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Issue: Boys' and Girls' March of Comics #83
Publication Date: May 1952
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Issues: #83 of 488 Issues (1633 Printings)
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Variant: Non-Advertisement
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Publisher: FlagWestern
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: K. K. Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/01/1952
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.00 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 8 (2 stories, 2 covers)
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Disclose Notes: The inside front and inside back covers are blank. Front and back covers may have ads or logo images from various retailers that use the book as a giveaway premium.

May 1952 date taken from code on page one, panel 3: "K.K.G.A #83 525", where "525" designates May 1952.

On-sale date from 1952 Pamphlets…, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: early issues standard Golden Age U.S.; 1952-1959 oblong; later half-size
Paper Stock: most glossy cover and newsprint interior. early issues all newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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Concerto for Carrot

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, artistic
Character(s): Bugs Bunny
Synopsis: Bugs blows hard into a "wind instrument" fashioned from a carrot.
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Activity pages

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, artistic
Feature(s): Bugs Bunny
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Reprint Notes: from 1951
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: 4 pages of puzzles and picture story
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The Gypsy King

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, artistic
Character(s): Bugs Bunny; Daffy Duck; various Gypsies; Zaco (Gypsy); Tanno (Gypsy)
First Line: You heard me, Daffy! Scram!
Synopsis: Trying to escape the pesty and annoying Daffy, Bugs tunnels underground and comes up in a Gypsy encampment smack in the middle of the ceremony where the Gypsies select their next king. His sudden and unexpected appearance results in the rabbit being named King of the Gypsies – much to the displeasure of Gypsies Zaco and Tanno, who are bitter rivals for the crown. To complicate matters, Daffy horns-in looking for a piece of royalty for himself, and tradition dictates the Gypsy King's ears be painfully-pierced to accommodate the royal Golden Earrings - an ordeal big-eared Bugs wants no part of.
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Pages: 28
Disclose Notes: 28 pages in this format is the equivalent of 14 standard comic book pages.

A rare adventure story team-up of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, especially for the period.
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A Picture Story

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Bugs Bunny; Cicero Pig; Porky Pig
First Line: [Picture of Cicero] took his new [picture of a camera] and started out to take some [picture of a pickax]-tures.
Synopsis: Cicero takes pictures until his camera is commandeered by Bugs, in a story told in rebus form.
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Pages: 2
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Finger Fun

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Bugs Bunny
First Line: Make your own Bugs Bunny puppet from a paper bag!
Synopsis: How to make a paper bag hand puppet of Bugs Bunny, using two of your fingers to poke out of the top of a small (lunch size) paper bag to serve as Bugs' long ears.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Caption at the bottom of the second page reads: "Bugs Bunny appears in Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies comic magazine."
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Happy Bugs Floating Head

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Bugs Bunny
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Two-thirds of this back cover is reserved for the logo and ad copy for whichever firm is distributing the issue as a giveaway premium. This space can be blank if no named sponsor. The remaining vertical third of the cover space (nearest to the binding) consists of an upper rectangle containing an illustration of a floating head of Bugs Bunny sporting a happy expression, and a lower rectangle for the "March of Comics" logo.

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