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Looney Tunes, #242

Published: December 1961

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Issue Contents:
Foot Charmer

Story Featuring Bugs Bunny

Storyline

Dressed as an Indian fakir, Bugs "snake-charms" his own foot.

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Trampoline Time

Story Featuring Porky Pig

Storyline

Cicero bounces all over the couch, but lies placid and still on his trampoline.

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Story Notes

Pantomime. Black and white on inside front cover.

Peekaboo Bunny

Story Featuring Bugs Bunny

"Amazing! Simply incredible! No authority has ever reported anything like this!"

Storyline

A naturalist becomes fascinated with the complexity, furnishings, and amenities of Bugs’ rabbit hole, vs. that of ordinary rabbits, and installs a one-way glass through which he and his colleagues can observe the bunny in his (un)natural habitat. Bugs agrees at first, but quickly tires of the intrusions and decides to take action.

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Carpenter Cut-Up

Story Featuring Porky Pig

"Isn't it a beauty, Cicreo?"

Storyline

Competing do-it-yourself carpenters Porky and Sam have an enthusiastic but good-natured rivalry… until Porky accidently saws Sam’s newly-made, shiny-finished wooden table in half! …Unless fiery short-attention-span-driven Sam is quickly distracted, the sawdust will fly! Porky’s method of distraction only makes things worse.

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Foiled in Oil

Story Featuring Bugs Bunny

"Bugs Bunny sleepily climbed to the entrance of his rabbit hole to answer the loud call of an irate Elmer Fudd."

Storyline

Bugs becomes suspicious when Elmer suddenly strikes oil in his backyard, digging only with a pick and shovel.

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Into the Fire

Story Featuring Tweety and Sylvester

"Gwanny's gone, and soon the fire will go out! Then I'll have a fwigid Puddy Tat to contend with!"

Storyline

Despite his best efforts to keep Sylvester warm on a very cold night, Tweety only succeeds in making the cat colder.

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The Backward Beeps

Story Featuring Beep Beep the Road Runner

"Pop, we have an idea! If you don't think it's strange, instead of him chasing us, let's chase him for a change!"

Storyline

Beep Beep and the boys turn the tables on Wile E. Coyote, by arranging things so that they wind up chasing him.

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Roaming Home

Story Featuring Daffy Duck

"Woo Woo! Woo Woo! Heh! I'm gonna bother old Fuddsy today!"

Storyline

To get away from Daffy, Elmer decides to move his house to a remote lot in the country - on a trailer, towed by a truck. What could possibly go wrong?

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Story Notes

Dialogue is "Maltese-ian"!

Quick Mix

Story Featuring Bugs Bunny

"SCREECH! Splish! Splash!"

Storyline

A sudden stop at a traffic light causes Bugs to mix house paint colors in a most unconventional way.

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Story Notes

Pantomime. Shares top half of page with the "Dell Comics Pledge to Parents".

A Pledge to Parents

"See "Notes" below."

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Story Notes

Dell Comics' own version of "The Comics Code", in response to the politically motivated attacks upon comic books in the 1950s. (Text follows) "The Dell trademark is, and always has been, a positive guarantee that the comic magazine bearing it contains only clean and wholesome entertainment. The Dell Code eliminates entirely, rather than regulates, objectionable material. That's why when your child buys a Dell Comic you can be sure it contains only good fun. 'DELL COMICS ARE GOOD COMICS' is our only credo and constant goal." Shares top half of page with Bugs Bunny "Quick Mix".

Good Riddance

Story Featuring Daffy Duck , Story Featuring Elmer Fudd

"Idea! (thought balloon)"

Storyline

Elmer extends the staircase banister Daffy repeatedly slides down, depositing the duck into the deep dark basement.

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Story Notes

Pantomime. Black and white on inside back cover.

Brand New! Schwinn 5-Speed Corvette

"The most thrilling new bike you've ever seen!"

Story Notes

Ad for the Schwinn 5-Speed Corvette bicycle from Arnold, Schwinn & Company with "Norman Rockwell-like" illustrations of four boys and the Schwinn 5-Speed Corvette bicycle outside on a winter's day. A free bike catalog is offered by mail. Color ad on back cover.

Meet Tubby, the Whale

"Let me spout you a question - Have you tried Tubble - the new fun bubble soap?"

Story Notes

Ad for Tubble Bubble Bath Soap that makes bath bubbles in three colors - blue, red, and green. Comes in powder or liquid form, in 6-packs or 9-packs. Lower half of page.

Dell Trading Post

"Only Dell Comics offer these outstanding premium values!"

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Story Notes

Dell Comics promotion for various prizes in exchange for a combination of money and the top cover strips from Dell Comics. The combinations vary by the nature and value of the prizes. Quote: "Cut off the top strip of each Dell Comic cover. Be sure the strip includes the name of the comic and the new Dell Comics seal. When you have enough cover strips for the item(s) you want, put them in an envelope together with the required amount of money and the coupon at the right." Prizes displayed in the ad are: “Regulation Football”, Sensational Gum Bank”, "Three Way Desk Set", "Magic Puzzle Kit”, “Giant Space Map", "Kodak Brownie Bullet Camera”, “Shaggy Dog" (stuffed animal - not the Disney film version), "Secret Seal Ring", and "Initialed Slave Bracelet". Example illustrations of the "Dell Comics top cover strips" for issues of Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories and Huckleberry Hound are pictured. The ad covers both middle pages of the centerfold.