Four Color #888 - Elmer Fudd [15¢]

Dell, 1942 Series
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Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
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On-sale Date
1958-02-11
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Issue Notes

On-sale date from 1958 Books and Pamphlets, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
This issue is a variant of Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #888 - Elmer Fudd.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

Elmer Fudd / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
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Pencils
Phil De Lara
Inks
Phil De Lara
Letters
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First Line of Dialogue or Text
Are you sure this is good wallpaper for a bedroom?
Genre
humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Elmer Fudd; Bugs Bunny
Synopsis
Because he's having trouble sleeping, Elmer puts up some wallpaper in his bedroom that will make him sleepy.

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover; black and white. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

Rabbit Punch-y (Table of Contents: 2)

Elmer Fudd / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script
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Pencils
Phil De Lara
Inks
Phil De Lara
Colors
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Letters
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Genre
humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Elmer Fudd; Bugs Bunny; Professor Dip
Synopsis
Wanting to get away from Bugs, Elmer volunteers to test an experimental time machine. He goes back hundreds of years only to meet Bugs' "gweat, gweat, gweat gwandaddy." The pair then play out the Jack and the Beanstalk story.
Keywords
time travel

Indexer Notes

Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

Lucky Ducky (Table of Contents: 3)

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

Script
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Pencils
Phil De Lara
Inks
Phil De Lara
Colors
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Letters
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Genre
humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Elmer Fudd; Daffy Duck
Synopsis
Elmer goes golfing with his boss, but Daffy comes along as Elmer's caddy and disrupts things.
Keywords
golf

Indexer Notes

Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

Hobby Hassle (Table of Contents: 4)

Elmer Fudd / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
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Pencils
Phil De Lara
Inks
Phil De Lara
Colors
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Letters
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Genre
humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Elmer Fudd; Crusher McKirk
Synopsis
Elmer's new neighbor is wrestler Crusher McKirk, who is driving Elmer crazy with his loud and bad horn playing.

Indexer Notes

Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

Fair Weather Friend (Table of Contents: 5)

Elmer Fudd / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
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Pencils
Phil De Lara
Inks
Phil De Lara
Colors
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Letters
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Genre
humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Elmer Fudd; Daffy Duck
Synopsis
Elmer is a contestant on a TV quiz show and his task is to bring in a little black duck. As fate would have it, Daffy is mad at Elmer and won't go with him.

Indexer Notes

The TV show in the story, "Are You Going to Get Yours?," is based on the "Truth or Consequences" TV show. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

Elmer Fudd / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
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Pencils
Phil De Lara
Inks
Phil De Lara
Colors
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Letters
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First Line of Dialogue or Text
Oh Boy! A Tweasure Map!
Genre
humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Elmer Fudd; Bugs Bunny
Synopsis
Elmer finds a treasure map and digs a hole from his carrot patch into Bugs' underground home.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

[Umbrella Shortage] (Table of Contents: 7)

Elmer Fudd / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
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Pencils
Phil De Lara
Inks
Phil De Lara
Letters
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Genre
humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Elmer Fudd
Synopsis
Elmer sells all his umbrellas at his sidewalk stand, then doesn't have one for himself when he walks home in the rain.

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover; black and white; pantomime story. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

[Matching Barrels] (Table of Contents: 8)

Elmer Fudd / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
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Pencils
Phil De Lara
Inks
Phil De Lara
Colors
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Letters
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Genre
humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Elmer Fudd
Synopsis
Elmer goes into Bugs Bunny's tailor shop dressed in a barrel and comes out still in the barrel, but with small barrels around his legs.

Indexer Notes

Back cover; pantomime. Two-panel strip. Bugs' name is on the store awning, but he does not appear. Dell's "A Pledge to Parents" is in the lower right corner.

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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 1. ["Are you sure this is good wallpaper for a bedroom?"]
    Elmer Fudd
  2. 2. Rabbit Punch-y
    Elmer Fudd
  3. 3. Lucky Ducky
    Elmer Fudd
  4. 4. Hobby Hassle
    Elmer Fudd
  5. 5. Fair Weather Friend
    Elmer Fudd
  6. 6. ["Oh Boy! A Tweasure Map!"]
    Elmer Fudd
  7. 7. [Umbrella Shortage]
    Elmer Fudd
  8. 8. [Matching Barrels]
    Elmer Fudd
This issue was modified by
  • Steve Coates
  • Alan Hutchinson