Looney Tunes #23
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeLooney Tunes #23 is a characteristic entry in the long-running DC anthology series that marked the first ongoing, all-comics Looney Tunes title in over a decade — DC having restarted the franchise in 1994 after a twelve-year gap created when Gold Key ceased publication in 1982. The issue's lead story, 'This Isn't Your Life, Daffy Duck!', is a self-aware, meta-comedic piece in which Warner Bros. Studios tries to film Daffy's biography but refuses to cast the duck himself, prompting the whole Looney Tunes ensemble to audition by reenacting his greatest blunders — a clever structural gag that lets the comic showcase the full cast while simultaneously lampooning Hollywood ego. As one of the mid-run issues of a series that ultimately logged 281 issues before ending in 2024, #23 represents the confident, settled voice the anthology had developed by its second year: multi-story, all-ages, and squarely rooted in Warner Bros. cartoon sensibility rather than superhero crossover.
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The DC Looney Tunes series launched in April 1994, made possible by the shared corporate parentage of DC Comics and Warner Bros., and was structured from the start as an anthology delivering multiple short, self-contained stories per issue. By issue #23, cover-dated June 1996, the series had established a reliable stable of writers and artists drawing heavily on animation-industry veterans. Lead writer Jack Enyart brought deep Looney Tunes institutional knowledge to the title, having previously worked on Looney Tunes prime-time TV specials in the early 1980s alongside Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, and Mel Blanc. The Argentine art studio pairing of Horacio Saavedra with Ruben Torreiro, and Eduardo Savid with Horacio Ottolini, was typical of the international art production pipeline DC used throughout the run.
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- Published June 1996 by DC Comics as issue #23 of the ongoing Looney Tunes (Volume 1) series, which launched in April 1994.
- Lead story: 'This Isn't Your Life, Daffy Duck!' — written by Jack Enyart, art by Horacio Saavedra and Ruben Torreiro. Premise: Warner Bros. Studios makes a Daffy biography but denies Daffy the starring role, sending the full Looney Tunes cast to audition by acting out his misadventures.
- Second story: 'Masseuse On the Loose' starring Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam — written by Dana Kurtin, art by Eduardo Savid and Horacio Ottolini.
- Additional short stories in the issue include a Sylvester piece ('Really Good Dumpsters') and 'The Technical Term is Duck,' featuring Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, and Bugs Bunny.
- 32 pages, full color. Part of a multi-story anthology format maintained consistently throughout the series run.
- The DC series that contains this issue ran from 1994 to 2024, concluding after 281 issues — one of the longest-running licensed humor anthology titles in DC's history.
- Jack Enyart, the lead writer, had previously served as writer/editor on Looney Tunes prime-time TV specials in the early 1980s, collaborating directly with Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, and Mel Blanc.
- The DC Looney Tunes series restarted the property after a twelve-year gap in dedicated Looney Tunes comic publishing, following Gold Key's cessation of the title in 1982.
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