Looney Tunes #189 [15¢]

Sam's Lingo Lessons (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Seven-Up Presents: / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

[Hawaii or Bust… by Car?] (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script

Michael Maltese

Pencils

Phil De Lara

Inks

Phil De Lara

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Rome Siemon

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Open up, Fuddy, ol' buddy! It is I, Bugs Bunny - author, lecturer, and traveler! I await without!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd; swordfish; 1st ship's captain; 1st ship's mate; 2nd ship's captain; 2nd ship's steward

Synopsis

Bugs and Elmer set out to be the first to travel from Los Angeles to Hawaii by automobile, courtesy of a paddle-powered, crow’s-nest-equipped, wooden raft to propel Elmer’s car across the ocean. Nature and their own planning deficiencies conspire against them.

Reprints

• in Looney Tunes (Western, 1975 series) #41 (January 1982)

Keywords

best-laid-plans; car; dogged persistence; doing-something-their-own-way; Hawaii; inattentiveness; Los Angeles; raft; sea or island setting; series of mishaps

Indexer Notes

Dialogue is "Maltese-ian"!

[Th-Th-That’s Oil, Folks!] (Table of Contents: 3)

Porky Pig / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Phil De Lara

Inks

Phil De Lara

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Rome Siemon

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Where are we going, Porky...camping?

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Porky Pig; Cicero Pig; two real estate swindlers

Synopsis

Two real estate swindlers trick Porky into buying some desert land by pumping oil into it.

Keywords

buyer beware; desert setting; hoax; oil; real estate; swindlers

"A Flight of Fancy" (Table of Contents: 4)

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

Script

?

Pencils

Tony Strobl

Inks

?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

It was the Fourth of July, and Tweety Bird sat perched on the window sill, fluttering his tiny golden feathers in the sun and singing, "Tweet! "Tweet! "Tweet!".

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tweety Bird; Sylvester Pussycat

Synopsis

Tweety uses a Fourth of July skyrocket to try to go to the moon.

Keywords

best-laid-plans; Fourth of July; moon; skyrocket

Indexer Notes

Text story with one 1/4 page illustration; title is in quotes (which is unusual for these text stories)

[By the Books] (Table of Contents: 5)

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

Script

?

Pencils

Pete Alvarado

Inks

?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Rome Siemon

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Us tweety birds just love to take baths and get nice and clean!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tweety Bird; Sylvester Pussycat; Granny

Synopsis

Tweety and Sylvester set out to write competing books on how to foil one another.

Keywords

battle of wits; books; escalating events; working-at-cross-purposes

[The Grand Sand Castle Coup] (Table of Contents: 6)

Mary Jane and Sniffles / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Tony Strobl

Inks

?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

I don't know whether to hop on that ship of yours or watch you make this keen sand castle, Mary Jane!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; children; fantasy-supernatural; humor

Characters

Mary Jane; Sniffles; Captain Tristam; mutineer pirates, loyal sailors; Mary Jane's mother (cameo)

Synopsis

There’s a boatload of palace intrigue, when Mary Jane and Sniffles shrink themselves to enter Mary Jane’s sand castle to look for her lost charm bracelet. There, the captain of her tiny model ship is imprisoned by mutineers turned pirates.

Keywords

cannon; charm bracelet; magic words; model ship; mutiny; pirates; sand castle; shrinking

[Aw, Fer Th' Love'a Birds!] (Table of Contents: 7)

Daffy Duck / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Michael Maltese

Pencils

Phil De Lara

Inks

Phil De Lara

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Rome Siemon

First Line of Dialogue or Text

You're a moocher, that's what you are -- A dwatted moocher, and I'm sick and tired of having you eat me out of house and home!

Feature Logo

Daffy ["Daffy" Only Dell Interior 1]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Daffy Duck; Elmer Fudd; Uncle Wobert

Synopsis

Daffy ingratiates himself with Elmer’s bird-loving “wich Uncle Wobert” (rich Uncle Robert), much to Fudd’s consternation.

Reprints

• in Daffy Duck (Western, 1962 series) #141 (April 1982)

Keywords

bird lover; mooching; rich uncle

Dad [Mother Too] (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

Daisy Manufacturing Co. / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Summer Fun (Table of Contents: 9) (Expand) /

Daisy Manufacturing Co. / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Juicy Fruit Gum Safety Quiz (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

Wrigley's Juicy Fruit Gum / advertisement / 1 page (report information)