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Issue: Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Comics #1
Publication Date: January 1941
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Issues: #1 of 107 Issues (111 Printings)
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
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Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
On Sale Date: 08/01/1941
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 15 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 3.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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FlagBugs Bunny and Friends #[nn] published December 1998 as Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies #1 cover [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Bugs Bunny; Porky Pig
Character(s): Bugs Bunny; Porky Pig
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Porky Pig; Bugs Bunny; Sniffles
Character(s): Porky Pig; Bugs Bunny; Sniffles
First Line: Porky is a funny pig...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: inside front cover
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The Wild Hare

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Chase Craig
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Bugs Bunny
Character(s): Bugs Bunny (first appearance); Elmer Fudd (first appearance)
Synopsis: Elmer goes hunting and has to deal with a screwy rabbit.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Basically a scene by scene adaptation of the 1940 Warner Bros. cartoon, "A Wild Hare," the first Bugs Bunny cartoon.
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Porky's Hired Hand

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Porky Pig
Character(s): Porky Pig (first appearance); Freddy Fox (first appearance)
Synopsis: Porky hires a night watchman to guard his chickens.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Sniffles
Character(s): Sniffles (first appearance); Mary Jane (first appearance); Mary Jane's mother (first appearance)
First Line: Always obey the law, kids!
Synopsis: Sniffles meets Mary Jane.
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Pages: 8
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Tom Thumb in Trouble

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Tom Thumb
Character(s): Tom Thumb (first appearance); Tom Thumb's father (first appearance)
Synopsis: Tom is saved from drowning by a little bird.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Porky's Hollywood Sketchbook

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Porky Pig
Character(s): Porky Pig
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Hollywood featurette.
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Cannibalism and a Roonga

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Win Smith (signed)
Penciller(s): Win Smith (signed)
Inker(s): Win Smith (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Pat, Patsy and Pete
Character(s): Pat (first appearance); Patsy (first appearance); Pete (a penguin; first appearance); Cap Water (Pat and Patsy's uncle; first appearance); Ringy Roonga [as "the ring-tailed roonga"] (first appearance); Mike (a South Seas cannibal); the king (of the cannibal village); king's attendant; king's sentry
First Line: Cap Water, the famous scientist and explorer, is heading an expedition into the South Seas for rare specimens for a large New York zoo.
Synopsis: Mike captures a roonga and PP&P. He delivers them to the king. The pot is put on to boil. Pete pitches a rock from the portal of the prison hut, beaning the king. Mike stages a coup d'etat, declaring himself king. The gang escapes in the chaos as Cap and the crew arrive. On the trail back, the rare roonga appears!
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Pages: 8
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Elmer and His Magic Wand

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Chase Craig
Inker(s): Chase Craig
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Elmer Fudd
Character(s): Elmer Fudd; Bugs Bunny
Synopsis: Bugs convinces Elmer that he has a magic wand.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Identification by historian David Gerstein
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Win Smith [as Leon Schlesinger] (signed)
Inker(s): Win Smith [as Leon Schlesinger] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Bugs Bunny
Character(s): Bugs Bunny; Porky Pig; Daffy Duck (first appearance)
First Line: What's the news about the contest, fellows?
Synopsis: Bugs steals a government airplane in order to win a model building contest.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Identification by historian David Gerstein
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Pokerhuntas and Captain Johnny Smith

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Pokerhuntas (first appearance); Captain Johnny Smith (first appearance)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Bugs Bunny and His Secret Six

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Bugs Bunny
Character(s): Bugs Bunny; Porky Pig; Daffy Duck; Sniffles; Petunia Pig (first appearance); Blabbermouse (first appearance)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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Believe It or Else

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Petunia Pig; Freddy Fox; Elmer Fudd
First Line: Well, here's Petunia Pig so sweet...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: inside back cover
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Illustration  on  Cover, Back
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Porky Pig
First Line: That's all, folks!
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Pages: 1

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