#140

Publication date is derived from the last three digits of the cover code (201 = January 1972). On sale date (month and year) is derived from the issue code appearing in the bottom tier of page one (7111 = November, 1971).

First issue of this title to be primarily or fully made up of new stories, after a long series of issues presenting mostly reprint material with only an average of six pages of new content per issue. In the case of this issue, all of the Bugs Bunny comic stories herein are new, with only the cover, a “Beep Beep the Road Runner” four-page “guest feature”, and the issue’s required text story as reprints. For the Bugs Bunny title, reprints predominated from issue #97 (Cover Date: January 1965) until this issue - #140 (Cover Date: January 1972).