Issue Details

Issue	#138
Published	April 1953
Cover Price	$0.10
Pages	52
Editing	?
Notes	[Porky teeing off using a basketball instead of a golf ball]

Cover Details

Characters	Bugs Bunny; Porky Pig
Genre	Funny animal; Sports
Letters	Typeset
Notes	[Porky teeing off using a basketball instead of a golf ball]

1 page advertisement "I'm takin' it easy this Easter!"

Characters	The Easter Bunny
Synopsis	Ad for Milky Way candy bars from the Mars Company
Letters	Typeset
Notes	Inside Front Cover

10 page Bugs Bunny story "Bugs Bunny, carnival owner?"

Characters	Bugs Bunny; Porky Pig
Synopsis	First line: "There you are, sonny... That'll be fifteen cents!"
Genre	Funny animal
Letters	Typeset

7 page Porky Pig story "The incredible shrinking pigs"

Characters	Porky Pig; Cicero Pig; Petunia Pig; Sylvester Pussycat; Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd
Synopsis	First line: "Cicero! Shut that thing off! All the n-neighbors are complaining!"
Genre	Funny animal
Letters	Typeset

7 page Elmer Fudd and Daffy story "Elmer's piano playing career"

Characters	Elmer Fudd; Daffy Duck
Synopsis	First line: "I'm an awful flop at this party! I can't play or sing womantic songs!"
Genre	Funny animal
Letters	Typeset

2 page text story "The March lion"

Characters	Bugs Bunny; Porky Pig; Cicero Pig
Genre	Funny animal
Letters	Typeset

6 page Mary Jane and Sniffles story "The Land of the Blue-gray Shadows"

Characters	Mary Jane; Sniffles; Big Blue Boo; Mary Jane's mother
Synopsis	First line: "Mommy! Please put on the light so the shadows won't show!"
Genre	Children; Fantasy; Funny animal
Letters	Typeset
Notes	Big Blue Boo, who lives in the Land of the Blue-gray Shadows, appears to be the source of Mary Jane's magic words

6 page Henery Hawk story "Capturing a jewel thief"

Characters	Henery Hawk; Ollie Owl
Synopsis	First line: "..And now for the questions on last night's homework! Henery..."
Genre	Children; Funny animal
Letters	Typeset

4 page Tweety and Sylvester story "Tweety visits the museum"

Characters	Tweety Bird; Sylvester Pussycat; Granny
Synopsis	First line: "I'm going out shopping, Tweety! You be a good little birdie, and I'll have a surprise for you when I get back!"
Genre	Funny animal
Letters	Typeset

5 page Little Pancho Vanilla story "The bullfighter turned minstrel"

Characters	Little Pancho Vanilla; el señor Pancho Vanilla; la señora Vanilla; the Rich Ranchero
Synopsis	First line: "Ah... A seenging minstrel man!"
Genre	Children
Letters	Typeset

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Hurry! Hurry! Be the first to own the official Dell Comics Club ball point pen"

Characters	Bugs Bunny
Synopsis	Subscription ad for Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies and the Dell Comics Club; U.S.: 12 issues for $1.00; 24 issues for $1.85; 36 issues for $2.70; Canada: $1.20, $2.00, and $3.00; Free with each subscription is a ball point pen
Genre	Funny animal
Letters	Typeset

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Go ahead...you can really pet the fuzzy yellow cat!"

Characters	none
Synopsis	Ad for Whitman Fuzzy Wuzzy Tell-a-Tales books from Whitman Publishing Company
Genre	Children
Letters	Typeset
Notes	Inside Back Cover

1 page advertisement "Gretchen Fraser sparks in ski race"

Characters	Gretchen Fraser
Genre	Sports
Letters	Typeset
Notes	Ad for Wheaties cereal from General Mills