Looney Tunes #42

(February 1982)

Little Lulu (Table of Contents: 1)

Whitman Comics; Little Lulu / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Irving Tripp

Inks

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Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

typeset; logo

First Line of Dialogue or Text

She’s Mr. Moppet’s little girl. In fact she’s everybody’s little girl. Little Lulu Delightfully yours in Whitman Comics!

Characters

Little Lulu; Tubby; Mr. Moppett; Annie; Iggy; Rollo

Keywords

comic book house ads

Indexer Notes

Whitman house ad for Little Lulu. Illustration is not a cover reproduction, as is usually the case in such ads. Original illustration created for this ad? Color ad on inside front cover.

[The Bad Luck Bird] (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script

Don R. Christensen

Pencils

Phil De Lara

Inks

?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Rome Siemon

Editing

Chase Craig (original editor)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hey! That's Porky, and he's going down the steepest hill in town!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Bugs Bunny; Porky Pig; house painter; kid with kite; old lady at window; angry big bruiser; bank teller; two bank robbers, two police officers

Synopsis

Try as they might, Porky and Bugs can’t get rid of a small stone bird statue that brings bad luck to those possessing it.

Reprints

• from Looney Tunes (Dell, 1955 series) #185 (March 1957)

Keywords

bad luck; bird; series of mishaps; statue

Indexer Notes

A possible allusion to the famous Warner Bros. film "The Maltese Falcon"? This particular bird statue is decidedly not “the stuff dreams are made of”!

Spooky Business (Table of Contents: 3)

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

Script

Vic Lockman

Pencils

Lee Holley

Inks

?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Larry Mayer

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Tweety and Sylvester have signed a truce during a joint -business venture…

Feature Logo

Tweety and Sylvester Dell Western Logo 1

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tweety Bird; Sylvester Pussycat; potential customer; angry customer; bank robber

Synopsis

Tweety and Sylvester go into a joint venture to operate a haunted house attraction in an amusement park. Business is bad because the scares are much more hokey than scary. To get better ideas for scary attractions, they investigate a supposedly “real haunted house” and find the scares there to be just as hokey as their own – but rigged and operated by a bank robber using the place as a hideout.

Keywords

amusement park; bank robber; haunted house; hoax; partnership

Indexer Notes

Sylvester abruptly dissolves the short-lived partnership at story's end, and resumes the classic chase.

Best Wishes (Table of Contents: 4)

Porky Pig / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Lee Holley

Inks

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Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Larry Mayer

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Look what I bought for you, Cicero!

Feature Logo

Porky Pig [Dell/Western Logo Two Lines]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Porky Pig; Petunia Pig; Cicero Pig; Porky's unnamed neighbor #1; Porky's unnamed neighbor #2; E.Z. Cashflow; Phipps

Synopsis

Porky warns Petunia against “spoiling” Cicero with gifts. Petunia circumvents Porky’s edict by indulging Cicero in the guise of “Cicero’s Good Fairy”. Porky sees-through the ruse, and puts the “good-fairy-wishing-bit” through some skeptical testing – first wishing for a plaid sport coat, and then a yacht. Can "Good Fairy Petunia" make these wishes come true?

Keywords

be-careful-what-you-wish-for; best of intentions; disguise; getting carried away; good-fairy; spoiling children

Just Plumb Daffy (Table of Contents: 5)

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

Script

Vic Lockman

Pencils

Lee Holley

Inks

?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Larry Mayer

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Daffy is not your ordinary plumber…

Feature Logo

Daffy Duck [Dell/Western Interior 1]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Daffy Duck; dissatisfied customer #1; dissatisfied customer #2; envelope factory night watchmen; payroll thief

Synopsis

Plumber Daffy creates at least one new leak for every leak he stops… Usually a bigger one! His business is headed “down the drain” when he receives an emergency midnight call from an envelope factory with an unexplained water leak. Can Daffy save the envelope inventory from being glued worthlessly shut? And how does this tie in to the company’s payroll, locked in a safe one floor above?

Keywords

envelopes; flood; leak; payroll; plumber; safe; water pipe

The Wild Hare (Table of Contents: 6)

Yosemite Sam / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Lee Holley

Inks

?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Larry Mayer

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Ah-h-h! It does me good to be at sea again, Rabbit… Even with you aboard!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Yosemite Sam; Bugs Bunny; gorilla; island natives

Synopsis

Bugs and Sam are sailing the tropics, when a typhoon hits Sam’s ship and sweeps Bugs away. Bugs washes up on an island and is attacked by a gorilla. Vanquishing the gorilla by sheer luck and a well-placed coconut, Bugs is made leader of the grateful natives. Sam gets back into the picture in an unexpected way, and so does the gorilla.

Keywords

coconuts; gorilla; sea or island setting; ship; typhoon

Indexer Notes

The island natives honor Bugs with the quote: “You Wild Hare of Pingo Pongo!”, a declaration containing two classic Warner Bros. cartoon titles - “A Wild Hare” (1940, the seminal Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd hunting encounter) and “The Isle of Pingo Pongo” (1938, one of several Warner travelogue spoof cartoons), both of which were directed by Tex Avery. The stranded Bugs also refers to himself as "Rabbitson Crusoe", the title of a 1956 Bugs Bunny cartoon directed by Friz Freleng, co-starring Yosemite Sam. Too many instances to be coincidental. Nice job by the (alas) anonymous writer.

Daffy Duck (Table of Contents: 7)

Whitman Comics; Daffy Duck / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Joe Messerli

Inks

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Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

typeset; logo

First Line of Dialogue or Text

He’ll quack you up in Whitman Comics

Characters

Daffy Duck

Keywords

comic book house ads

Indexer Notes

Whitman house ad for Daffy Duck. Reproduces the cover illustration for Daffy Duck (Western, 1962 series) #114 April 1978. Color ad on inside back cover.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8)

Whitman Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Meet your favorite comic characters and enjoy exciting adventure in... Whitman Comics.

Keywords

comic book house ads

Indexer Notes

House ad for Whitman Comics. Color ad on back cover.