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Issue: Looney Tunes #189

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Publication Date: July 1957

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Issues: #189 of 81 Issues (95 Printings)

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Variant: 10¢ Cover Price

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Publisher: Flag

Dell

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Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

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Content Items: 11 (6 stories, 1 cover)

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Silver Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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2 Looney Tunes #189 [10¢ Cover Price]

Looney Tunes #189 [15¢ Cover Price]

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Content Items (11 total)

Served by Sombrero

Illustration on Cover, Front

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd

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

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Pages: 1

Sam's Lingo Lessons

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Genres: teen

Feature(s): Seven-Up Presents:

Character(s): Sam; Disk Jockey; Big Brother; Slick Chick

First Line: (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.)

Synopsis: 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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Pages: 1

Notes: 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.

Hawaii or Bust… by Car?

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Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd; swordfish; 1st ship's captain; 1st ship's mate; 2nd ship's captain; 2nd ship's steward

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

Synopsis: 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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Pages: 10

Notes: Dialogue is "Maltese-ian"!

Th-Th-That’s Oil, Folks!

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Porky Pig; Cicero Pig; two real estate swindlers

First Line: Where are we going, Porky...camping?

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

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Pages: 5

"A Flight of Fancy"

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Tweety Bird; Sylvester Pussycat

First Line: 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!".

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

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Pages: 1

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

By the Books

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Tweety Bird; Sylvester Pussycat; Granny

First Line: Us tweety birds just love to take baths and get nice and clean!

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

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Pages: 6

The Grand Sand Castle Coup

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Genres: anthropomorphic, childrens, fantasy

Character(s): Mary Jane; Sniffles; Captain Tristam; mutineer pirates, loyal sailors; Mary Jane's mother (cameo)

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

Synopsis: 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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Pages: 4

Aw, Fer Th' Love'a Birds!

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Daffy Duck; Elmer Fudd; Uncle Wobert

First Line: 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!

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

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Pages: 5

Dad [Mother Too]

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Feature(s): Daisy Manufacturing Co.

First Line: Read Why Daisy is the Right Gun for early training and fun...

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Pages: 1

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.

Summer Fun

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Feature(s): Daisy Manufacturing Co.

First Line: Summertime is Daisy time.

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Pages: 1

Notes: 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.

Juicy Fruit Gum Safety Quiz

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Feature(s): Wrigley's Juicy Fruit Gum

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

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Pages: 1

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.