Price: 0.60 USD
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1984-03-01
Editing: Del Connell (editor); Larry Mayer (art director)

[How to Make a Daffy Duck Dizzy]

Daffy Duck / cover / 1 page


  • Genre:anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters:
Daffy Duck
Synopsis:
Daffy spins out of his final issue on a giant top.
This issue has 1 variant

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

Final issue of the series.

No interior ads in this issue. Ads are limited to inside and back covers.

No cover date appears on cover or in indicia. New stories inside bear a 1983 year of copyright. Reprinted stories bear 1966 and 1959 years of copyright, per their original printing.

One of a small number of Whitman issues published at the very end of Western Publishing's run as a comic book publisher to print the address of its New York office: "Western Publishing Company, Inc., 850 Third Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022."

On-sale (print) date from The Comic Reader #217.

Original Information for index from Jared Prophet.

Whitman Comics; Super Goof / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page

Pond, Sweet Pond

Daffy Duck / comic story / 7 pages


  • Genre:anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters:
Daffy Duck; Cicero Pig; Cicero's friend; Elmer Fudd; chemist; grocer; robber; various shady characters; big tough guy
Synopsis:
A drum containing "Chemical X-13", a growth formula, falls from a chemist's truck and into Daffy's pond. Fish, frogs, and turtles suddenly grow to large size, including Daffy himself. Daffy takes advantage of his increased size by going into the tough part of town to push some "big galoots" around. It works... for a while.
Reprints (1)

The Banana Bandit

Daffy Duck / comic story / 7 pages


  • Genre:anthropomorphic-funny animals; detective-mystery; humor
Characters:
Daffy Duck (as detective Armchair Daffy); sewer-hiding crook; Second Story Stokes; holdup victim; banana-eating robber
Synopsis:
Detective Armchair Daffy corners a suspected holdup man, only to find nothing more than a few dollar bills, a ring of keys, and a partially-eaten banana in his possession.
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Part of the "Armchair Daffy" sub-series, where Daffy solves crimes while riding around on a wheeled, motorized armchair. Writer Vic Lockman's inspiration for such a comfy mobile chair likely came from his own series of stories written for Walt Disney's Goofy, under the umbrella title "Goofy and his Goof-Kart" in Four Color (Dell, 1942 Series) #1201 (August-October 1961). https://www.comics.org/issue/16593/

Alternately, per Merlin Haas: "Armchair Daffy may also be a take on the "Ironside" TV series (1967-1975), which featured Raymond Burr as a detective in a wheelchair."

King on a Fling

Daffy Duck / comic story / 4 pages


  • Genre:anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters:
Daffy Duck; Elmer Fudd; King Quacky; King Quacky's guards and attendants; Count Crow; Count Crow's minions
Synopsis:
A great storm accidentally buffets a flying Daffy all the way to the duck kingdom of Duckvia, where the bored King Quacky trades places with him prince-and-the-pauper-duck style. As king even Daffy tires of the overindulgent royal treatment and escapes his gilded cage of a castle, only to run into his enemy Count Crow.
Reprints (2)

Daffy and the Fox Fixer

Daffy Duck / comic story / 5 pages


  • Genre:anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters:
Daffy Duck; Tubby (gray duck); other panicked gray ducks; fox
Synopsis:
Daffy learns that the fox has a new secret weapon... hypnosis. Daffy also tries to hypnotize the fox, but the fox is better at it than he is. Daffy beats him by using a mirror so that the fox hypnotizes himself. Daffy then convinces him that he is a June bug so that he will be afraid of the ducks.
Reprints (2)

Indexer Notes

Dialogue and situations are "Maltese-ian"!

Daffy Duck / comic story / 4 pages


  • Genre:anthropomorphic-funny animals; western-frontier; humor
Characters:
Daffy Duck (as Tin Pan Daffy); Lightning (Daffy's burro); kid with bean shooter; various western townspeople; sheriff; Dart Boord (stagecoach robber); other bandits
Synopsis:
Peddler Tin Pan Daffy unexpectedly finds himself driving a stagecoach... with no passengers and before its valuable cargo has been loaded.
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Part of the "Tin Pan Daffy" western sub-series, where Daffy travels the old west in a burro-drawn wagon, peddling tin pans.

For this story "Tin Pan Daffy" is spelled "Tinpan Daffy".

Spring Has Spring

Daffy Duck / comic story / 4 pages


  • Genre:anthropomorphic-funny animals; detective-mystery; humor
Characters:
Daffy Duck (as detective Armchair Daffy); Mr. McBuck; butler; various party guests; security guard; Steelheart (security guard's dog); diamond thief
Synopsis:
An uncoiled spring in the seat of Daffy's armchair, helps him solve the locked room mystery of the vanishing Dazzle Diamond.
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Part of the "Armchair Daffy" sub-series, where Daffy solves crimes while riding around on a wheeled, motorized armchair. Writer Vic Lockman's inspiration for such a comfy mobile chair likely came from his own series of stories written for Walt Disney's Goofy, under the umbrella title "Goofy and his Goof-Kart" in Four Color (Dell, 1942 Series) #1201 (August-October 1961). https://www.comics.org/issue/16593/

Alternately, per Merlin Haas: "Armchair Daffy may also be a take on the "Ironside" TV series (1967-1975), which featured Raymond Burr as a detective in a wheelchair."

[I'm Fallin' Over... A Four-Leaf Clover...]

Daffy Duck / comic story / 1 page


  • Genre:anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters:
Daffy Duck
Synopsis:
A series of mishaps resulting from painter Daffy's falling from a scaffold, results in his finding a four-leaf clover.
Reprints (2)

Indexer Notes

Our unofficial title is a parody of the song "I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover", a tune that Warner Bros. composer Carl Stalling worked into different Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons.

On final interior page of the comic.

Whitman Comics; Daffy Duck / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page

Meet Your Favorite Comic Characters and Enjoy Exciting Adventure in... Whitman Comics.

Whitman Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page

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