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Looney Tunes, #189

Published: July 1957

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Served by Sombrero

Story Featuring Bugs Bunny

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Waiter Bugs pours Elmer's drink from his sombrero brim.

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Hawaii or Bust… by Car?

Story Featuring Bugs Bunny

"Open up, Fuddy, ol' buddy! It is I, Bugs Bunny - author, lecturer, and traveler! I await without!"

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Bugs and Elmer set out to be the first to travel from Los Angeles to Hawaii by automobile, courtesy of a paddle-powered, crow’s-nest-equipped, wooden raft to propel Elmer’s car across the ocean. Nature and their own planning deficiencies conspire against them.

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Story Notes

Dialogue is "Maltese-ian"!

Th-Th-That’s Oil, Folks!

Story Featuring Porky Pig

"Where are we going, Porky...camping?"

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Two real estate swindlers trick Porky into buying some desert land by pumping oil into it.

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The Grand Sand Castle Coup

Story Featuring Mary Jane and Sniffles

"I don't know whether to hop on that ship of yours or watch you make this keen sand castle, Mary Jane!"

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There’s a boatload of palace intrigue, when Mary Jane and Sniffles shrink themselves to enter Mary Jane’s sand castle to look for her lost charm bracelet. There, the captain of her tiny model ship is imprisoned by mutineers turned pirates.

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Aw, Fer Th' Love'a Birds!

Story Featuring Daffy Duck

"You're a moocher, that's what you are -- A dwatted moocher, and I'm sick and tired of having you eat me out of house and home!"

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Daffy ingratiates himself with Elmer’s bird-loving “wich Uncle Wobert” (rich Uncle Robert), much to Fudd’s consternation.

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By the Books

Story Featuring Tweety and Sylvester

"Us tweety birds just love to take baths and get nice and clean!"

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Tweety and Sylvester set out to write competing books on how to foil one another.

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"A Flight of Fancy"

Story Featuring Tweety and Sylvester

"It was the Fourth of July, and Tweety Bird sat perched on the window sill, fluttering his tiny golden feathers in the sun and singing, "Tweet! "Tweet! "Tweet!"."

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Tweety uses a Fourth of July skyrocket to try to go to the moon.

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Story Notes

Text story with one 1/4 page illustration; title is in quotes (which is unusual for these text stories)

Dad [Mother Too]

"Read Why Daisy is the Right Gun for early training and fun..."

Story Notes

Illustrated ad for Daisy air rifles offering a free 32 page gun book, 20 page club brochure, and catalog. This ad appears on the final interior page of the comic. Another full page Daisy ad adjoins this one to the right, on the inside back cover, forming an unusual two-page spread.

Juicy Fruit Gum Safety Quiz

"Have some fun! See if you can tell what's wrong with these pictures"

Story Notes

Ad for Wrigley's Juicy Fruit chewing gum that includes four black and white "find the errors" drawings concering summer activities. Part of a series. Color ad, with black and white illustrations, on back cover.

Sam's Lingo Lessons

"(Fun for your next party! Have guests read these panels. Give each 5 minutes to invent one new Lingo line. Award prize for cleverest one.)"

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Fill-in what Disk Jockey would say, Big Brother would say, or Slick Chick would say in reply to comments by Sam. Asked in "What would you say?" form.

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Color ad on inside front cover. Illustrated ad for Seven-Up soft drink featuring teen slang. Part of "Nothing does it like Seven-Up!" series.

Summer Fun

"Summertime is Daisy time."

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Illustrated ad for Daisy air rifles offering a free "Complete Daisy Catalog". Another full page Daisy ad adjoins this one to the left, on the final interior page of the comic, forming an unusual two-page spread. Color ad on inside back cover.