Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Comics #77
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeLooney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Comics #77 is a representative Golden Age installment of Dell's long-running Warner Bros. anthology — the series that first brought Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, and their cohorts to the printed page. Falling in the thick of the run's most creatively active stretch, issues like #77 sustained monthly anthology storytelling for an audience that had only ever seen these characters on theater screens, helping establish them as literary (if comedic) characters capable of carrying ongoing print narratives. The series as a whole documented the gradual visual standardization of the Looney Tunes cast, and mid-run issues are a record of that evolution in character design and comedic voice. No landmark first appearances have been confirmed for this specific issue across available sources.
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Dell published the series from 1941 onward under an arrangement with Western Printing and Lithographing Company, which held the Warner Bros. cartoon-character rights; Western handled the bulk of the editorial and production work while Dell distributed and published. By 1948 the series was a stable, monthly 52-page, full-color anthology priced at ten cents, produced by a rotating stable of Western Publishing studio artists — contributors to surrounding issues include Roger Armstrong, Tom McKimson, Ralph Heimdahl, and Don Gunn, among others, though individual creator credits for #77 specifically could not be confirmed from available sources. Dell and Gold Key notably never carried the Comics Code Authority seal, meaning their books — including this one — were never formally subject to the post-1954 regulatory regime that reshaped the rest of the American comics industry.
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- Published March 1948 by Dell Publishing Co. as part of the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Comics series (1941–1955, issues 1–107 under this title variation).
- 52 pages, full color, with a cover price of ten cents — standard specifications for the Dell anthology run at this point.
- Sits within the 'Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Comics' title phase (issues 1–107), after which the series was briefly retitled before returning to this banner for issues 154–165.
- The Dell series ran a total of 246 consecutively numbered issues across several minor title variations, concluding in 1962 when Western Printing ended its agreement with Dell and launched Gold Key Comics.
- By the late 1940s Dell was the largest comic book publisher in America, and this title was a cornerstone of that output — meaning print runs for issues like #77 were substantial by the standards of the era.
- The anthology format typical of surrounding issues featured multiple short stories spotlighting Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Petunia Pig, Henery Hawk, Sniffles and Mary Jane, and Sylvester, often in standalone comedic scenarios mirroring the gag structure of the Warner theatrical shorts.
- Neither Key Collector Comics, the Grand Comics Database, nor any other key-issue database identifies #77 as carrying a first appearance or other landmark narrative distinction.
- Dell and Gold Key, uniquely among major American comics publishers, never adopted the Comics Code Authority seal — so this issue, like every Dell Looney Tunes comic, was never categorized as 'pre-code' because the publisher never subsequently used the code.
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