HOUSE OF HORRORS 25 Marvin Abducts Emily

 

This is a request by @mothrabro for Drew's House of Horrors 2025 Jam for Emily of Hazbin Hotel captured by Marvin the Martian of Looney Tunes. Emily thought her wings and power of flight would prevent her capture. Marvin had his Acme Tape Mummification Gun with him. So Emily is going to be the first seraphim angel of Earth to set foot on Mars.

Emily is a seraphim angel and a supporting character who made her debut in "Welcome to Heaven."

Emily is excitable, bubbly, sweet, friendly and kind to almost everyone around her. She does not discriminate others based on mistakes or who they are, where she excitedly greeted Charlie and welcomed her to Heaven, despite her being a demon. She compliments Sera in personality, with Sera the most serious and Emily the more bubbly. Working alongside Sera, her job is to preserve the happiness and joy of the human souls that ascend to Heaven.

Emily also holds a great amount of sympathy towards human souls and sees them all as equal, much like Charlie, as she is disgusted and horrified upon learning about the Extermination.

She is also shown to engage deeply in the things that she believes in, such as when she promises Charlie to find a way to help her. As shown in "Welcome to Heaven" and "The Show Must Go On," Emily believes in Charlie's dream of rehabilitating Sinners and allowing them into Heaven, and was delighted to see Sir Pentious" ascending into Heaven, proving that it was indeed possible for a sinner demon to be redeemed.

Marvin the Martian is a fictional character that appears as one of Bugs Bunny's primary enemies in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons.

Since Elmer Fudd was considered too clueless and affable to be a threat, and Yosemite Sam was quickly becoming just as hopeless, Chuck Jones felt the time would come for Bugs Bunny to meet a new kind of villain altogether, a villain who is both very shrewd and who posed a true threat.

So the alien menace that would be known as Marvin the Martian was created for the 1948 short Haredevil Hare, being a more calculating, courteous, relaxed and destructive opponent than those that came before him he nonetheless found himself defeated in the end by Bugs Bunny - although he only appeared in five golden-age shorts, due to his popularity he returned and has stayed on as one of the Looney Tunes' most popular villains, appearing in many cartoons and films as well as countless merchandise, Marvin has even been adopted as the mascot of a few NASA vehicles among other things.

Many of his villainous acts involve intending to destroy the Earth with a deadly weapon called the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator" (sometimes pronounced "Illudium Pu-36" or "Uranium Pu-36") which looks like an ordinary stick of dynamite. However, this plan is always foiled and the modulator ends up exploding near him instead.

HOUSE OF HORRORS 24 Vampirella Alien Capture

 

This is for Mothrabro's jam Drew's House of Horrors  2024 with the Dynamite Entertainment version of Vampirella being kidnapped by aliens, namely Marvin the Martian and some of his Instant Martians.

Vampirella is a fictional character, a comic book vampire superheroine created by Forrest J Ackerman and comic book artist Trina Robbins in Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror comics magazine Vampirella #1 (Sept. 1969). Writer-editor Archie Goodwin later developed the character from horror-story hostess, in which capacity she remained through issue #8 (Nov. 1970), to a horror-drama leading character. Vampirella was ranked 35th in Comics Buyer's Guide's "100 Sexiest Women in Comics" list.

Vampirella was originally presented as an inhabitant of the planet Drakulon, a world where a vampiric race lived on blood and where blood flowed in rivers. Drakulon orbits twin suns that were causing droughts across the planet, marking certain doom for Vampirella and her race. The race of which Vampirella was born, the Vampiri, were able to transform themselves into bats at will, possessed superhuman physical attributes, sprout wings when required to fly, and drink blood. The story begins with the inhabitants of Drakulon dying slowly due to the drying up of its blood. The last few lie dying when a spaceship from Earth crashes on the planet. Vampirella, sent to investigate, is attacked; retaliating, she discovers that the astronauts have blood in their veins. In order for her race to survive, she manages to pilot the ship back to Earth where her adventures begin. Vampirella becomes a "good" vampire, and devotes her energy to ridding our world of the evil kind. Evil vampires owe their existence to Dracula, who came from Drakulon but was corrupted by Chaos.

