([December] 1998)

DC, 1998 Series
Published in English (United States) United States
 
Price
14.95 USD; 23.50 CAD
Pages
164
On-sale Date
1998-10-21
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics
Brand
DC [bullet]
ISBN
1-56389-458-0 Search at WorldCat
Barcode
761941215198 00111
Editing
Bob Kahan (editor-collected editions); Rick Taylor (editor-collected edition)
Color
Color
Dimensions
Standard Modern Age U. S.
Binding
Squarebound Trade Paperback
Publishing Format
One-Shot; Collected Edition

A Comic Celebration (Table of Contents)

Bugs Bunny / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Walter Carzon (signed)
Inks
Rubén Torreiro
Colors
Dave Tanguay

Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters
Bugs Bunny; Porky Pig; Petunia Pig; Henery Hawk; Sniffles; Wile E. Coyote; Beep Beep; Elmer Fudd; Daffy Duck; Tweety; Sylvester; Beaky Buzzard; Crusher; Granny; Marc Antony; Yosemite Sam; Tasmanian Devil

[Blank Pages] (Table of Contents: 1)

blank page(s) / 3 pages (report information)


Indexer Notes

Inside front cover, inside back cover, and last interior page are blank.

Bugs Bunny and Friends: A Comic Celebration (Table of Contents: 2)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?

Characters
Bugs Bunny; Tweety; Sylvester

Indexer Notes

Title page. The same illustration is used as part of the back cover.

[Credits] (Table of Contents: 3)

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Characters
Elmer Fudd

Indexer Notes

Credits and copyright information.

Table of Contents (Table of Contents: 4)

table of contents / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Characters
Bugs Bunny

Indexer Notes

Table of contents with two illustrations.

Introduction (Table of Contents: 5)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 3 pages (report information)

Script
Mark Evanier (signed)
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Characters
Tweety; Sylvester; Daffy Duck; Tasmanian Devil; Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd; Wile E. Coyote

Indexer Notes

Introduction with illustrations.

Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies #1 cover (Table of Contents: 6)

Bugs Bunny; Porky Pig / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Bugs Bunny; Porky Pig; Elmer Fudd (cameo); Petunia Pig (cameo); Daffy Duck (cameo); Sniffles (cameo)
Reprints

The Wild Hare (Table of Contents: 7)

Bugs Bunny / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Chase Craig
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters
Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd
Synopsis
Elmer goes hunting and has to deal with a screwy rabbit.
Reprints
Keywords
hunting

Indexer Notes

Basically a scene by scene adaptation of the 1940 Warner Bros. cartoon, "A Wild Hare," the first Bugs Bunny cartoon.

[Origin of the Magic Sand] (Table of Contents: 8)

Sniffles / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Chase Craig
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Sniffles; Mary Jane (intro)
Synopsis
Sniffles meets Mary Jane for the first time. He goes to the Sandman's storeroom to get some sand to allow Mary Jane to sleep, but picks up "sand for mice" which has the effect of shrinking Mary Jane to his size.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Origin of the magic sand Mary Jane uses to shrink.

[Grocery Delivery Boy] (Table of Contents: 9)

Beaky Buzzard / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Veve Risto
Inks
Veve Risto
Colors
?
Letters
Veve Risto

Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Beaky Buzzard; Bugs Bunny; Petunia Pig; Porky Pig (cameo)
Synopsis
Beaky is a bumbling employee at a grocery store.
Reprints
Keywords
delivery; eggs; grocery; stork

[Catching a Duck] (Table of Contents: 10)

Henery Hawk / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Veve Risto
Inks
Veve Risto
Colors
?
Letters
Veve Risto

Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters
Henery Hawk
Synopsis
Henery brags that he can catch ducks as well as chickens, but ends up stranded on a duck decoy.
Reprints
Keywords
decoy; duck hunting

Indexer Notes

Features Daffy Duck look-alike, who doesn't speak.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 11)

Elmer Fudd and Daffy / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Phil De Lara
Inks
Phil De Lara
Colors
?
Letters
?
Editing
Chase Craig (original editor)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
(Mumble, mumble) and so, when the ugly duckling...
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Daffy Duck; Elmer Fudd
Synopsis
After reading the story about the ugly duckling, Daffy goes to Elmer's beauty salon for beauty treatments.
Reprints
Keywords
beauty shop; ugly duckling

[Goldie Goldfish] (Table of Contents: 12)

Mary Jane and Sniffles / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Tony Strobl
Inks
Tony Strobl
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
fantasy-supernatural; humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Mary Jane; Sniffles; Goldie Goldfish; Minnie Minnow; Lobster the Mobster; Mark the Loan Shark
Synopsis
When Goldie the goldfish goes down the drain, Mary Jane and Sniffles follow her to the ocean to bring her back.
Reprints
Keywords
flying fish; goldfish; sawfish; sea horses; shark

Indexer Notes

Table of contents erroneously credits art to Al Hubbard.

