Animaniacs #24
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeAnimaniacs #24 is a solid mid-run example of the DC licensed series doing what it did best: building entire issues around a single comedic location or concept, in this case Brooklyn. The issue deploys all three of the book's major recurring casts — the Warners, the Goodfeathers, and Pinky and the Brain — in separate Brooklyn-themed stories, demonstrating the anthology format that mirrored the structure of the television show and kept the comic feeling tonally authentic. It also showcases the series' habit of embedding affectionate DC Universe in-jokes directly into Warner Bros. material: Wakko dressing as Batman and lighting the Bat-Signal while serving as a baseball batboy is exactly the kind of cross-property gag that made the DC imprint a fitting home for the book. As a mid-series issue published about halfway through the comic's 59-issue run, it represents the creative stride the series had hit by early 1997, before the later editorial restructuring that absorbed Pinky and the Brain's solo title.
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The Animaniacs comic was produced by Warner Bros. Worldwide Publishing and published by DC Comics, launching in March 1995 as a direct extension of the Steven Spielberg-produced animated series that had debuted in 1993. The series was structured as an anthology in print just as the show was on television, with multiple short stories per issue spotlighting different character groups. By issue #24 (cover-dated April 1997), the series was deep into its confident middle period, releasing monthly while the animated show was still airing on Kids' WB!. Specific writer and penciller credits for issue #24 were not catalogued in the sources consulted, which is a known gap in online documentation for this run.
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- Cover-dated April 1997; part of DC Comics' Animaniacs Vol. 1, which ran for 59 issues from 1995 to 2000.
- The issue is organized as a Brooklyn-themed anthology: all stories are set in or around Brooklyn, New York.
- The Goodfeathers wraparound story, titled 'Brooklyn Birds,' features Bobby, Pesto, and Squit taking their girlfriends (the Girlfeathers) on a tour of Brooklyn landmarks.
- A Warner siblings story sends Yakko, Wakko, and Dot back in time to help the Brooklyn Dodgers win the 1955 World Series — the franchise's only championship before moving to Los Angeles.
- Wakko appears dressed as Batman during the Dodgers story, and also lights the Bat-Signal in response to coach-player signals — an in-joke made possible by DC Comics being both publisher of the comic and owner of the Batman character.
- A Pinky and the Brain story has the Brain attempting to seize control of the Brooklyn Bridge as a financing scheme for his latest world-domination device: an inflatable bustle.
- The series was produced by Warner Bros. Worldwide Publishing and published by DC Comics as a licensed adaptation of the 1993 animated television series.
- The comic was available in both direct-sale (comic shop) and newsstand editions, as was standard for DC's mid-1990s output.
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