Marvin the Martian is a fictional character that appears as one of Bugs Bunny's primary enemies in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons.

Since Elmer Fudd was considered too clueless and affable to be a threat, and Yosemite Sam was quickly becoming just as hopeless, Chuck Jones felt the time would come for Bugs Bunny to meet a new kind of villain altogether, a villain who is both very shrewd and who posed a true threat.

So the alien menace that would be known as Marvin the Martian was created for the 1948 short Haredevil Hare, being a more calculating, courteous, relaxed and destructive opponent than those that came before him he nonetheless found himself defeated in the end by Bugs Bunny - although he only appeared in five golden-age shorts, due to his popularity he returned and has stayed on as one of the Looney Tunes' most popular villains, appearing in many cartoons and films as well as countless merchandise, Marvin has even been adopted as the mascot of a few NASA vehicles among other things.

Many of his villainous acts involve intending to destroy the Earth with a deadly weapon called the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator" (sometimes pronounced "Illudium Pu-36" or "Uranium Pu-36") which looks like an ordinary stick of dynamite. However, this plan is always foiled and the modulator ends up exploding near him instead.

Instant Martians are the names given to Martians that Marvin the Martian grew from seeds in Hare-Way to the Stars". He sent them after Bugs Bunny, but they were outsmarted by him.

Prior to this short, they appeared in Jumpin' Jupiter as Jovians, but their "instant" nature is not depicted. Younger versions of them appear in Duck Dodgers. One of them also made a very brief cameo appearance in Looney Tunes: Back in Action, sleeping on the job of guarding the ship and failing to notice Bugs and Daffy got it. They re-appear in The Looney Tunes Show during Marvin's music video "I'm a Martian." In this short video, in addition to one being a DJ and one a hippie guitarist, there are also very attractive female Martians seen dancing. They next appeared in another music video "Be Polite." They later appear living in Marvin's house on Mars in The Looney Tunes Show. They also appear in Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run disguised as Cecil Turtle's goons.

HALLOWEEN GOTH GIRL Witch Hazel

Happy Halloween 2023. We have "ugly" Witch Hazel having troubles for Halloween.

Witch Hazel is a Looney Tunes series character. "Witch hazel" is a pun on the name of a North American shrub and the herbal medicine derived from it.

The animator Chuck Jones, of his own admission, got the idea of Witch Hazel from the Disney cartoon Trick or Treat (1952), which featured a good-natured witch squaring off with Donald Duck. Enamored of the character's voice characterization, provided by June Foray, Jones developed his own Witch Hazel character for the Bugs Bunny short Bewitched Bunny (1954). The story retells the classic fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel", and Witch Hazel, naturally, plays the witch who tries to cook and eat the children. Bugs Bunny witnesses her coaxing the children inside, however, and saves the youths from Witch Hazel's clutches. However, once the witch realizes that Bugs is a rabbit, she chases him to put him into her witch's brew. Bugs eventually uses Hazel's own magic against her and transforms her into a sexy female bunny, prompting the comment, "But aren't they all witches inside?" As Jones was unable to get Foray to play the role, Bea Benaderet supplies the witch's voice.

Despite their common name, Jones's Witch Hazel is a much different beast from her counterpart in the earlier Disney film. The Looney Tunes character is highly stylized. Her rotund, green-skinned body is wrapped in plain, blue cloth and supported by twiglike legs. She has wild black hair from which hairpins fly whenever she zooms off on her broom, and she wears a crumpled black hat. Her nose and chin jut bulbously from her face, and her mouth sports a single tooth. She's a more villainous creature than Disney's witch, as well; the Looney Tunes Hazel lures children into her house to eat them. Nonetheless, she has a strong sense of humor; she frequently says things that cause her to break into hysterical, cackling laughter. An earlier, and even darker "Witch Hazel" character exists in the Harman-Ising Happy Harmonies short "Bottles," who threatens to kill the shrunken pharmacist,

Jones finally succeeded in wooing Foray into taking on the role of Witch Hazel for the 1956 cartoon Broom-stick Bunny. Foray had reservations about Jones "stealing" a character from Disney, but Jones knew that there was no way for Disney to establish ownership of the name since "witch hazel" is the name of an alcohol rub. Foray would perform the character for the final two cartoons in the series.

