Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies #140

Bugs Bunny takes center stage on this bright yellow 1953 Dell cover, dressed in a Native American-style blanket and feathered headdress while tending a small campfire — and apparently conducting a very careful inventory of carrots, ranging from plump and orange to increasingly pale and withered. Ralph Heimdahl's cover art gives Bugs a perfectly contemplative expression, as if this carrot-sorting ritual is serious business. At 52 pages, this cheerful issue offers a generous helping of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies fun for a dime.