Credits
Inker(s):
?
Letterer(s):
?
Subject Matter
Genres:
anthropomorphic
Character(s):
Bugs Bunny; reluctant hunter; hunter's three children; two crocodiles; The Old Man of the Mountain; Crestview (gorilla); Santa Claus
First Line:
I've got you covered, so march, hare!!
Synopsis:
A father and reluctant hunter marches Bugs, at rifle-point, to the cabin the hunter shares with his three small children. He doesn’t really want to make rabbit stew out of Bugs but, since he believes that Santa Claus will not be coming with gifts for the young ones this Christmas, he feels that rabbit stew is the best he can do for the kids as a consolation. When Bugs learns from the family that the black-hearted Old Man of the Mountain is going to stop Santa, the rabbit vows to stop the Old Man of the Mountain – as only Bugs Bunny can!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:
Miscellaneous
Pages:
10
Notes:
"Reprinted by popular demand".
Bugs speaks and acts more like his cartoon persona, pointing to Maltese as the story’s author.
The hunter opens the story with: “I've got you covered, so march, hare!!” Maltese titled his 1953 Bugs Bunny cartoon, where Bugs was drafted into the Army, “Forward March Hare”.
The gorilla has a one-word vocabulary of "Omsk!", a monster's cry from one of Maltese's later TV cartoons.
After Bugs makes short work of the gorilla, the Old Man of the Mountain says: “Never send a gorilla to do the work of an evil old man!” In the Maltese-written Bugs Bunny cartoon “Water, Water, Every Hare” (1950), Bugs makes short work of a mad scientist’s monster, leaving the villain to say: “Never send a monster to do the work of a mad scientist!”