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Bugs Bunny

Bugs Bunny

328 appearances Β· Golden Age Β· 1941–2025 Β· 9 key issues
Who is Bugs Bunny?

Bugs Bunny is the wisecracking, carrot-chomping rabbit star of Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes cartoons, whose cool confidence and quick wit let him outwit hunters, monsters, and rivals alike. Dell brought the character to comics beginning in 1941.

Few comic characters can claim a Golden Age debut and still be gracing new pages over eight decades later, but Bugs Bunny is exactly that kind of enduring icon β€” first hopping into print in Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Comics #1 back in 1941, with Win Smith among his earliest comics collaborators. Across 315 catalog appearances spanning an extraordinary 84 years under DC's banner, this wisecracking rabbit has headlined his own series, anchored Looney Tunes, and shared the page with an all-star roster of cartoon legends β€” Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Sylvester, and Petunia Pig among them. With nine key issues to his name, Bugs isn't just a pop-culture touchstone; he's a genuine piece of comics history, the kind of character whose earliest appearances belong in any serious Golden Age collection.

Teams & affiliations
Looney Tunes
β˜… First appearance
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Comics #1
Aug 1941

Trivia

  • Dell launched Bugs Bunny's comic-book career not with a solo title but with Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Comics #1, a landmark issue that simultaneously marked the first comic-book appearances of Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and Elmer Fudd.sunilslists.com
  • Don R. Christensen has written more of Bugs Bunny's comics than any other writer in our catalog β€” 32 issues.

Top series

Covers through the years β€” 1941–2019

Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Comics #1 β˜… 1941
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Comics #1
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies #120 β˜… 1951
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies #120
Bugs Bunny #37 1954
Bugs Bunny #37
Looney Tunes #227 1960
Looney Tunes #227
Walt Disney Uncle Scrooge #78 β˜… 1968
Walt Disney Uncle Scrooge #78
Walt Disney Uncle Scrooge #143 1977
Walt Disney Uncle Scrooge #143
Cracked #241 1988
Cracked #241
Action Comics #649 1990
Action Comics #649
Space Jam #[nn] 1996
Space Jam #[nn]
Lab Rats #4 2002
Lab Rats #4
Looney Tunes #150 2007
Looney Tunes #150
Looney Tunes #217 2014
Looney Tunes #217
Looney Tunes #246 2019
Looney Tunes #246

Appearances (301–328 of 328, oldest first)

Aquaman (2012)
#7
Looney Tunes Greatest Hits (2016)
#2
Legion of Super-Heroes / Bugs Bunny Special (2017)
#1
Comic Book History of Animation (2020)
#4
Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)
Image! 30th Anniversary Anthology (2022)
#12
Multiversus: Collision Detected (2024)
Batman by Tom King (2024)
#1
Omar Super-Book of Comics (1944)
#2
Bugs Bunny omnibus (1984)
#3
Bugs Bunny (1952)
#13
Four Color (1947)