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Issue: Bugs Bunny #148
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Variant: Gold Key
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Publisher: FlagWestern
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Indicia Publisher: Western Publishing Company Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/1973
Volume: none
Pages: 36
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UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
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Content Items: 19 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Cover code: 90070-303. Last 15-cent issue. There is no actual cover date in the indicia or on the cover of the Gold Key version. The issue’s cover code is 90070-303, indicating a cover date of March, 1973. That code is duplicated on the first interior page.
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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
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Say It With Carrots

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Bugs Bunny; Honey Bunny
Bugs presents Honey Bunny with a bouquet of carrots.
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Do You Need Extra Money?

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It costs you nothing to try
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Ad for selling all-occasion cards for Cheerful House. "Cheerful House" appears to have been formerly known as the "Cheerful Card Company" - ads are virtually the same copy. Color ad on inside front cover.
Ye Olde Outlaws

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Bugs Bunny; Uncle Buckskin (Bugs' uncle); W.C. Freels (villain); The Seedy Bunch (three old-time, retired outlaws)
Stop the train!
To get Uncle Buckskin’s carload of gold nuggets to the bank by train, Bugs decides to disguise the gold as coal.
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B.B. #148-731
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Get these dynamite embroidered cloth patches that tell it like it is!
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Various cartoon characters, comic characters, and counterculture symbols offered as embroidered cloth patches. Sold by Gandalf Products Co. Between pages 4 and 5 of previous story.
The Phantom Fugitive

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Bugs Bunny; Gabbo the ventriloquist; Mystro the magician, strongman; Dum-Dum the dummy; various police; various carnival workers and patrons.
Ow! Another bulls-eye!
A carnival performer frames Bugs for a robbery – but which performer is it?
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Order by Mail Specials

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Ad for various novelty items from The Fun House (aka "Dollar Bargains"). Between pages 2 and 3 of previous story. Top half of page.
Scary, Life Size Monster Ghost

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Obeys Your Commands!
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Ad for 7 foot polyethylene ghost for $1.00, with free "Peeping Skeleton Hands" for each order. Sold by Melton Co. Between pages 2 and 3 of previous story. Lower half of page.
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Black and white ad for various novelty items from Johnson Smith Co. Between pages 5 and 6 of previous story. In centerfold.
Kids, Roach Designs Are Now Available as Iron-On Transfers!

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Various cartoon characters, comic characters, and counterculture symbols offered as iron-on transfers. Sold by Gandalf Products Co. Between pages 5 and 6 of previous story. In centerfold.
Holiday Hazard

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Beep Beep the Road Runner; Beep Beep's three sons; Wile E. Coyote; Beep Beep's dad; other members of the Road Runner family
“Pop, I wonder if there are more… or is our family just we four?” asked a little Road Runner one day.
Beep Beep confesses that he is estranged from his family because, when he was young and impulsive, he left their valley and “went his own way”. Since the three Beep Boys should meet the rest of their family, Beep Beep leads them home – where they are warmly welcomed and very well fed. So well-fed are they that, when they leave for home, they are almost caught by Wile E. Coyote because “The feast and play was all great fun, but now we’re all too fat to run!” After narrowly escaping the coyote’s clutches, the Road Runners vow “Never again will we feast and play… and get too fat on a holiday!”
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When noting, as they do in the first line, that they are a family of four, the Road Runners are forgetting their (presumably ret-conned out) mother “Matilda”, who appeared in the first few Dell issues of the Beep Beep the Road Runner title, as well as in the 1960s Gold Key reprints of those same issues. Even in this text story, the Road Runners maintain their comic-book tradition of rhyming dialogue.
Collectors Series New Snoopy's Pin Pals

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Snoopy; Charlie Brown; Lucy; Linus (as pins)
Hand painted plastic pin-ons.
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14 different Peanuts "hand painted plastic pin-ons" are advertised by Gandalf Products Co. One illustration of Snoopy (probably not by Charles Schulz) and photos of the 14 pins. Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Lucy, and Linus are seen as pins.
Love in Boom

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Tweety; Sylvester Pussycat; Anastasia (female cat); Anastasia's father; Berty Glitterly
...And don’t bother my daughter Anastasia again with your sweet talk and flowers! Scram you no-account Romeo!
Tweety helps a hopelessly-in-love Sylvester woo and elope with Anastasia, over the objections of her angry dad!
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This story is reminiscent of bits that Michael Maltese had done in his early 1960s animation writing for Hanna-Barbera's Snagglepuss. Given that Maltese had returned to write for Western Publishing at this time, as his animation writing work wound down, he is a likely candidate as this story’s author.
Mr. X Marks the Spot

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Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd; newspaper editor; Slugs and Knuckles (two crooks); Mr. X’s aide; Mr. X
No one’s been successful in getting a picture of Mr. X, the recluse billionaire! Get that picture and I’ll give you both a job on my newspaper!
Bugs and Elmer are out to photograph the reclusive billionaire Mr. X, but instead mistake two crooks who have just robbed Mr. X for the billionaire and his bodyguard.
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Massimo Fecchi art credit from the book “American Funny Animal Comics in the 20th Century Volume One” by Alberto Becattini, page 223. Becattini cites Fecchi as the artist of “Music to Grow Gardens By” in Bugs Bunny (Western, 1962 Series) #144. The art style there is the same as in this story.
Free Color Film

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Why pay for film when you can get it free?
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Ad offering a free roll of film, for 25-cents handling and a self-addressed-stamped-envelope. Limited to one per family. Developing services are offered. Ad is "one-quarter page", on the left side of the top half of the page. Between pages 2 and 3 of previous story.
Free...

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Over 100 gifts are waiting for you!
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Ad offering free catalogs of items that can be ordered at no cost, for 25-cents handling and a self-addressed-stamped-envelope. Limited to "one list per person", from Gandalf Products Co. Ad is "one-quarter page", on the right side of the top half of the page. Between pages 2 and 3 of previous story.
Blood Curdling Vampire Bat

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It's life size!
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Black and white ad offering a life-size vampire bat toy, and several other creatures comprising a "Horror Outfit". Sold by Guarantee Co. Lower half of page. Between pages 2 and 3 of previous story. This ad, at half-a-page, and the previous two ads, at a quarter-page each, comprise a single page of advertising.
204 Revolutionary War Soldiers

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Ad for plastic toy soldiers. 204 pieces for $1.98.
Wow! Pow! Now!

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J.S.C.A.’s Beautiful Greeting Cards Give You More Sell Power.
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Ad for Junior Sales Club of America, offering prizes or money for the sales of "all occasion greeting cards". Color ad on inside back cover.
Make Money Get Prizes with Fast Selling American Seeds

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Two kids with quotes endorsing this enterprise, seen in black and white photos.
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Ad for selling vegetable and flower seeds for the American Seed Co., in exchange for prizes or money.
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