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Bugs Bunny's Real Name

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From Looney Tunes #41 (Mar. 1945). Art by Tom McKimson. I think kid Bugs having only one buck tooth is adorable.

Written by Thad

April 12th, 2009 at 7:39 pm

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  1. …Wow. That was…very odd.

    I must say, I never had read a Looney Tunes comic until this one. And it’s really odd. The Bugs here doesn’t feel any like the Bugs in the animated shorts. So out of character, or a completely different character, really.

    I have read Barks’ Donald’s stories. There is also a huge difference in that situation, with the Donald in the films being one-dimensional in most of them (at least the latter ones, with Hannah solely directing) and the one in the comics expressing a wide variety of emotions. But while the Donald in the films only shows one side of his personality for the most time, that side was also shown (and expanded) on Barks’ comics, whereas this Bugs has a persona I don’t recall seeing on the shorts.

    …Thanks for the interesting view, Thad.

    Richie

    12 Apr 09 at 10:28 pm

  2. Wow. 2017 South Avenue is now Valley Communications at 100 Valley Drive. Millie would be 81 or 82 years old now, if she’s still out there.

    Daniel

    13 Apr 09 at 3:10 am

  3. I grew up with (and know) a kid named Ormsby in Niagara Falls. I bet anything this was his aunt or cousin’s copy. Weird stuff.

    Thad

    13 Apr 09 at 12:17 pm

  4. Don’t forget Richie, that kids back then only saw *maybe* one or two Bugs Bunny cartoons a year. They didn’t notice that the characters were essentially different.

    rodney

    13 Apr 09 at 5:59 pm

  5. And here I thought Bugs was a nickname for Ben Hardaway Bunny. :-p

    the spectre

    14 Apr 09 at 5:47 am

  6. Great find! George Washington, that was funny…

    FitzgeraldLasVegas

    14 Apr 09 at 12:06 pm

  7. awww wittle bugsy bunnee wabbit

    Mike Matei

    14 Apr 09 at 6:58 pm

  8. That subscription stuff on the back cover is part of the fun of old comics!

    Someday, someone will end up with my old Gold Key comics circa 1968-69 with my name and old address on the subscription label, and say… HEY! That’s the guy who wrote all those letters to Gemstone Disney comics, and dialogued a few stories for them.

    Naaah… more likely they won’t give a shit, and “bargain the dealer down” because the label lessens the condition! My name’ll probably bring it down even more!

    Joe Torcivia

    15 Apr 09 at 8:11 am

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