Price: 0.12 USD
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1965-07-22
Editing: Chase Craig (managing editor); Del Connell (editor); Tom McKimson (art director)

[The Rocketing Radish]

Bugs Bunny / cover / 1 page


  • Genre:anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters:
Bugs Bunny; Porky Pig
Synopsis:
With Porky at the controls of "The Rocketing Radish", Bugs uses the exhaust stack of the compact rocket ship to cook up some bacon and eggs.
Reprints (1)

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

Cover code: 10070-509. On-sale date from 1965 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

There Are Giants At Your Comics Dealer

Gold Key Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page

The Rocketing Radish

Bugs Bunny / comic story / 18 pages


  • Genre:anthropomorphic-funny animals; science fiction; humor
  • Job Number:B. B. #101-657
Characters:
Bugs Bunny; Porky Pig; editor of "Future Comics"; artist of "Future Comics"; rocket ship thief; various members of the rocket ship research facility; various members of the space police
Synopsis:
Comic book fan Bugs is consumed with curiosity about "...how these comic book drawers know how things are gonna be five hundred years from now". He and Porky pay a visit to the offices of "Future Comics" and meet an artist who has discovered a "window to the future", and who simply adapts what he sees through said window to his comics. Impulsive Bugs and a reluctant Porky slip through the window and become involved with the theft of an experimental compact rocket ship called "The Rocketing Radish".
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

"Reprinted by popular demand".

In the original printing, Bugs referred to the year as being "1953". For this reprint, the year has been updated to "1965".

A rare-for-the-time "meta-type" comic book story about the comic book industry, and the type of comics prevalent in the 1940s - mid-1950s with titles like "Future Comics" and "Terrific Comics".

Per the story, comic books are alive, well, and still quite popular in this particular version of the future, as evidenced by a number of (literal) "rocket scientists" seated on a bench reading a stack of them.

Nice Little Touches: In the future, "Future Comics" has been renamed "Future Future Comics", and a future woodpecker has a rotating drill bit for a beak.

At the (present day) offices of "Future Comics", Bugs and Porky are advised by the editor to "follow the doodles on the walls" to reach the artist's area - and, sure enough, copious doodles line the corridors and stairwells leading the pair to their destination. Can those many, many doodles mean that famed "margin-doodler" Sergio Aragonés may have roamed those halls?

[Lumberjack Bullwinkle]

Cheerios; Rocky & Bullwinkle / comics-form advertising / 1 page

Trix Cereal; Trix Rabbit / comics-form advertising / 0.75 page

You Get More Adventure and Action

Gold Key Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.25 page

The Big Chase

Tweety and Sylvester / text story / 1 page


  • Genre:anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters:
Tweety Bird; Sylvester Pussycat; Granny; lots of mice
Synopsis:
In order to help Sylvester keep his home, Tweety gathers some mice for him to catch and prove his usefulness. Unfortunately, Tweety gathers too many mice for Sylvester to handle.
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

New story.

The Messy Messenger

Daffy Duck / comic story / 4 pages


  • Genre:anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters:
Daffy Duck; Daniel Duck; other working ducks; employment agent; two bike messengers; messenger service dispatcher; Mr. Deflop (artist); guy eating hot dog; pedestrian; managers of the "Dainty Wallpaper Company"
Synopsis:
Serious working ducks look down upon Daffy for being a "lazy loafer". Daffy takes their disdain to heart, and joins a bike messenger service with the advantage of being able to fly.

Indexer Notes

New story.

[Binky Bunny's Visit]

Bugs Bunny / comic story / 6 pages


  • Genre:anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters:
Bugs Bunny; Binky Bunny (Bugs' nephew); Porky Pig; Elmer Fudd; Daffy Duck
Synopsis:
Bugs' aggressively enthusiastic little nephew Binky Bunny comes to visit, with his head full of the notions Uncle Bugs has fed the tyke in his letters - brave, handsome, clever, a master heckler, etc. Can Bugs live up to his own hype? ...And, to make matters worse for Bugs, Elmer Fudd just happens to have one of his better and more effective nights as a rabbit router.
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

"Reprinted by popular demand".

100 Little Dolls All for $1.00

100 Little Dolls / advertisement / 0.5 page

A Laugh a Minute with The Cuckoo Bird!

Cocoa Puffs; Cuckoo Bird / comics-form advertising / 0.5 page

Boys, Girls, Men, Women

Wallace Brown Greeting Cards / advertisement / 1 page

Nationally Famous Prizes at No Cost to You!

Junior Sales Club of America Cards / advertisement / 1 page

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