4GEMWORKS BUGS BUNNY EMPORIUM
Four Color 33

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #33 Universal
Grade: 7.0
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
Certification #: 0201614030
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS BUGS BUNNY EMPORIUM
Date Added: 12/7/2012
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Bugs Bunny: Public Nuisance #1 11/43 First Bugs Bunny Four Color appearance

Cover art and all interior art: Carl Buettner

This is tied with one other as the fourth best copy out of thirteen graded to date. It’s scarcity is made obvious in that despite its high guide value, there are just two copies at the top in VF/NM condition. This is relatively easy to find in lower grade but copies fine or better are extremely elusive. I originally bought this ungraded from Heritage auctions as a Fine (6.0).

Table of Contents
1. 1. [Table of Contents]
Bugs Bunny
2. 2. Bugs Bunny---Public Nuisance No. 1
Bugs Bunny
3. 3. Bugs Bunny Tries the Easy Life
Bugs Bunny
4. 4. Bugs Bunny and the Fang-Toothed Bandit
Bugs Bunny
5. 5. ["Wanna Be a Cut-Up, Doc?"]
Bugs Bunny
6. 6. ["That's All, Folks!!"] (Also the back cover of this copy)
7.
Bugs Bunny

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http://www.comics.org/issue/135056/

Here are some additiona tidbits from Wikipedia. They wrongly note that Western Publishing started Bugs Bunny in 1953

Bugs Bunny is an animated cartoon character, best remembered for his starring roles in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of theatrical shorts produced by Warner Bros. during the Golden Age of American animation.[1] His popularity during this era led to his becoming a corporate mascot of the Warner Bros. company. Bugs is an anthropomorphic gray hare or rabbit and is famous for his flippant, insouciant personality, a pronounced New York accent, and his portrayal as a trickster. Bugs has appeared in more films than any other cartoon character and is the ninth most portrayed film personality in the world.[2]
According to Bugs Bunny: 50 Years and Only One Grey Hare, Bugs was born on July 27, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York in a warren under Ebbets Field, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers. In reality, he was created earlier—and by many animators and staff: including Tex Avery, who directed A Wild Hare (1940), an early definitive short, and Robert McKimson, who created the definitive Bugs Bunny character design. According to Mel Blanc, the character's original voice actor, Bugs has a Flatbush accent. Bugs has had numerous catchphrases, the most prominent being a casual "Eh... What's up, doc?", usually said while chewing a carrot.
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After the classic cartoon era
Bugs did not appear in any of the post-1964 Looney Tunes shorts produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises or Format Films, nor did he appear in the lone Looney Tunes production produced by Filmation. He would not appear in new material on-screen again until Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals aired in 1976.
After Mel Blanc died in 1989, Jeff Bergman, Greg Burson, Billy West, and Joe Alaskey became the new voices of Bugs Bunny and many of the other Looney Tunes, each taking turns doing Bugs' voice for various productions over the years.
Bugs has made appearances in animated specials for network television, mostly composed of classic cartoons with bridging material added, including How Bugs Bunny Won the West, and The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special. Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over (1980) contained no vintage clips and featured the first new Bugs Bunny cartoons in 16 years. It opened with "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny", which features a flashback of Bugs as a child thwarting a young Elmer Fudd, while its third and closing short was "Spaced Out Bunny", with Bugs being kidnapped by Marvin the Martian to be a playmate for Hugo, an Abominable Snowman-like character who previously appeared in the 1961 short The Abominable Snow Rabbit. A new Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner short filled out the half hour of this TV special. Compilation films included the independently produced Bugs Bunny: Superstar, using the vintage shorts then owned by United Artists; as well as Warner Bros. efforts The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie, The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie, Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island, Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales and Daffy Duck's Quackbusters. He also made guest appearances in episodes of the 1990s television program Tiny Toon Adventures as the principal of Acme Looniversity and the mentor of Babs and Buster Bunny, and would later make occasional guest cameos on spinoffs Taz-Mania and Animaniacs.
Bugs has had several comic book series over the years. Western Publishing had the license for all the Warner Brothers cartoons, and produced Bugs Bunny comics first for Dell Comics, then later for their own Gold Key Comics. Dell published 58 issues and several specials from 1952 to 1962. Gold Key continued for another 133 issues. DC Comics, the sister/subsidiary company of Warner Bros., has published several comics titles since 1994 that Bugs has appeared in. Notable among these was the 2000 four-issue miniseries Superman & Bugs Bunny, written by Mark Evanier and drawn by Joe Staton. This depicted a crossover between DC's superheroes and the Warner cartoon characters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugs_Bunny
 
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