Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Comics #25
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeLooney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Comics #25 stands as one of the earliest Holiday/seasonal showcase issues in the Dell run, distinguished by its Halloween-themed cover — a rare thematic departure in a series that otherwise leaned on character-driven gag covers. Published in November 1943, it arrived in the heart of World War II, when Dell's funny-animal titles were among the most widely circulated comics in America, giving millions of young readers a culturally important touchstone outside superhero fare. The issue belongs to a series that, across its first three years, established in print the full roster of Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes cast — Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and Elmer Fudd — cementing their identities as comic-page personalities as well as animated stars. As a mid-run Golden Age Dell, it also documents the ongoing visual evolution of those characters at a moment when their on-screen designs were still being refined.
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The series was produced through a working partnership between Dell Publishing and Western Printing and Lithographing Company: Western held the Warner Bros. license, handled all editorial production and printing at its facilities, while Dell supplied financing and newsstand distribution — an arrangement that would be formally codified in 1944, the year after this issue appeared. Artists associated with the series' early years included Walt Kelly (who contributed the 'Pat, Patsy and Pete' strip to the book), Roger Armstrong, Chase Craig, and George Storm, though specific creative credits for issue #25 have not been confirmed in available indexed sources. Dell launched the title in 1941 as part of a broader push into licensed funny-animal comics that also encompassed Walt Disney's Comics & Stories and New Funnies.
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- Published November 1943 by Dell as part of the ongoing Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Comics series (issues #1–107 under that exact title).
- Runs 68 pages, full color — a generous page count typical of the early Dell funny-animal format that predates the later industry-wide trim to 52 pages.
- Designated a key issue by Key Collector Comics specifically for its Halloween-themed cover, one of the earliest seasonal/holiday covers in the Dell Looney Tunes run.
- The series as a whole introduced the first comic-book appearances of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and Elmer Fudd in its inaugural 1941–42 issues; by #25 these characters were regular features.
- Produced and printed by Western Printing and Lithographing Company under their Warner Bros. license, with Dell providing distribution — the behind-the-scenes structure that powered all Dell licensed titles of the era.
- Regular contributors to the series during this period included Walt Kelly (later the creator of Pogo), Roger Armstrong, Chase Craig, and George Storm, though issue-level credits for #25 are not confirmed in indexed sources.
- The Dell Looney Tunes series ran a consecutive 246 issues from 1941 to 1962 under several slight title variants, making mid-run issues like #25 part of one of the longest-running licensed humor comics of the Golden Age.
- Neither Dell nor, later, Gold Key Comics ever displayed the Comics Code Authority seal on their Looney Tunes titles, meaning the series technically existed outside the pre-code/post-code regulatory framework that defined most of the industry.
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