Looney Tunes
#240
(October 1961)
Dell,
1955 Series
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1961-08-17
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Dell [stamp]
- Editing
- Chase Craig (editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1961 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
[Elastic Band Race]
Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd; Porky Pig / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; sports; humor
- Characters
- Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd; Porky Pig
- Reprints
-
in Bugs Bunny (Western, 1962 series) #142 (May 1972) which is reprinted
-
- Keywords
- footracing; slingshots; starters' pistols; stopwatches
in 
A Battle of Wits
Bugs Bunny; Pepé Le Pew / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; science fiction; humor
- Characters
- Bugs Bunny; Pepe Le Pew; Yosemite Sam
- Synopsis
- Pepe Le Pew makes himself an unwanted guest in Bugs' home. After Pepe is tossed out, he stumbles across a flying saucer with "super-rabbits from Mars."
Indexer Notes
Story listed as Polecat Pest in Christensen's notes
Prize-Winning Pop-Up
Porky Pig / text story / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Porky Pig; Petunia Pig; Cicero Pig
- Synopsis
- Petunia wants Porky to enter the ice-skating contest at the new ice rink.
- Reprints
- in Bugs Bunny (Western, 1962 series) #141 (March 1972)
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with one 1/4 page illustration.
Dishing It Out
Daffy Duck / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Daffy Duck; Foghorn Leghorn
- Synopsis
- Daffy tries to get a free lunch at Foghorn's diner.
Head Spread
Elmer Fudd; Porky Pig / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Porky Pig; Cicero Pig; Elmer Fudd
- Synopsis
- Elmer becomes a snob after getting a job in the banking business. Porky plays a trick on him to show that he's getting a swelled head.
Beeping and Weeping
Beep Beep the Road Runner / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Beep Beep; Wile E. Coyote; Beep Beep's four sons
- Synopsis
- Wile E. tricks Beep Beep into delivering a telegram to a cave where he is waiting.
- Reprints
- in Beep Beep the Road Runner (Western, 1966 series) #45 (September 1974)
-
Indexer Notes
Beep Beep and his sons speak in rhyme.
A Dweam Come Twue
Tweety and Sylvester / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Tweety; Sylvester
- Synopsis
- Tweety tries to convince Sylvester that a trade rat is taking their possessions.
Sudden Shower
Daffy Duck / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Daffy Duck; Elmer Fudd
- Synopsis
- After flying through a rain cloud, Daffy gives Elmer an unexpected shower.
Indexer Notes
Pantomime story.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[Elastic Band Race]
Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd; Porky Pig -
1.
Yogi Bear Milk Mug and Huck Hound Cereal Bowl
-
2.
A Battle of Wits
Bugs Bunny; Pepé Le Pew -
3.
Color This Picture and You Can Win...
-
4.
Prize-Winning Pop-Up
Porky Pig -
5.
Dishing It Out
Daffy Duck -
6.
Dell Trading Post
-
7.
Head Spread
Elmer Fudd; Porky Pig -
8.
Beeping and Weeping
Beep Beep the Road Runner -
9.
A Dweam Come Twue
Tweety and Sylvester -
10.
Sudden Shower
Daffy Duck -
11.
["Boys like a shoe that's tough and strong like me..."]
-
12.
If You Know Just 20 People...
-
13.
Schwinn American
This issue was modified by, among others
- Alberto Becattini
- Dwayne Best
- Chris Boyko
- Steve Coates
- Merlin Haas
- Clint Maxwell
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are
copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.