Porky of the Mounties (Table of Contents: 13)

Porky Pig / comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Script
Chase Craig
Pencils
Carl Barks
Inks
Carl Barks
Colors
?
Letters
Carl Barks

Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters
Porky Pig; Bugs Bunny; Petunia Pig; Uncle Ham; Dauntless; Pierre (villain)
Synopsis
Porky dresses as a Mountie for a party. He and Bugs accidentally get locked in a boxcar on a train headed for Canada. When they arrive, Porky is mistaken for Dauntless of the Mounties.
Reprints
Keywords
bears; Canada; Mounted Police; railroad

The Traveling Tree (Table of Contents: 14)

Bugs Bunny / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Don R. Christensen
Pencils
Tony Strobl
Inks
Steve Steere
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters
Bugs Bunny; Hedgerow Huppy; Elmer Fudd; Bugs' three cousins
Synopsis
With the help of Hedgerow Huppy, the inventor, Bugs grows a Christmas tree-sized carrot. He runs out of decorations and finds that Huppy has a not-quite-perfected invention that makes sticky, long-lasting bubbles. Huppy mistakenly gives Bugs a tank of helium instead of compressed air and the helium-filled balloons on the carrot tree take it airborne. Elmer and Bugs have to track it down with a helicopter.
Reprints
Keywords
carrot; Christmas; helicopter; inventions

Prize Pet (Table of Contents: 15)

Daffy Duck / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Pete Alvarado
Inks
Steve Steere
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters
Daffy Duck; Yosemite Sam
Synopsis
Daffy wants Yosemite Sam to enter him in the unusual pet contest.
Reprints
Keywords
Christmas; pet contest

Indexer Notes

Store in background is named "McKimson's Emporium."

Fun on the Run (Table of Contents: 16)

Beep Beep the Road Runner / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Don R. Christensen
Pencils
Pete Alvarado
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters
Beep Beep; Wile E. Coyote; Beep Beep's sons
Synopsis
Wile E. rides an ostrich to try to catch the Beeps.
Reprints
Keywords
ostrich

Tweety and Sylvester (Table of Contents: 17)

The Tasmanian Devil and his Tasty Friends / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Pete Alvarado
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Tweety; Sylvester; Granny; Tasmanian Devil
Synopsis
When Granny leaves the house, Sylvester and the Tasmanian Devil fight over Tweety.
Reprints

Snooper in a Stupor (Table of Contents: 18)

Daffy Duck / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Mark Evanier
Pencils
Jack Manning
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
Bill Spicer
Editing
Chase Craig (original editor)

Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; detective-mystery; humor
Characters
Daffy Duck; Miss Drake; Alexander Drake; the Clam (villain); the Octopuss (villain); Weasel (villain)
Synopsis
Daffy is a detective dealing with Dick Tracy-ish villains.
Reprints
Keywords
detective; maps

Plane Daffy (Table of Contents: 19)

Tweety and Sylvester / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Mark Evanier
Pencils
Lee Holley
Inks
Lee Holley
Colors
?
Letters
Bill Spicer
Editing
Chase Craig (original editor)

Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Tweety; Sylvester; Daffy Duck
Synopsis
Daffy replaces Tweety when he goes on vacation. Sylvester follows Tweety on an airplane to Miami, but Daffy tags along to protect Tweety.
Reprints
Keywords
airplane; Miami; parachute

Romeo and Drooliet (Table of Contents: 20)

Daffy Duck / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Dana Kurtin
Pencils
Walter Carzon
Inks
Scott McRae
Colors
Jo Meugniot
Letters
Bob Pinaha
Editing
Katie Main (original editor)

Job Number
WB726
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters
Daffy Duck; Bugs Bunny; Tasmanian Devil
Synopsis
Daffy and Taz play Romeo and Juliet.
Reprints
Keywords
Romeo and Juliet; theater

