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Christmas Funnies #7 and 183

181 and 182

The covers really have been the Bugs & Elmer show for a while now, haven't they? Bugs Bunny's Halloween Fun Trick 'N' Treat #4 (not quite Blackstone the Magician Detective Fights Crime, but it's up there!) and 180:

This one has a long tear on the back cover, but is otherwise a very nice looking copy in my opinion:

178 and 179. Interesting that they did baseball covers twice in one year...

Vacation Funnies 6 and 177

It is a fun cover. Onward! 175 and 176. The 175 is well timed for this week!

173 and 174

171 and 172. I love Elmer's expression on the 172, it's like he knows he should be angry but isn't 100% sure for some reason.

And, onward! Christmas Party 6; why this one was a Party rather than Funnies is anybody's guess; and 170

Trick 'N' Treat Halloween Fun 3 and 169. I know we just saw a much better copy of the Halloween #3, but including my copy for completeness sake and to show its spot in the continuity:

167 and 168

I like telling the stories on the handful of books where I have stories worth telling. :-) 165 and 166

164 and Vacation Funnies 5 from the same month:

162 and 163. The 163 is the first issue of Looney Tunes I ever got, and in fact the first 10 cent book I ever got. I may even have gotten it before I ever got a 12 cent book, making it the first book published before I was born that I ever owned. Whatever the case, it was gotten VERY early in my collecting days. I traded for it from a friend who had gotten a small collection of old books from his uncle; it was only 50 or so books but it had some gems, including the 163 and a Bugs Bunny 77 I traded from him at the same time. (I can't remember what I traded TO him, but they were newer books). Stuff I wasn't able to get from him included a Green Lama 6 and some Strange Adventures with Deadman; although I did get to read the books. Even though I had discovered comic shops existed at that point, there wasn't a lot of 50's or earlier material to be had at the ones I had been to, and what they did have was way out of my junior high allowance budget. I don't think getting the 163 was as influential on me in the long run as getting the 48 a few months later was. Trading books with somebody who had gotten them from a family member was a one-off bit of luck, not me learning I actually could try to collect these things. But still, actually owning a 10 cent comic? That blew my mind, and I can still remember how it felt. That day, that book had all the heft I now get from holding a book like Mad #1 or FC #178 or Animal Comics #1 in my hand. Not the history of a specific book like those other three; but the history of all comics, that I finally had a connection to.

160 and 161

158 and 159. I love the gag on the 158, it feels like a joke they could have used in the cartoons quite easily. Or possibly they did and I'm not recalling it...

157 and Christmas Funnies 5, from the same month. As I was suggesting earlier, it seems possible the Christmas book pushed the Halloween book off the stands quickly.

Glad to hear it, I'm having fun posting books here! Now where were we before the fresh batch derailed me a day... Oh, yes. 156 and Halloween Parade 2, from the same month. I love the painted Halloween covers...

And the last two from today's batch:

And a couple more:

And, I will not be posting another lot of Looney Tunes covers today. Posting of those will resume tomorrow. Instead, for today I present a small lot of fresh in the mail today Porky Pig covers:

The store I went to the few months I was stuck in Biloxi in 1995 had a stack of several of them; at not too high a price. I remember being quite tempted but I just had no way to store or transport the dang thing. But the stack suggests to me there may have been at least a small find at some point.

Found in the wild a couple weeks ago, cheap enough that I didn't even realize the IFC/IBC/BC were blank until I got it home. No writing or cut-outs or other damage other than normal wear:

154 and 155