Bugs Bunny #54

Bugs Bunny hunches over a magnifying glass on this April–May 1957 Dell issue, peering with wide-eyed curiosity at a tiny, wide-eyed figure in a red coat — a delightfully funny image that sets up the "Disappearing Incas" mystery with just the right amount of playful suspense. Phil De Lara's cover art captures Bugs at his most expressive, all gangly limbs and mischievous grin as he scrutinizes his miniature subject. With interior art by Tony Strobl, this one promises the kind of globe-trotting comic adventure that made Dell's Bugs Bunny series such a treat for young readers in the fifties.