Four Color #841

There's a certain charm in watching Elmer Fudd — perched grumpily on a dock in his red jacket and green bowler, fishing rod in hand — while a very smug fish peers up from the water below, completely unbothered by the worms spilling from the overturned bait can beside him. Tony Strobl's cover art captures the eternal, lopsided rivalry between Elmer and the animal kingdom with warmth and gentle humor. At just a dime, this 1957 Dell issue promises the kind of easygoing cartoon fun that made the Looney Tunes comics a staple of midcentury newsstands.