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Issue: Bugs Bunny #97
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagWestern
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: K. K. Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/25/1964
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: First of a long series of this title to be primarily reprint, with only an average of six pages of new content per issue. Those six pages could be comic story, cover, text story, or any combination thereof. For the Bugs Bunny title, reprints, mostly from Dell issues, would predominate until issue #140 (Cover Date: January 1972). On-sale date from 1965 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US; then standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Some/all of Issue reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue:
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
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Sleepwalking Sleuth

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Bugs Bunny
also Bugs Bunny in the Foreign Legion
Bugs, with magnifying glass in hand, sleepwalks over a night-darkened cityscape, traveling along some telephone or insulated electric wires.
Reprinting
FlagDaffy #2/1968 published January 1968
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Art modification: As the “Bugs Bunny” logo on Dell Four Color #233 is much larger than the Gold Key “Bugs Bunny” logo of Bugs Bunny #97, the buildings and telephone pole at the lower portion of the cover are extended downward, to better center the figure of Bugs on the cover.
Miscellaneous
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
Golden Magazine for Boys and Girls
Eskimo boy having caught some issues of Golden Magazine, along with fish.
Just the thing for long winter nights at your igloo the Golden Magazine for Boys and Girls
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Miscellaneous
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Promo and subscription coupon for the Golden Magazine for Boys and Girls, published by Golden Press. Black and white ad on inside front cover.
Bugs Bunny, Sleepwalking Sleuth

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd; police officer; stolen-car-ring boss; stolen-car-ring watchman; Foreign Legion recruiter
I will now play my favowit game… “pin the tail on the wabbit”!
Bugs experiences a temporary bout of sleepwalking. Waking-up after one such somnambulant sojourn, a fall on his head causes Bugs to lose his memory. He finds a wallet belonging to “Herbert Q. Strongheart of the F.B.I.” and assumes he is an agent in a clever rabbit disguise. Under this delusion, he sets out to crack a stolen car ring.
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"Reprinted by popular demand". First reprinted Bugs Bunny story. Many will follow. Aside from Elmer Fudd, all human characters in this story are drawn with five fingers, while Fudd displays the more typical “cartoon-four”. Later in the story Bugs gets the name of his amnesia-adopted alter-ego wrong, when he refers to himself as “Horace Q. Strongheart of th’ F.B.I.”. As this does not appear to be a part of any gag or plot point, we must assume a scripting or lettering error to account for this discrepancy. The last panel of this story sets-up the issue's other main feature, as Elmer is seen enlisting in the Foreign Legion to get away from Bugs.
The Stowaway

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Daffy Duck; Yosemite Sam; Fluffy (dog); Sir Feltbottom (wealthy yachtsman)
Well, lookit here – a poor lost stowaway dog!
Deckhand Daffy finds a stowaway dog aboard Sam’s ship. Lest Sam throw the poor pooch overboard, Daffy vows to teach the dog the fine (and laborious) points of being a sailor. To provide proper learning examples, Daffy goes through all the effort and all the pain, while the dog sits lazily by, uttering a single “Wuff!” each time.
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Miscellaneous
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New story.
Ladies’ Day (of Regret)

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Bugs Bunny; two would-be gentlemen
Bugs, you clever, clever bunny! Heh, heh!
Bugs dresses as a woman to get in free at the baseball park on "Ladies Day."
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Miscellaneous
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Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (January 8, 2008)
Getting in Shape

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, non-fiction
Tweety Bird; Sylvester Pussycat
“Ha, ha! You can’t catch wittle me, you nassy ol’ puddy tat,” taunted Tweety.
To get Sylvester back in shape, Tweety encourages the cat to take up golf.
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Miscellaneous
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New story.
Bugs Bunny in the Foreign Legion

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd; Elizabeth (camel); Legion captain; various legionaries; Abu Hu (desert bandit chieftain); various desert bandits; dancing girl
Whew! I knew it got vewy hot on the desert, but I had no idea it was this bad!
Having joined the Foreign Legion at the end of the first story, Elmer still can’t escape Bugs, who turns up at the Legion’s outpost as a desert peddler. The captain sends Elmer on a dangerous undercover mission for which he needs to join forces with Bugs. At a hostile bandits’ camp, Bugs’ use of (1940's) American slang gets the pair in deep trouble.
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Miscellaneous
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"Reprinted by popular demand". Per the book “American Funny Animal Comics in the 20th Century Volume One” by Alberto Becattini (2019), pages 219-220, this is the first Bugs Bunny comic book story to be drawn by Tony Strobl, who would have a long and successful association with the comic book bunny from 1949 thru the early-to-mid 1960s. Animator/creator references page 3, panel 1: A list of legionaries on K.P. duty consists of “Patterson” (animators Don and/or Ray Patterson); “McKimson” (animators Robert, Tom, and/or Charles McKimson), and “Strobl” (Tony Strobl, this story’s artist).
Fooler Brush Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd
This brush ain't much good, but I gotta sell it...
Trying to sell a brush to Elmer, door-to-door salesman Bugs' pitch is so good he buys the brush himself.
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Miscellaneous
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Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Only the Bottled-Best for Bugs

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd; three salesmen for different brands of bottled water
Isn't it the most delicious water you ever tasted?
Bugs tries several brands of bottled water before deciding on which one to use in his squirting flower.
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Miscellaneous
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Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (January 8, 2008).
Sleep-Walking Dog-Walker

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Bugs Bunny, Floo-Floo (dog); Floo-Floo's owner; sleep-walker
Oh, what a night fer a stroll in th' park...
Bugs finds a unique way to minimize his dog-walking efforts.
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Miscellaneous
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Black and white on inside back cover. Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
100 pc Toy Soldiers Set $1.25

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
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Miscellaneous
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Ad for 100 plastic toy soldiers, packed in a footlocker-styled storage box. No name of manufacturer or sales/marketing/mail order firm mentioned in this ad. Only an address of "Carle Place, Long Island, N.Y." Color ad on back cover. Black and white photo of a boy looking over the entire set,E

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