Looney Tunes Magazine #1 - DC

I tried to magazine as different from yesterday's as possible. How'd I do?

Looney Tunes was put out around the same time as Superman & Batman Magazine--and both are listed as being published by DC, not Warner Bros. or anything, so was DC gearing up for a line of magazines?

Inside is a real smorgaboard of material, like Bugs and Daffy taking "A Looney Look Back at the 80s"(featuring Alf, exercise videos, and Run DMC), "A Looney Look Ahead to the 90s", and a How To Draw Daffy segment.

There is some comic book material in here, like "Lifestyles of the Looney Tunes", written by Joe Orlando(!) and Joey Cavalieri, and drawn by John Costanza(I assume this is the same John Costanza as the long-time letterer). Costanza's work is nice and solid, and looks a bit like Ernie Colon's stuff but with a smoother ink line. It mostly features Bugs and Daffy, but with a nice cameo by the other Looney stars at the end:

...I guess Wile E. Coyote couldn't be trusted to be in a limo with the Road Runner.

There's also some puzzle pages, "Wile E. Coyote's Secrets for the Super Genius", a Tweety Bird text story(!), "Pepe Le Pew's Gourmet Goodies", "Foghorn Leghorn's Answers to Everything"(at only two pages he can't get to everything), and then "Porky's Punchlines."

Like Superman and Batman, the presentation is slick, and there's enough crammed in these thirty-six pages to entertain any young Looney Tunes fan.

Surprisingly, Looney Tunes had an even shorter run than its sister magazine; a mere six issues! Although as we all know, a lot of this material probably never made it to drugstores, supermarkets, and the like, so maybe most of its target audience never even knew of its existence.