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Issue: Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Comics #63
Publication Date: January 1947
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Issues: #63 of 107 Issues (111 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
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Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Company Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/29/1946
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 1, Part 2, Nos. 1&2, Periodicals, 1946-1947.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Christmas Grocery List

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, childrens
Character(s): Bugs Bunny
Synopsis: Bugs writes his list for Santa, asking for things a bunny would eat.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Bugs Bunny's Christmas Basket

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, childrens
Character(s): Bugs Bunny; Porky Pig
First Line: "Hooray! Two weeks from today is Christmas!" Bugs Bunny chortled gaily, rushing into Porky Pig's house one snowy afternoon.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.75
Disclose Notes: Black, white, and red on inside front and back covers.
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Bitten by the Acting Bug

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, childrens
Character(s): Bugs Bunny; Petunia Pig; Beaky Buzzard; Elmer Fudd; Porky Pig; town sheriff; two phony movie producers
First Line: Oh, what is so rare as a day in June!
Synopsis: Two crooks, posing as movie producers, plan to rob the town blind while the populace is blindly distracted by stardom and acting ambitions.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
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Captives of The Frost King

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, childrens
Character(s): Sniffles; Mary Jane; Mary Jane's mother; The Frost King; various citizens of Frostland; Autumn Elf
First Line: Better play in the house, Mary Jane!
Synopsis: Sniffles takes a shrunken Mary Jane to Frostland, a land of ice and snow found beyond a little door inside Mary Jane's kitchen refrigerator. There they are imprisoned and sentenced by the Frost King to hard labor in the hailstone mines, for the crime of asking for heat.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Title logo actually says "Sniffles and Mary Jane". Ralph Heimdahl credit from Alberto Becattini (2020).
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The Great Christmas Gift Rift

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, childrens
Character(s): Porky Pig; Bugs Bunny; Petunia Pig; Pansy Pig; department store saleswoman; Mr. Bumpus (department store owner); bulldog
First Line: Here comes Porky! I'll wait'll he gets by, an' then I'll let him have it!
Synopsis: Porky and Petunia have a big misunderstanding over the nature of Porky's Christmas gift for Petunia.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11.8
Disclose Notes: Story is interrupted at the bottom right of page 7 by a vertical Statement of Ownership of about 20% of the total page space. Roger Armstrong credit from Alberto Becattini (2020).
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Statement of The Ownership, Management, Circulation Etc.

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.2
Disclose Notes: Statement of Ownership for October 1, 1946. No circulation figures appear as part of this report. Published vertically, occupying about 20% of the lower right page space on page 7 of the Porky Pig story - interrupting that story.
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The Magic Show No-Go!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, childrens
Character(s): Henery Hawk; Ollie Owl; Mr. Henery K. Hawk, Sr.; Mr. Oliver Owl, Sr.; Mrs. Henery K. Hawk, Sr.; Mother Hen; three little chicks; fox
First Line: Jeepers! I'd sure like to go to that!
Synopsis: Henery fails at every attempt to earn 25-cents to see a magic show, then turns his attentions to catching some baby chicks posing as a baby sitter.
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Pages: 8
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The Official Worrier

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, childrens
Character(s): Elmer Fudd; Bugs Bunny; Porky Pig; Mister Blowtop (Elmer's boss)
First Line: 'Smatter, doc? You look worried!
Synopsis: Bugs talks his way into the job as Elmer's "Official Worrier". Elmer's worries are only beginning.
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In Content Item: FlagBugs Bunny's Vacation Funnies #5 published June 1955
as The Official Worrier [Story on Interior Page(s)]retitled, redrawn and partially rewritten version with Bugs Bunny replaced by Daffy Duck
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Pages: 8
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Give Them Bugs Bunny All Year 'Round!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Dell Comics; Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Comics
Character(s): Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd; Porky Pig
First Line: Special Christmas Offer
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.25
Disclose Notes: Ad offering one, two, and three year subscriptions to Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies at a discount off the newsstand price - $1.00 for one year, $1.75 for two years, and 2.50 for three years. "Attractive gift card goes with each subscription." Also free, an 8x10 color picture of Bugs Bunny and three "colorful picture stamps". Color ad on back cover, but with two order blanks on bottom inside of back cover.

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