The inside edge of the first O in Looney is not colored.The title style has changed for this issue. In place of the usual Looney Tunes are the words Looney Tunes Presents across the very top and under that line, in letters of slightly varying size, is the title: The Looney Zone.
A black and white Bugs Bunny, wearing a baggy suit and standing like Rod Serling, welcomes the reader to the Looney Zone with an introduction drawn from The Twilight Zone. Through the door is starry space with various items, in color, floating. The items are: A flying saucer, two round cartoon bombs (lit), Daffy Duck in a straightjacket, a pan of free birdseed with sign, an anvil crumbling in half, a mallet, a carrot, the characters #!@?! followed by a skull with eyes, and an empty birdcage.
The inside edge of the first O in Looney is not colored.
The credits for this issue were accidentally cut by the printer.
The titles for the opening and closing story sequences aren't listed in the comic, but this seems to be by design.
Marvin has crashed outside a small diner, the same diner at which Daffy's tour bus has stopped. Two law officers follow tracks to the diner holding the occupants there until they find out which one of them is an alien. Daffy sees Marvin and tries to point him out to the officers who mistake the beaked one for the alien. As Daffy is carried off, Marvin inquires about spacecraft repair.
Page 1: The hostess' sleeve frill and collar are colored like the background in the second panel. These are white for the rest of the story.Penelope drives a convertible through the country, stopping at a lone gas station and mailing a letter. She rests against a pole, unaware of the wet paint sign, and get a white stripe on her back. Driving away she passes Pepe Le Pew who is hitchhiking.
At a tollbooth, Pepe greets her by asking if the token is a token of affection and she speeds through the gate. Then at a drive though she sees Pepe again, this time at the pick up window. Turning to the radio, she gets Pepe singing. Next he pulls up beside her in his semi. She zooms off.
Penelope continues to see Pepe at every turn: at a roadside apple stand, on a billboard, on church steps, in the road with a box of sweets, emerging from a manhole, and in the back of a passing vehicle.
Motorcycle cop Pepe pulls up beside Penelope, only to be run off a cliff by an oncoming semi. Penelope's relief is short-lived as she looks in the rear view mirror and sees her passenger...
The title refers the Twilight Zone episode The Hitchhiker which also had a traveler pass a hitchhiker, only to see him again and again and... The license plate on the convertible reads PENELOPE. Page 9: Le Burger's menu consists of: Chateaubriand (thick tenderloin, broiled and served with potatoes and a sauce), Coq au Vin (chicken stewed in a sauce of red wine, diced pork, onions, garlic, and mushrooms), Quiche (a pielike dish), Fondue (melted cheese into which you dip bits of bread), and Escargot (snails). The other two items, french fries and french toast, aren't French. The word french was added as a way of calling it 'fancy' or 'deluxe.' (ARM) Page 10: Pepe's CB is off. He says, translated, "Breaker breaker one, two, three." "Breaker" is followed by a channel number and there is no CB channel 123. Page 10: Pepe's hat changes style from the fifth to sixth panel. Page 10: That semi has an odd axle arrangement. The tractor should have two rear axles, not just one. Also, semi trailers have two rear axles, not three.Daffy's ventriloquist act is heckled by Witch Hazel. His retort results in his Elmer Fudd dummy becoming animated. With the dummy doing his own talking, Daffy's act takes off and he enjoys a very successful night. Naturally Daffy takes all the credit, especially when he's offered stardom in Las Vegas.
At Caesar's, Daffy is on stage thanking Wayne Newton for opening for him. In the distance Witch Hazel is gambling, throwing dice with words of encouragement. The duck tells her, rudely, to be quiet while he does his act. Hazel asides to the reader that she'll try again...
The next day has Daffy feeling rather stiff. Elmer, being no dummy, continues the act. Only now he's the ventriloquist.
The first title is also the title of a Twilight Zone episode with the same theme: An animate dummy trades places with a ventriloquist. Page 19: Elmer's box is labelled "The Li'l Hunter Ventriloquist Doll." Page 21: Wayne Newton is "Mr. Las Vegas" so if he was merely opening for Daffy, Daffy did indeed make it big in Vegas. Page 21: Caesar's Palace is the place to have an act in Las Vegas, another sign that Daffy didn't just make it, but made it big. Witch Hazel's face is colored blue, rather than the usual green. Page 14: Daffy's bowtie isn't colored in the last panel. Page 19: The note taped to the mirror changes from panel three to four. Page 21: The left die thrown by Hazel is incorrect. The opposite sides of a die add up to seven, so the five and two faces wouldn't be seen together in a single view. Page 22: The mirror doesn't reach to the floor in the third panel, yet does in the fifth and six panels. Page 22: The door handle moves to from one side of the door to the other.A nervous Sylvester boards a jet to go home, having been cured of his desire to prey on parakeets by aversion therapy. To get his mind off of things, he tries to take a nap only to awakened by a tapping at the window. Raising the shade, he sees an angry Tweety glaring through the window. Frightened, he quickly pulls the shade back down.
Sylvester raises the shade to convince himself that what he saw wasn't real. Now he sees Tweety hammering at the wing, then taking a torch to it, and then a jackhammer. Alarmed, he asks if anybody else can see what's going on.
Sylvester smashes his window and gets blown out of the plane. He holds on to the wing, slipping off when he tries to take a swipe at Tweety.
After an emergency landing Sylvester is pulled from the rudder of the plane. His rescuers don't believe his ranting about tweety birds and straightjacket him. Tweety bird footprints can be seen on the wing...
The title refers to the Twilight Zone episode Nightmare At 20,000 Feet in which an airline passenger sees gremlins attacking the plane. Page 29: Tweety's question to Sylvester is a movie title. Coffee, Tea, Or Me? is about an airline stewardess who commutes between her husbands. Page 23: Tweety is considered to be a canary, not a parakeet. Page 26: The wing light should be green, not red, in the fifth panel. The red light belongs on the left wing, not the right wing. Page 30: There are three problems with the runway in the first panel. One, the number to be read right side up would be on the near end of the runway. Two, both ends of the runway would be numbered. Three, runways on land are marked at the ends in tens of degrees so 45 would indicate 450 degrees. The highest number on a runway would be 36 for 360 degrees. The numbers on a runway are different at each end, indicating the compass heading for an approach in that direction. Page 30: The firefighter rescuing Sylvester should be wearing full gear, including gloves, as cats fight being rescued.Bugs and Daffy drive along at night in a convertible. Daffy asks Bugs to stop singing, so for a while he whistles instead. Daffy is rather bored, even tossing an anvil aside claiming nothing scares him anymore. Bugs asks if he'd like to see something really scary and Daffy accepts the offer, expecting nothing would faze him. He gets quite a shock, though, when Bugs turns back to him. Bugs' grinning head now looks like a black round-eared mouse...
The story is a direct spoof of a sequence with Dan Akroyd and Albert Brooks from the Twilight Zone movie, down to the choice of music and "wanna see something really scary?" (EC) Page 31: Bugs is driving in the middle of the road, right on the center line. Page 31: Bugs' seatbelt is missing in the last panel. Page 32: Daffy's seatbelt is misplaced in the first panel. It should go over his shoulder* Issue Index * Tabular Issue Index * Story Index * Creative People * Disclaimer *
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