(February 1953)
Dell,
1950 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Dell Comic
- Editing
- Chase Craig (editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
[Game of Pool]
Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Ralph Heimdahl
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
Eleven Fun-Packed Ways to Enjoy Walt Disney's Peter Pan
advertisement / 1 page
- Characters
- Peter Pan
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; color; illustrated ad for 11 Whitman products (coloring books, story books, etc.) featuring Walt Disney's Peter Pan.
[New Year's Resolutions]
Bugs Bunny / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- During the New Year, I hearby wesolve...
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- 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.
Indexer Notes
Story listed as New Year's Resolutions in Christensen's notes.
[no title indexed]
Porky Pig / comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hi Porky! Hi, Petunia! Oh, Boy! You'll like the picture!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- 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.
Indexer 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.
[no title indexed]
Mary Jane and Sniffles / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- ...and five more makes it exactly two hundred dollars!
- Genre
- humor; children; fantasy-supernatural; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- 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.
[I won't, I won't, I won't, I won't...."]
Henery Hawk / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Henery Hawk; Ollie Owl; Ozzie Ostrich
- Synopsis
- Ollie bets Henery that he can't refrain from chasing chickens for eight hours.
Little Sleuths
Cicero Pig / text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Cicero Pig; Freddy Porker
- Synopsis
- Cicero and his friend Freddy think that crooks are living in the basement of an empty house.
Indexer Notes
Text story with two 1/3 page illustrations.
[no title indexed]
Daffy Duck; Elmer Fudd / comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The Mayor of our city will be out today to award...
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- 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.
[no title indexed]
Tweety and Sylvester / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- My, isn't this nice? I just know we're going to...
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- 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.
[no title indexed]
Little Pancho Vanilla / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Happy Birthdays, Pancho! Here ees a present!
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Pancho Vanilla; Papacito; Ramon
- 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.
[no title indexed]
Bugs Bunny Bafflers / activity / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gettin' impatient, chum?
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Bugs Bunny; Porky Pig
Indexer Notes
Two riddles in strip form, with the answers in upside-down panels.
Big News
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- 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)
Indexer 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.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[Game of Pool]
Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd -
1.
Eleven Fun-Packed Ways to Enjoy Walt Disney's Peter Pan
-
2.
[New Year's Resolutions]
Bugs Bunny -
3.
["Hi Porky! Hi, Petunia! Oh, Boy! You'll like the picture!"]
Porky Pig -
4.
["...and five more makes it exactly two hundred dollars!"]
Mary Jane and Sniffles -
5.
[I won't, I won't, I won't, I won't...."]
Henery Hawk -
6.
Little Sleuths
Cicero Pig -
7.
["The Mayor of our city will be out today to award..."]
Daffy Duck; Elmer Fudd -
8.
["My, isn't this nice? I just know we're going to..."]
Tweety and Sylvester -
9.
["Happy Birthdays, Pancho! Here ees a present!"]
Little Pancho Vanilla -
10.
["Gettin' impatient, chum?"]
Bugs Bunny Bafflers -
11.
Big News
-
12.
George Mikan Sparks in Backboard Battle
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Alberto Becattini
- Dwayne Best
- Chris Boyko
- Merlin Haas
- Dan Kocher
- Clint Maxwell
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
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