune
- Synopsis
- The protagonists go searching for treasure at the bottom of the sea
[no title indexed]
Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- How do you like my new house? I designed it an' built it myself, and it's positively mouse pwoof!
- Feature Logo
- Elmer
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Elmer Fudd; Bugs Bunny; two fieldmice
- Synopsis
- Bugs leads Elmer to think that rabbits are the best mouse catchers in the world
[no title indexed]
Porky's Hollywood Sketch Book / text article / 2 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Porky Pig; Gloria Jean; Basil Rathbone; Baby Sandy; Richard Nichols; Betty Jean; Darla Hood; Mickey Rooney; Jane Withers; Darryl Hickman; Ann Todd; Dickey Hall; Asta, dog actor in the "Thin Man" movie series; Stan Laurel; Oliver Hardy; Petunia Pig
[no title indexed]
activity / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In this picture the artist has made 14 mistakes
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Elmer Fudd; Porky Pig; Bugs Bunny; Sniffles
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover. Printed in black and red. Walt Kelly credits very uncertain
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Bugs Bunny; Porky Pig -
1.
["Hi Elmer, what's cookin'?"]
-
2.
["W-won't Petunia be surprised when I show her how g-good I can h-hypnotize!"]
Porky Pig -
3.
["Oh boy! Pay day! I sure have to work hard for my money, but it's worth it!"]
Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd -
4.
["The scene is back in the stone-age"]
Kandi the Cave Kid -
5.
["You may now put away your arithmetic books, children!"]
Mary Jane and Sniffles -
6.
["Serve him another side dish of carrots, stewart!"]
Bugs Bunny -
7.
Petunia Plays Detective
Petunia Pig -
8.
[Inky and the Lion]
Inky -
9.
["C'mon Pete!! While the ship is waiting for the tide, we're going to try out a new type diving helmet!!"]
Pat, Patsy and Pete -
10.
["How do you like my new house? I designed it an' built it myself, and it's positively mouse pwoof!"]
Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd -
11.
[no title indexed]
Porky's Hollywood Sketch Book -
12.
["In this picture the artist has made 14 mistakes"]
-
13.
Special Announcement!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Dana Gabbard (R.I.P.)
- Del Gruber
- Clint Maxwell
- Dave Porta
- Claus Simonsen
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