Bugs Bunny #40

There's that irrepressible rabbit up to his old tricks — on Ralph Heimdahl's cover, Bugs Bunny perches in a tree wearing a red cap and yellow gloves, cheerfully sawing through the very branch he's sitting on while a rope dangles nearby, blissfully unbothered by the inevitable outcome. It's the kind of breezy, self-defeating mischief that made Dell's Bugs Bunny a natural fit for young readers in 1954. Inside, Tony Strobl brings the art to a story titled "Fountain of Youth," promising the wisecracking wabbit in fine, adventurous form.