Wise Quacker (Table of Contents: 21)

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

Script
David Cody Weiss
Pencils
David Álvarez
Inks
Mike DeCarlo
Colors
Prismacolor
Letters
John Costanza
Editing
Dana Kurtin (original editor)

Job Number
WB 1554
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters
Daffy Duck
Synopsis
Daffy tries to become a stand-up comedian.
Reprints
Keywords
comedian

Fwankentweety (Table of Contents: 22)

Tweety and Sylvester / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Dan Slott
Pencils
David Álvarez
Inks
Mike DeCarlo
Colors
Dave Tanguay
Letters
John Costanza

Job Number
WB 1543
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Tweety; Sylvester; Bugs Bunny (cameo); Elmer Fudd (cameo); Tasmanian Devil (cameo)
Synopsis
A spoof on the "Bride of Frankenstein" with Sylvester wedding a "Fwankentweety."
Reprints
Keywords
Bride of Frankenstein; mad scientist; mind exchange

Snow Way Out (Table of Contents: 23)

Wile E. Coyote / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Dan Slott
Pencils
David Álvarez
Inks
Mike DeCarlo
Colors
Bernie Mireault
Letters
John Costanza
Editing
Dana Kurtin (original editor)

Job Number
WB1557
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters
Wile E. Coyote; Beep Beep; Playboy Penguin
Synopsis
Wile E. gets knocked out by hitting a billboard and dreams he is in Antarctica chasing a penguin.
Reprints
Keywords
Antarctica; dream; penguin

Working Out the Bugs! (Table of Contents: 24)

Bugs Bunny / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Bill Matheny
Pencils
Pablo Zamboni
Inks
Rubén Torreiro
Colors
Jahrome Youngker
Letters
Daniel Griffo
Editing
Dana Kurtin (original editor)

Job Number
WB1430
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters
Bugs Bunny; Crusher
Synopsis
Crusher and Bugs compete in the Mr. Universally Muscle-Bound Contest.
Reprints
Keywords
barbells; contest; magnets; weight-lifting

Indexer Notes

Crusher is the wrestler from the 1951 Warner Bros. cartoon "Bunny Hugged."

75 Years Entertaining the World (Table of Contents: 25) (Expand) /

Warner Bros. / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 26) (Expand) /

Warner Bros. / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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Table of Contents
  1. 0. A Comic Celebration
    Bugs Bunny
  2. 1. [Blank Pages]
  3. 2. Bugs Bunny and Friends: A Comic Celebration
  4. 3. [Credits]
  5. 4. Table of Contents
  6. 5. Introduction
  7. 6. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies #1 cover
    Bugs Bunny; Porky Pig
  8. 7. The Wild Hare
    Bugs Bunny
  9. 8. [Origin of the Magic Sand]
    Sniffles
  10. 9. [Grocery Delivery Boy]
    Beaky Buzzard
  11. 10. [Catching a Duck]
    Henery Hawk
  12. 11. ["(Mumble, mumble) and so, when the ugly duckling..."]
    Elmer Fudd and Daffy
  13. 12. [Goldie Goldfish]
    Mary Jane and Sniffles
  14. 13. Porky of the Mounties
    Porky Pig
  15. 14. The Traveling Tree
    Bugs Bunny
  16. 15. Prize Pet
    Daffy Duck
  17. 16. Fun on the Run
    Beep Beep the Road Runner
  18. 17. Tweety and Sylvester
    The Tasmanian Devil and his Tasty Friends
  19. 18. Snooper in a Stupor
    Daffy Duck
  20. 19. Plane Daffy
    Tweety and Sylvester
  21. 20. Romeo and Drooliet
    Daffy Duck
  22. 21. Wise Quacker
    Daffy Duck
  23. 22. Fwankentweety
    Tweety and Sylvester
  24. 23. Snow Way Out
    Wile E. Coyote
  25. 24. Working Out the Bugs!
    Bugs Bunny
  26. 25. 75 Years Entertaining the World
    Warner Bros.
  27. 26. ["It's a party and you're invited!"]
    Warner Bros.
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Dana Gabbard (R.I.P.)
  • Merlin Haas
  • Katy Hayhurst
  • Clint Maxwell
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Jim Stangas
  • Jim Van Dore