Bugs Bunny #148 [Whitman]

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Ye Olde Outlaws (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script

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Pencils

Massimo Fecchi

Inks

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Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Bill Spicer

Job Number

B.B. #148-731

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Stop the train!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Bugs Bunny; Uncle Buckskin (Bugs' uncle); W.C. Freels (villain); The Seedy Bunch (three old-time, retired outlaws)

Synopsis

To get Uncle Buckskin’s carload of gold nuggets to the bank by train, Bugs decides to disguise the gold as coal.

Keywords

coal; gold; train; western outlaws

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The Phantom Fugitive (Table of Contents: 4)

Bugs Bunny / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Massimo Fecchi

Inks

?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Bill Spicer

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Ow! Another bulls-eye!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Bugs Bunny; Gabbo the ventriloquist; Mystro the magician, strongman; Dum-Dum the dummy; various police; various carnival workers and patrons.

Synopsis

A carnival performer frames Bugs for a robbery – but which performer is it?

Keywords

carnival; frame-up; robbery

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Holiday Hazard (Table of Contents: 9)

Beep Beep the Road Runner / 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

“Pop, I wonder if there are more… or is our family just we four?” asked a little Road Runner one day.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Beep Beep the Road Runner; Beep Beep's three sons; Wile E. Coyote; Beep Beep's dad; other members of the Road Runner family

Synopsis

Beep Beep confesses that he is estranged from his family because, when he was young and impulsive, he left their valley and “went his own way”. Since the three Beep Boys should meet the rest of their family, Beep Beep leads them home – where they are warmly welcomed and very well fed. So well-fed are they that, when they leave for home, they are almost caught by Wile E. Coyote because “The feast and play was all great fun, but now we’re all too fat to run!” After narrowly escaping the coyote’s clutches, the Road Runners vow “Never again will we feast and play… and get too fat on a holiday!”

Keywords

family reunion

Indexer Notes

When noting, as they do in the first line, that they are a family of four, the Road Runners are forgetting their (presumably ret-conned out) mother “Matilda”, who appeared in the first few Dell issues of the Beep Beep the Road Runner title, as well as in the 1960s Gold Key reprints of those same issues. Even in this text story, the Road Runners maintain their comic-book tradition of rhyming dialogue.

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Love in Boom (Table of Contents: 11)

Tweety and Sylvester / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Michael Maltese ?; ?

Pencils

Pete Alvarado

Inks

?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Bill Spicer

First Line of Dialogue or Text

...And don’t bother my daughter Anastasia again with your sweet talk and flowers! Scram you no-account Romeo!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tweety; Sylvester Pussycat; Anastasia (female cat); Anastasia's father; Berty Glitterly

Synopsis

Tweety helps a hopelessly-in-love Sylvester woo and elope with Anastasia, over the objections of her angry dad!

Keywords

elopement; romance

Indexer Notes

This story is reminiscent of bits that Michael Maltese had done in his early 1960s animation writing for Hanna-Barbera's Snagglepuss. Given that Maltese had returned to write for Western Publishing at this time, as his animation writing work wound down, he is a likely candidate as this story’s author.

Mr. X Marks the Spot (Table of Contents: 12)

Bugs Bunny / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Massimo Fecchi

Inks

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Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Bill Spicer

First Line of Dialogue or Text

No one’s been successful in getting a picture of Mr. X, the recluse billionaire! Get that picture and I’ll give you both a job on my newspaper!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd; newspaper editor; Slugs and Knuckles (two crooks); Mr. X’s aide; Mr. X

Synopsis

Bugs and Elmer are out to photograph the reclusive billionaire Mr. X, but instead mistake two crooks who have just robbed Mr. X for the billionaire and his bodyguard.

Keywords

crooks; dogged persistence; newspaper; photo; recluse

Indexer Notes

Massimo Fecchi art credit from the book “American Funny Animal Comics in the 20th Century Volume One” by Alberto Becattini, page 223. Becattini cites Fecchi as the artist of “Music to Grow Gardens By” in Bugs Bunny (Western, 1962 Series) #144. The art style there is the same as in this story.

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