Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies #141

Bugs Bunny is up to his usual tricks on this cheerful 1953 Dell cover, gleefully jump-roping with a garden hose he's redirected from a fire hydrant — much to the sputtering fury of Elmer Fudd, who peers over the fence brandishing a shovel while getting thoroughly soaked. Ralph Heimdahl's cover art captures that perfect Looney Tunes energy, with the fence's painted warning — "Keep Out! Pwivate Pwoperty" — making it clear whose yard is getting the better of whom. At a dime for 52 pages, this Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies issue is a warm snapshot of early '50s cartoon comics at their most playfully irreverent.