Buster Bunny #9
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free# Buster Bunny #9 (1951) This issue contains at least two stories. "Buster Rides Again," written by Irwin Shapiro, follows Buster Bunny as he seeks an alternative means of transportation to school after his bicycle breaks. When his teacher Miss Prism cancels a planned school picnic, Buster devises an idea to ride his pet turtle Bozo to school, managing to arrive just as the schoolhouse door closes—only to discover the picnic has been cancelled, leaving him with a valuable lesson about punctuality. "Freddy Frog in Kid Stuff" features Freddy the frog attempting to win a hundred-dollar prize in a cute baby contest at Woodland Park, but his attempts go awry as he causes chaos while transporting babies, ultimately failing in his efforts.
Bill Bunny ditches school on a beautiful day, drawn to the swimming hole instead of the classroom. His impromptu dive for a game of water tag goes hilariously awry when he realizes his fellow swimmer is none other than Mr. McTardy, the truant officer—leaving our bunny friend in an awkward spot.
When Buster Bunny stumbles upon a magic book and decides to practice the Indian rope trick on his mother's clothesline, things go spectacularly wrong—he ends up transported to India and mistaken for the Rajah's new elephant boy. Now Buster must navigate a tiger hunt, evade a secret society of magicians determined to keep him prisoner, and figure out how to get back home before his cover is blown. It's a wild chase across exotic lands with magic, mayhem, and more trouble than one rabbit bargained for.
Wally Wolf is trying to enjoy a peaceful trip with a companion, but his travel mate's constant loud reading of roadside signs is driving him absolutely up the wall. When a washed-out bridge forces them off course and leaves them hungry and lost, Wally discovers that those very signs he was so eager to ignore might be their only way out of trouble.
Buster Bunny and his cousin Bill arrive at Uncle Hiram's farm for a surprise visit, only to discover that a notorious outlaw—Pistol Pete—has gone undercover on the property, using farm chores as cover while he evades the law. As Buster and Bill tackle hay-pitching and other farm work under their uncle's demanding eye, they're unaware that danger is hiding in plain sight among the animals and machinery. When a runaway cow causes chaos, the truth about Pete's whereabouts finally comes to light in the most unexpected way.
Freddy Frog spots a hundred-dollar prize for a cute baby contest and hatches a scheme to enter—until he rescues a youngster named Marmaduke and ends up babysitting instead for fifty cents an hour. As Freddy wheels his charge around the park toward the contest judges, he'll discover that winning a fortune and keeping a baby happy are two very different challenges. A hilarious romp from 1951 about misplaced ambitions and the chaos that follows when a scheme collides with real responsibility.
Tommy Turtle thinks he's found the perfect fix for a broken television set, but his confident diagnosis leads to a comedic collision when he fails to notice the repair man is already on the job—and takes offense to being the unwitting punchline.
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