Rags Rabbit #15
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeRags Rabbit #15 carries outsized historical weight for a funny-animal title because it contains what MyComicShop's database identifies as the first appearance of Harvey's redesigned, dot-obsessed Little Dot — the same character who headlined her own landmark series beginning the very same month (September 1953). That redesign, which locked in the "Harvey World" house style that would define the publisher for the next three decades, makes this issue a quiet crossroads moment in Harvey Comics history: Rags Rabbit's own series was winding down just as the publisher's signature universe of child-comedy characters was being born around him. The issue also carries a publisher's note from Alfred Harvey announcing the new Harvey 'H' logo, a branding decision that endured for thirty years.
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The series was written and drawn primarily by Marty Taras — the same animator/cartoonist who created Baby Huey at Paramount's Famous Studios — and the title was a continuation of an earlier Harvey series (most likely Babe Ruth Sports Comics), inheriting its numbering at #11 in 1951. Issue #15 also carries interior art contributions from Steve Muffatti, who was simultaneously shaping the definitive visual look of Little Dot. The indicia title shifted with this issue: earlier numbers bore the cover-indicia title 'Rags Rabbit Comics,' while #15 through the final #18 dropped 'Comics' and ran simply as 'Rags Rabbit,' a small but documentable editorial housekeeping change that coincides with the series' final stretch before its March 1954 cancellation.
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- Published July 1953 (some sources date it November 1953 — see Flagged) by Harvey Comics; part of the eight-issue 1951–1954 run (#11–#18).
- Contains the first appearance of Harvey's redesigned, dot-obsessed version of Little Dot, co-occurring with the debut of her self-titled solo series (Little Dot #1, September 1953).
- Includes a publisher's note from Alfred Harvey announcing the new Harvey 'H' logo, which remained the publisher's branding mark for roughly thirty years.
- Art by both Marty Taras (Rags Rabbit's creator) and Steve Muffatti (the artist who developed Little Dot's defining 'Harvey World' visual style).
- Story contents include multiple Rags Rabbit strips ('Auto Mech-Maniac,' 'Bear Facts,' 'Musclin In') alongside the Little Dot short, a Nutty Squirrel feature, and puzzle pages.
- Beginning with this issue, the indicia title drops 'Comics' and runs as plain 'Rags Rabbit' (issues 11–14 had read 'Rags Rabbit Comics').
- Rags Rabbit himself debuted in Nutty Comics #5 (1946), created by animator/cartoonist Marty Taras, who is also credited as the creator of Baby Huey at Paramount's Famous Studios.
- Stories from the broader Rags Rabbit run were later reprinted in Tastee-Freez Comics (1957), Harvey Hits (1957), Hot Stuff Sizzlers (1960), and the digest Harvey Wiseguys (1987–1988), demonstrating the material's recycling across Harvey's promotional and anthology output.
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Reprinted in Wonderland of Fun #1 (1957), Little Dot #45 (1959), Hot Stuff, the Little Devil #34 (1961), Playful Little Audrey #29 (1961), Spooky #57 (1961), Richie Rich #7 (1961), Spooky #72 (1963), Playful Little Audrey #49 (1963), Little Dot's Uncles & Aunts #9 (1964), Hot Stuff Sizzlers #18 (1964), Baby Huey and Papa #32 (1967), Spooky Spooktown #22 (1967), Richie Rich #69 (1968), Spooky Spooktown #28 (1969), Little Audrey TV Funtime #22 (1969), Richie Rich Success Stories #26 (1969), Richie Rich #96 (1970), Little Audrey TV Funtime #29 (1970), Richie Rich Millions #47 (1971), Richie Rich Success Stories #39 (1971), Spooky Spooktown #45 (1972), Hot Stuff, the Little Devil #113 (1972), Richie Rich Bank Book #9 (1974), Little Dot #R1523 (1985) + 3 more
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