Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Comics #69

This cheerful 1947 Dell issue delivers a delightfully chaotic gas-station gag right on the cover: Porky Pig has accidentally over-inflated what appears to be a enormous round object using an air hose, while a wide-eyed Bugs Bunny gets knocked flat against a red gas pump near the "Free Air" station. Dan Gormley's cover linework captures the rubbery, slapstick energy that made Looney Tunes such a beloved fixture of 1940s pop culture. For a dime, readers were treated to a package of Warner Bros.' finest cartoon stars at their most wonderfully absurd.