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Football Luck

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Bugs Bunny; The Swamp Witch; football player

Synopsis: Football runner Bugs outmaneuvers a defender, while The Swamp Witch looks on.

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Bugs Bunny #28 published December 1952
was Football Luck [Illustration on Cover, Front]

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Pages: 1

Notes: Cover illustrates the issue's lead story.

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Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd

First Line: I heard you were opening today, Bugs, so I'm here to twy out your food!

Synopsis: At Bugs' new cafe, Elmer orders "woast pwime wib of beef" - a la carte - and Bugs delivers.

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Bugs Bunny #28 published December 1952

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Pages: 1

Notes: Black and white on inside front cover.

Football Luck

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Bugs Bunny; streetcar driver; Coach "Hardluck" Kooch; B.P. Prattly; Joketown Giants (football team); Slick (crooked gambler); Slick's henchman; The Swamp Witch; Porky Pig; Midland Monsters (rival football team); road construction worker; Coach Kooch's ten kids

First Line: Look out, Rabbit!

Synopsis: Bugs is signed to play for the Joketown Giants, a pro football team, because his incredible luck makes him unstoppable, but a crooked gambler hires the Swamp Witch to put a hex on him.

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Bugs Bunny #28 published December 1952
was Football Luck [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 14

Notes: "Reprinted by popular demand".

The Swamp Witch, disguised as a poor old lady, hexes Bugs with a poisoned carrot a la Snow White's poisoned apple.

The gambling aspect of the story is soft-pedaled, yet obvious, when Slick says to his henchman: "You know we've got REASONS for wanting the Monsters to win!"

GOOD BIT: Before Bugs demonstrates his lucky running abilities to the Joketown Giants, the team's owner, B.P. Prattly, fires Coach Kooch:

COACH KOOCH (pleading): "Mister Prattly... you can't! I need the job! I've got a wife and ten kids!"
PRATTLY (unsympathetic): "Okay... then start a football team of your own!"

In football, each team is allowed ELEVEN players on the field at a time during a play. Prattly is making a cruelly sarcastic reference to Coach Kooch's eleven dependents.

Sylvester's Silly Superstitions

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Tweety Bird; Sylvester Pussycat; fieldmouse; house painter

First Line: "Almost got you!" cried Sylvester, making a grab for Tweety, who easily evaded him.

Synopsis: Sylvester does his best to justify his belief in superstitions to a skeptical Tweety. ...He doesn't.

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Pages: 1

Notes: New story.

Snow Shovel Assumptions

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd

First Line: Eh-h...I'd better get rid of some of this stuff! I don't want to get snowed in!

Synopsis: Bugs assumes that Elmer might not lend the rabbit his snow shovel.

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Bugs Bunny #28 published December 1952

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Pages: 1

Notes: Middle left page of centerfold.

I'm Fallin' Over... A Four-Leaf Clover...

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Daffy Duck

First Line: Woo! Woo! This must be my lucky day!

Synopsis: A series of mishaps resulting from painter Daffy's falling from a scaffold, results in his finding a four-leaf clover.

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Daffy #4 published January 1956
was I'm Fallin' Over... A Four-Leaf Clover... [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 1

Notes: Our unofficial title is a parody of the song "I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover", a tune that Warner Bros. composer Carl Stalling worked into different Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons.

Middle right page of centerfold.

No-Bargain Hunter

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd: Stacy's Department Store manager; elevator operator; homely lady; store detective

First Line: Hmm! I could stand a little extra cash!

Synopsis: Bugs gets a job at Stacey's Department Store acting as a rabbit in a window display of hunting and camping equipment. Elmer spots the wabbit in the store window and slips in to take the place of the rifle-holding dummy hunter. The expected havoc ensues throughout the store!

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Bugs Bunny #34 published December 1953
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 10

Notes: "Reprinted by popular demand". Dialogue and situations are "Maltese-ian"!

This story reads like a prime Looney Tunes cartoon, with Bugs and Elmer transferring their tried-and-true bits from animation to the comic book page. It also has an authentic Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies pedigree with the creative talents of Michael Maltese and Phil De Lara behind it.

A nice little throw-away bit that readers caught up in the department-store-romp action might not notice is that, as Elmer pursues Bugs with rapid rifle fire into the toy department, an inflatable clown in the background is quietly punctured by one of Elmer's bullets. It is full-sized as Bugs runs past it - but is compressed to half its size as Elmer runs past it. A small-lettered, almost imperceptible, "ssss" sound effect emanates from a tiny hold made in the clown's lower right side. Nothing more is made of it. Page 9, panels 5-6.

Bugs, hopping like a rabbit around a store window display, is directly borrowed from the Chuck Jones 1945 Bugs Bunny theatrical animated short "Hare Conditioned". The writing credit for that cartoon goes to Warner Bros. gag man Tedd Pierce, but Michael Maltese was most likely involved in group story meetings and possibly in other ways. As in the story, the department store in the cartoon was also named "Stacey's Department Store"... an obvious parody reference to the well-known "Macy's Department Store".

King on a Fling

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Daffy Duck; Elmer Fudd; King Quacky; King Quacky's guards and attendants; Count Crow; Count Crow's minions

First Line: Scat, you pesty meal-moocher!

Synopsis: A great storm accidentally buffets a flying Daffy all the way to the duck kingdom of Duckvia, where the bored King Quacky trades places with him prince-and-the-pauper-duck style. As king even Daffy tires of the overindulgent royal treatment and escapes his gilded cage of a castle, only to run into his enemy Count Crow.

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Pages: 4

Notes: New story.

Butterfly Tie

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Daffy DucK, Elmer Fudd

Synopsis: Street vendor Daffy sells Elmer a tie... with a "temporary" design.

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Daffy #4 published January 1956
was Butterfly Tie [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 0.5

Notes: Pantomime. Top half of page.

The original printing in Daffy (Dell, 1956 series) #4 (January-March 1956) covered a full page. This reprint was reformatted, reducing it to 1/2 of a page, to make space for a Statement of Ownership. https://tiahblog.blogspot.com/2019/08/adventures-in-comic-boxing-compressed.html

Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation

Statement of Ownership on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 0.5

Notes: Statement of Ownership for September 28, 1965. Prepared by H.L. Anderson. Reported total paid circulation: 291,816 (12 month average), 274,700 (nearest issue). Lower half of page.

132 pc. Roman Soldiers Set only $1.98

Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

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First Line: 2 complete Roman armies!

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Pages: 1

Notes: Ad for molded plastic Roman soldiers. Color ad on inside back cover.

Make Money - Get Prizes

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Notes: In color on back cover

Make Money Get Prizes with Fast Selling American Seeds

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First Line: Take your choice of these wonderful prizes.

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Notes: Ad for selling vegetable and flower seeds for the American Seed Co., in exchange for prizes or money. Three kids with quotes endorsing this enterprise, are seen in black and white photos. Color ad on back cover.