Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Comics #63

(January 1947)

Bugs Bunny's Christmas Basket (Table of Contents: 1)

Bugs Bunny / text story / 1.75 pages (report information)

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Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop (selective red coloring)

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

"Hooray! Two weeks from today is Christmas!" Bugs Bunny chortled gaily, rushing into Porky Pig's house one snowy afternoon.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Bugs Bunny; Porky Pig

Keywords

Christmas

Indexer Notes

Black, white, and red on inside front and back covers.

[Bitten by the Acting Bug] (Table of Contents: 2)

Bugs Bunny / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Roger Armstrong

Inks

Roger Armstrong

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Oh, what is so rare as a day in June!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Bugs Bunny; Petunia Pig; Beaky Buzzard; Elmer Fudd; Porky Pig; town sheriff; two phony movie producers

Synopsis

Two crooks, posing as movie producers, plan to rob the town blind while the populace is blindly distracted by stardom and acting ambitions.

Keywords

diversion; impulsiveness; robbery; show business scam; winter setting; wrong impression

[Captives of The Frost King] (Table of Contents: 3)

Mary Jane and Sniffles / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

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Pencils

Ralph Heimdahl

Inks

Ralph Heimdahl

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Better play in the house, Mary Jane!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; fantasy-supernatural; humor

Characters

Sniffles; Mary Jane; Mary Jane's mother; The Frost King; various citizens of Frostland; Autumn Elf

Synopsis

Sniffles takes a shrunken Mary Jane to Frostland, a land of ice and snow found beyond a little door inside Mary Jane's kitchen refrigerator. There they are imprisoned and sentenced by the Frost King to hard labor in the hailstone mines, for the crime of asking for heat.

Keywords

ice; imprisonment; shrinking; snow; strange land; winter setting

Indexer Notes

Title logo actually says "Sniffles and Mary Jane". Ralph Heimdahl credit from Alberto Becattini (2020).

[The Great Christmas Gift Rift] (Table of Contents: 4)

Porky Pig / comic story / 11.8 pages (report information)

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Pencils

Roger Armstrong

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Roger Armstrong

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Here comes Porky! I'll wait'll he gets by, an' then I'll let him have it!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Porky Pig; Bugs Bunny; Petunia Pig; Pansy Pig; department store saleswoman; Mr. Bumpus (department store owner); bulldog

Synopsis

Porky and Petunia have a big misunderstanding over the nature of Porky's Christmas gift for Petunia.

Keywords

best of intentions; bicycle; Christmas; gifts; misunderstanding; purse; series of mishaps; snowball throwing; winter setting; wrong impression

Indexer Notes

Story is interrupted at the bottom right of page 7 by a vertical Statement of Ownership of about 20% of the total page space. Roger Armstrong credit from Alberto Becattini (2020).

Statement of The Ownership, Management, Circulation Etc. (Table of Contents: 5)

statement of ownership / 0.2 page (report information)

Script

Helen Meyer (credited) (business manager)

Letters

typeset

Keywords

government reporting; regulations

Indexer Notes

Statement of Ownership for October 1, 1946. No circulation figures appear as part of this report. Published vertically, occupying about 20% of the lower right page space on page 7 of the Porky Pig story - interrupting that story.

[The Magic Show No-Go!] (Table of Contents: 6)

Henery Hawk / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Veve Risto

Inks

Veve Risto

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Veve Risto

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Jeepers! I'd sure like to go to that!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Henery Hawk; Ollie Owl; Mr. Henery K. Hawk, Sr.; Mr. Oliver Owl, Sr.; Mrs. Henery K. Hawk, Sr.; Mother Hen; three little chicks; fox

Synopsis

Henery fails at every attempt to earn 25-cents to see a magic show, then turns his attentions to catching some baby chicks posing as a baby sitter.

Keywords

baby sitting; best-laid-plans; house painting; jelly beans; lack-of-funds; magic show; one-character-desiring-another-as-a-meal; outsmarting one’s-self

[The Official Worrier] (Table of Contents: 7)

Elmer Fudd / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

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Pencils

Veve Risto

Inks

Veve Risto

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Veve Risto

First Line of Dialogue or Text

'Smatter, doc? You look worried!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Elmer Fudd; Bugs Bunny; Porky Pig; Mister Blowtop (Elmer's boss)

Synopsis

Bugs talks his way into the job as Elmer's "Official Worrier". Elmer's worries are only beginning.

Reprints

• in Bugs Bunny's Vacation Funnies (Dell, 1951 series) #5 ([June] 1955) [retitled, redrawn and partially rewritten version with Bugs Bunny replaced by Daffy Duck]

Keywords

football game; mistaken identity; series of mishaps; tough boss; worries; wrong impression

Give Them Bugs Bunny All Year 'Round! (Table of Contents: 8)

Dell Comics; Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1.25 pages (report information)

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Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Special Christmas Offer

Characters

Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd; Porky Pig

Keywords

comic book house ads; mail subscriptions

Indexer Notes

Ad offering one, two, and three year subscriptions to Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies at a discount off the newsstand price - $1.00 for one year, $1.75 for two years, and 2.50 for three years. "Attractive gift card goes with each subscription." Also free, an 8x10 color picture of Bugs Bunny and three "colorful picture stamps". Color ad on back cover, but with two order blanks on bottom inside of back cover.