For reasons unknown the publisher Dell not once but twice tried comics in the “Large Feature” in an oversized (8 1/2 inches wide x 11 3/8 inches tall) black and white format. They published 30 issues between 1939 and 1942 and then an additional 13 all of which for the most part featured reprints of then current comic strips, but they also featured some oddities, like their own homegrown nearly naked superhero Phantasmo, Master of the World and for some reason, Bugs Bunny.

This is clearly the early, cheeky Bugs, the one that came in quotes for some reason, and like a lot of funny animal stories of the era he and Porky find themselves in what amounts to a fairly serious adventure story. Although signed Leon Schlesinger, the producer of the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodie cartoons famous for not being funny and contributing absolutely nothing to the cartoons, the art is most likely the work of writer/artist/editor Chase Craig. By now you must know how much I enjoy seeing comic book art intended to be colored in stark black and white so for me the entire Large Feature series is something of a revelation.