Page 1: Petunia's Pampering Parlor's street address is 666. Page 4: Hazel does indeed have a green thumb. In fact, her whole complexion is green.It's the Hip Fab Fun cover. The four stars, top to bottom, are occupied by Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner, and Yosemite Sam.
Witch Hazel is sitting, as for a hair styling and makeover. She has a bat, a spider, a frog, a snake, and some bugs in her hair. She asks Bugs Bunny, "Is it me?" Bugs, who is holding his hands framing her from his point of view, replies, "Poi-fect."
A chase is underway as Hazel runs after the fleeing Bugs, from whom she wants to get 'whisker of rabbit' for her witch's brew. Bugs rounds a corner and zips into Petunia's Pampering Parlor. After Petunia greets him he makes a big deal about his ears, which he rolls up in curlers before bounding under a dryer.
Meanwhile Hazel spots the Parlor and stops in to get a few things. Unfortunately for Petunia and her clientele the Parlor doesn't stock a most desired item. This sets Hazel off and she uses her magic to turn the hair dryers into large Venus flytraps, which send customers fleeing.
Hazel starts looking through the cosmetics, unable to find the shade of blush she desires: deathly pale. Bugs walks in from a back room, disguised, and passes himself off as a makeover artist. Hazel, not missing a golden opportunity, sees that he stays around to give her a makeover.
While helping Hazel into a smock Bugs finds her pocket magic guide and sets about giving a magical makeover. Alas, Bugs' skill as a magician, while impressive, isn't quite as predictable as he'd like, first making Hazel bald, then giving her a decidedly Yosemite Sam look before restoring her and then nearly encasing her in cement. His attempt at giving her elegant nails, gives her claws and the chase is on again.
Bugs pauses just long enough to enchant a mirror and hold it up to Hazel, who sees herself in it as a beautiful young lady. She's so impressed that she leaves, saying she'll tell all her friends of the place.
A couple days later Petunia and Bugs are on the phone with each other. It seems Petunia's business is booming, though the clientele is rather unusual...
Page 1: Petunia's Pampering Parlor's street address is 666. Page 4: Hazel does indeed have a green thumb. In fact, her whole complexion is green.
Page 1: The fire hydrant in the first panel is missing from the second panel. It's back in the last panel on page 10, but not in the original position. Page 10: Since when does Hazel want to be beautiful by normal standards? Page 10: The corner of the Pampering parlor, which was brick on page 1, is now all glass. Also the awning on the side seems to have disappeared.Daffy, er, Ducko Polo, with an entourage, is about to cross the hot Gobi desert. But the entourage has had enough, they've taken Ducko over mountains, sands, and steppes. For while Ducko loves meatballs, everyone else is sick of them and they are quite willing to let Ducko go on with his quest -- to find the perfect food to go with meatballs -- alone. When fierce Mongols approach, they abandon Ducko and his meatballs.
Ducko saves himself by offering his meatballs, but forgets to warn the Mongols about the toothpicks in them. They take him along across the Gobi, to see the Emperor. Ducko does not ride with the Mongols; he's dragged, by his thumbs, behind their horses.
In the Forbidden City, Ducko is presented before the Emperor, Kubla Sam, who takes offense at his now rather lengthy thumbs. The Emperor sends Ducko away to be tortured, but changes his mind and has the explorer cook in the imperial kitchen when told that Ducko makes meatballs. Meatballs are a great treat to Sam who is quite weary of noodles. While his thumbs heal, Ducko plots his escape.
The completion of the Great Wall is cause for celebration, complete with ceremony, dragon dances, fireworks, and a feast. Of course the feast means meatballs and Ducko comes through with some giant sized meatballs with which he bowls over guards and makes his escape. Ducko winds up riding a 'dragon' only to be thrown by it. He lands on a rocket and escapes riding it, taking the imperial noodle recipe with him.
Back in Italy, Ducko has set up a stand for Chinese take-out. He's selling spaghettis and meatballs, of course.
Page 18: There are people reading newspapers, and one person sleeping, on the rooftops. Page 18: One person on a rooftop is reading a newspaper. (I'm not sure if this should be a nit or not...PN) Page 18: A carrot is dangled before a person pulling a rickshaw as if he were an animal needing such enticement to move. Page 18: The horses are shod, yet Mongols did not shoe their horses. Page 19: Straight swords are more European than Asian. Asian swords are generally curved, as shown on page 16. Page 20: An iron stove would be very unusual for the Mongols who did not forge metal. Even their metal weapons were spoils of battle. Page 24: The sign in panel three is in English, not Chinese with a translation box. None of Marco Polo's writings said anything of the Great Wall. Some historians take this as an indication that Marco did not really get all the way to China, but may have only gotten as far as Persia. While Marco Polo is credited with bringing pasta to Italy, this might not be the case. Pasta may have been introduced to Europe by the Arabs. Meatballs getting added to Spaghetti didn't start in Italy or China. (I don't know exactly where this did happen, though I am tempted to say it was in New York...PN)Wile E. sets up an Acme Giant Fly-Swatter, triggered by an electric eye. Cautiously testing by breaking the electric eye's beam with a stick, he finds it works as expected.
The coyote, still being very careful, sets out a plate of free birdseed as Road Runner stops behind him. Wile E. worries for a just moment and Road Runner starts eating the seed, not from the plate, but from the box of seed. The swatter is tripped as the bird's head plumage interrupts the beam of the electric eye...
Page 31: 'The (ow) End' is a cute touch. Page 29, 30: The color registration is off, most noticeably on page 30.The Last Laugh
Four short cartoon strips which seem not to have a theme to them.
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