It's the Hip Fab Fun cover. The four stars, top to bottom, are occupied by Marvin the Martian, the Martian dog K-9, Daffy Duck, and Bugs Bunny.
Just outside an open window, a masked Sylvester has just taken Tweety from his cage and is about to put the bird into a sack bearing the words Trick or Tweety. The just snatched and worried Tweety is saying, "I knew I taw a puddy tat!"
Sylvester has just been kicked out of Granny's house and it's Halloween night so there isn't much in the trash that the cat likes. Finding only a radio, he tries to at least hear a cat food commercial only to get told to run for his life as there's a Martian invasion.
The local radio station is doing the annual Halloween "Invasion from Mars" broadcast. This time there is a difference; Martians, led by Marvin, are invading and want the town abandoned. Townsfolk comply with the demand and flee. Sylvester however charges to Porky's place in an effort to warn him. Porky dismisses the now real radio warning as just the usual Halloween broadcast.
Marvin lands and scans, finding one holdout hasn't left: Porky. The Martian tries to get his point across only to be mistaken for a trick-or-treater, disarmed, and then ignored. Marvin decides to move Porky himself, by moving the house with his spaceship.
Realizing he left K-9 behind, Marvin tries to rescue the dog from the house but only manages to fall from his ship and into the house himself. An irate Porky kicks the pair out, warning them he doesn't want more trouble from them or their friends. The Martians struggle back to the ship, Marvin calling off the invasion.
The townsfolk return, the radio announces the invasion has retreated, and Porky still thinks it was all just another normal Halloween night. As he heads to bed, he sees a sheet moving around and shaking, Sylvester underneath, and runs. He's just seen a ghost...
The title plays on Ed Wood's 1958 film Plan 9 From Outer Space which is famous (or infamous) for its reputation, according to some, as the worst movie ever made. Page 1: Even Martians need to relax. A door inside the Marvin's ship is labelled 'toys.' Page 2: Marvin's map keeps things simple enough with one place being 'here' and all others being 'there.' Page 10: K-9 certainly is canine, exhibiting normal dog behavior.
The time of night seems to off. Trick-or-treating and a Halloween radio broadcast take place in the evening, yet the moon is at or after last quarter which implies a time after midnight. On page 20 we see Porky's clock showing 3:00. In our age of paranoia trick-or-treating at 3:00 PM is a possibility, but that would be during daylight in most places. At 3:00 AM Porky would have been irate from the start. The radio Sylvester finds keeps changing. Just how are the knobs and dials arranged on it? Page 2: The radio station callsign, starting with K, indicates a location probably west of the Mississippi river and the mountains on page 1 would suggest rather far west, yet the map here and the view on page 16 seem to show the town being somewhere in the central United States. And the central U.S. is rather free of mountains. Page 10: Giving chocolate to a dog is bad idea. Chocolate can be toxic, even fatal, to a dog.Daffy can't settle on his Halloween costume. He rejects a devil outfit, a tutu and wig, a Bugs Bunny costume, and the surfer look before thinking of an ideal costume: a sailor suit. Just then Bugs walks in and makes fun it so Daffy decides to go out as himself, au naturel.
Bugs and Daffy set out trick-or-treating, Bugs expecting carrots. Daffy expects to get candy but only manages to get a foot crushed in a doorway. They keep trying. Bugs gets candy, gum, even money and stock certificates! Daffy gets rocks and coal. There is one house left and Daffy insists on trying one more time despite the decrepit spooky look and the warning that trespassers will be eaten.
Inside, Witch Hazel is brewing a youth serum but is missing an ingredient. She finds a substitution can be made, if she can just find it: fresh tail of rabbit. Just then her doorbell rings, and rings and rings. Planning to turn the ringer of the doorbell, Daffy, into a frog, she answers the door. Upon seeing Bugs she ignores the duck completely and welcomes the rabbit in.
Hazel wants Bugs to just sit in some stew. Daffy is furious at being rejected and now wants to sit in the stew! Hazel threatens to put a spell on the duck as Bugs reads the witch's cookbook. Bugs warns Daffy and they both run for it.
Hazel chases the pair around, with various mishaps along the way. The final problem ends the chase and tosses all three into the stewpot. It seems adding tail of duck makes the youth potion a little too potent...
Page 24: The duck in a sailor suit pokes fun at Disney's Donald Duck. Page 31: Gossamer has an appearance. Page 26, 29: The top of Bugs tail has been left uncolored.* Issue Index * Tabular Issue Index * Story Index * Creative People * Disclaimer *
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Last updated 9 March 1998