Bugs Bunny #101

(September 1965)

There Are Giants At Your Comics Dealer (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Gold Key Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

The Rocketing Radish (Table of Contents: 2)

Bugs Bunny / comic story / 18 pages (report information)

Script

Don R. Christensen

Pencils

Tony Strobl

Inks

Tony Strobl

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Tony Strobl

Job Number

B. B. #101-657

First Line of Dialogue or Text

...And then the fella opens up his collapsible space cruiser, and he zips up to Mars... oh, brother! Talk about fantastic!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; science fiction; humor

Characters

Bugs Bunny; Porky Pig; editor of "Future Comics"; artist of "Future Comics"; rocket ship thief; various members of the rocket ship research facility; various members of the space police

Synopsis

Comic book fan Bugs is consumed with curiosity about "...how these comic book drawers know how things are gonna be five hundred years from now". He and Porky pay a visit to the offices of "Future Comics" and meet an artist who has discovered a "window to the future", and who simply adapts what he sees through said window to his comics. Impulsive Bugs and a reluctant Porky slip through the window and become involved with the theft of an experimental compact rocket ship called "The Rocketing Radish".

Reprints

• from Bugs Bunny (Dell, 1952 series) #31 (June-July 1953)

Keywords

abounding oddities; comic book creators; comic book industry; comic books; future setting; meta humor; outer space setting; rocket ship; theft

Indexer Notes

"Reprinted by popular demand".

In the original printing, Bugs referred to the year as being "1953". For this reprint, the year has been updated to "1965".

A rare-for-the-time "meta-type" comic book story about the comic book industry, and the type of comics prevalent in the 1940s - mid-1950s with titles like "Future Comics" and "Terrific Comics".

Per the story, comic books are alive, well, and still quite popular in this particular version of the future, as evidenced by a number of (literal) "rocket scientists" seated on a bench reading a stack of them.

Nice Little Touches: In the future, "Future Comics" has been renamed "Future Future Comics", and a future woodpecker has a rotating drill bit for a beak.

At the (present day) offices of "Future Comics", Bugs and Porky are advised by the editor to "follow the doodles on the walls" to reach the artist's area - and, sure enough, copious doodles line the corridors and stairwells leading the pair to their destination. Can those many, many doodles mean that famed "margin-doodler" Sergio Aragonés may have roamed those halls?

[Lumberjack Bullwinkle] (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

General Mills; Cheerios; Rocky and Bullwinkle / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

How's Trix? (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

General Mills Trix; Trix Rabbit / comics-form advertising / 0.75 page (report information)

You Get More Adventure and Action (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

Gold Key Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.25 page (report information)

The Big Chase (Table of Contents: 6)

Tweety and Sylvester / text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Phil De Lara

Inks

Phil De Lara

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Sylvester was at it again, chasing Tweety.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tweety Bird; Sylvester Pussycat; Granny; lots of mice

Synopsis

In order to help Sylvester keep his home, Tweety gathers some mice for him to catch and prove his usefulness. Unfortunately, Tweety gathers too many mice for Sylvester to handle.

Reprints

• in Bugs Bunny (Western, 1962 series) #178 (November 1976)

Keywords

best of intentions; bird; cat; mice

Indexer Notes

New story.

The Messy Messenger (Table of Contents: 7)

Daffy Duck / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Vic Lockman

Pencils

Phil De Lara

Inks

Phil De Lara

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Rome Siemon

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hi, Daniel Duck!

Feature Logo

Daffy Duck [Western (Gold Key) Interior 1 Lower Case]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Daffy Duck; Daniel Duck; other working ducks; employment agent; two bike messengers; messenger service dispatcher; Mr. Deflop (artist); guy eating hot dog; pedestrian; managers of the "Dainty Wallpaper Company"

Synopsis

Serious working ducks look down upon Daffy for being a "lazy loafer". Daffy takes their disdain to heart, and joins a bike messenger service with the advantage of being able to fly.

Keywords

doing-something-their-own-way; getting-a-job; messenger service; series of mishaps

Indexer Notes

New story.

[Binky Bunny's Visit] (Table of Contents: 8)

Bugs Bunny / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Don R. Christensen

Pencils

Phil De Lara

Inks

Phil De Lara

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Phil De Lara

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Porky! Porky! What do y'know!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Bugs Bunny; Binky Bunny (Bugs' nephew); Porky Pig; Elmer Fudd; Daffy Duck

Synopsis

Bugs' aggressively enthusiastic little nephew Binky Bunny comes to visit, with his head full of the notions Uncle Bugs has fed the tyke in his letters - brave, handsome, clever, a master heckler, etc. Can Bugs live up to his own hype? ...And, to make matters worse for Bugs, Elmer Fudd just happens to have one of his better and more effective nights as a rabbit router.

Reprints

• from Bugs Bunny (Dell, 1952 series) #32 (August-September 1953)

Keywords

exaggerating one’s importance; heckling; impressionable kid; nephew; visiting relatives; wrong impression

Indexer Notes

"Reprinted by popular demand".

100 Little Dolls All for $1.00 (Table of Contents: 9) (Expand) /

The 100 Doll Co. / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

A Laugh a Minute with The Cuckoo Bird! (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

General Mills; Cocoa Puffs; The Cuckoo Bird / comics-form advertising / 0.5 page (report information)

Boys, Girls, Men, Women (Table of Contents: 11) (Expand) /

Wallace Brown, Inc. / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Nationally Famous Prizes at No Cost to You! (Table of Contents: 12) (Expand) /

Junior Sales Club of America / advertisement / 1 page (report information)