Bugs Bunny #28
In "ALL-a Cart," a 1952 Dell comic priced at 10 cents, writer Don R. Christensen and artist Fred Abranz deliver a delightfully surreal twist on detective noir, where Simple Simon the Soup-Chips Kid—a humanized puppet yearning for a real career—steps into the spotlight as a private eye. With Bugs Bunny as his sardonic mentor and a mop-wigged girl Friday, the case unfolds around the mysterious ebony statue known as "The Dimpled Diana," said to hold the key to a hidden treasure. Cover by Ralph Heimdahl captures the whimsical mystery with a sharp, stylized flair.
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"Pinocchio" meets "The Maltese Falcon" in this bizarre tale of double and triple crossings over "The Dimpled Diana", an ebony statue with the key to a vast treasure inscribed on its base. "Simple Simon the Soup-Chips Kid", a humanized puppet with strings, is tired of performing as a marionette on a kids' TV show and aspires to become, not a "real boy", but accomplished at a worthwhile career. Bugs humors him and sets him up as a private eye with a broom closet as his office, donning a mop-wig to become his girl Friday. The gag leads to some honest-to-Bogart "Maltese Falcon-esque" intrigue.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).