Boys' and Girls' March of Comics #231 [Child Stars]

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

blank page(s) / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

Egg-Stra Special (Table of Contents: 2)

Bugs Bunny / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script

Don R. Christensen ?

Pencils

Fred Abranz

Inks

Fred Abranz

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Fred Abranz

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hey! It's my old pal Benny Bunny! I didn't know you were an Easter Bunny, Benny!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Bugs Bunny; Benny Bunny; various other Easter Bunny helpers; The Number One Bunny; Muggsy Mugger; two police officers

Synopsis

When the Easter Basket Magic (that allows each bunny’s delivery-basket to replenish itself with Easter eggs as he makes his rounds) suddenly ceases, Bugs and Benny Bunny travel to Easter Island to find the cause. They find The Number One Bunny tied up and robbed of his “Charmed Chicken Feather” which is the source of all Easter magic. Bugs and Benny catch up with the thief, Muggsy Mugger, and then the fun begins.

Keywords

be-careful-what-you-wish-for; Easter; Easter basket; Easter Bunny; Easter eggs; Easter Island; feather; magic; theft; wishes

Indexer Notes

Good Twist: The bunnies and Muggsy Mugger each try to use the wishing-magic of the Charmed Chicken Feather to stop, or otherwise stymie, the other(s). The catch is that the Feather’s magic can only be used to perform “good-deed wishes” – and nothing to harm or imprison anyone, even a bad guy – so each must awkwardly come up with creative ways to use the magic against the other(s) expressed in the form of good deeds!

The story reads very much like the work of Don R. Christensen, who once said to Joe Torcivia that he wrote over 300 Bugs Bunny stories, but nothing like it appears in his notes - so his credit here will be marked "Uncertain".

Bugs's Easter Bunnies (Table of Contents: 3)

Bugs Bunny / activity / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Tony Strobl

Inks

?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Bugs is going to have an Easter party and is making placecards in the shape of Easter Bunnies.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Bugs Bunny

Synopsis

How to make Easter Bunny shaped placecard holders using marshmallows and cloves.

Keywords

cloves; crafts; Easter; Easter Bunny; Easter party; marshmallows; placecard holders

Bugs's EGGciting Easter Fun (Table of Contents: 4)

Bugs Bunny / activity / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Tony Strobl

Inks

?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Let Bugs show you how to make these giant Easter eggs.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Bugs Bunny

Synopsis

How to make "giant Easter eggs" using balloons, strips of newspaper, and water colors.

Keywords

balloons; crafts; Easter; Easter eggs; newspaper; water colors

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

blank page(s) / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover.

[Bugs Stepping Carefully] (Table of Contents: 6)

Bugs Bunny / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Tony Strobl

Inks

?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

typeset

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Bugs Bunny

Synopsis

Full figure illustration of Bugs Bunny treadling lightly as he walks, repurposed from another Western comic book source.

Keywords

repurposed art

Indexer Notes

Illustration shares back cover space with logo and ad copy for whichever firm is distributing the issue as a giveaway premium. Illustration comprises top third of page, lower two thirds can be blank if no named sponsor.