Broom-stick Bunny is usually cited as Jones' funniest Witch Hazel outing. The cartoon begins with Hazel asking the genie in her magic mirror who's the ugliest one of all (a plot similar to the one in Snow White but the opposite). The scene cuts to Bugs trick-or-treating on Halloween dressed as a witch. When he visits the isolated house of Witch Hazel, she mistakes Bugs-in-witch-costume for an actual witch. Jealous that this newcomer is uglier than herself, Hazel invites the "witch" inside her strange home (beautifully rendered by layout artists Ernest Nordli and Philip DeGuard, and including a 'Magic Broom Closet') for some "Pretty Potion" disguised as tea. Bugs removes his mask to drink, sending her into a frenzy and mad dash; a rabbit's clavicle (a bone in the shoulder) is the last ingredient in her witches brew. Hazel then chases Bugs and soon captures him, by tricking him with a carrot. Hazel was about to kill Bugs, but when she looked into his big sad eyes, she cried and said that he reminded her of her pet tarantula, Paul. Bugs then tried to calm her down with a beverage (the Pretty Potion from earlier). In the end, Hazel unknowingly drinks the Pretty Potion (it's unknown if it Bugs did this on purpose or by accident), a fate worse than death for a woman who relishes in her croneliness. The potion transforms Hazel into a young and beautiful redhead (with a hairdo that, according to Foray, matched her own in a tribute to the actress). Now with a slender but curvaceous figure, Hazel's wearing a tight sea green/teal dress that shows off her legs and the top of her cleavage. Horrified at her appearance, she runs to her magic mirror and (in a newly softened, sexier voice matching her beautiful appearance) meekly asks if she's still ugly. The genie, seeing Hazel's sexy new appearance, instantly falls in love with her and lunges to grab her after giving a Bob Hope-like "ROWR, ROWR." Hazel then flies off into the night on her flying broomstick with the genie slowly gaining on her riding his magic carpet. Bugs then calls Air Raid-headquarters about them. Critics have praised the film's witty dialogue, written by Tedd Pierce, such as Hazel's question to Bugs-in-costume: "Tell me, who undoes your hair?" He replies, "Do you like it?", to which her response is a gleeful "Like it? Why, it's absolutely hideous!" Subsequently, when she leaves the room to prepare the beauty enhancing concoction, she encourages him to "Make yourself homely!"

Jones would pit Bugs against Witch Hazel in one final cartoon, A Witch's Tangled Hare (1959), a parody of Macbeth. Rabbit is once again the missing ingredient to Witch Hazel's brew, and Bugs happens to be in the area. Meanwhile, a William Shakespeare look-alike observes the action in search of inspiration.

 

Mary Jane Muffled Too Hot for DA

 

This is a request for Mary Jane of Dell Comics Mary Jane & Sniffles being bound and gagged. Another victim of DA admins.

When the Warner Bros,cartoon characters were licensed for Dell Comics monthly anthology title, Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies Comics, it was a given that the book's stars would be Bygs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig. But since Foghorn Leghorn, Wile E. Coyote and Tweety & Slyvester didn't exist yet, filling the back pages of the first issue (October, 1941) wasn't so easy. Some very minor characters, such as Petunia Pig and Little Pancho Vanilla, wound up part of the mix.

One of them was Sniffles the Mouse whose tenure in comic books far outlasted, and is far more fondly recalled than his rather inconsequential career in animation. That's because in comics, he was teamed with a little girl named Mary Jane, who could shrink to his size and have fantasy adventures with him in a land of living toys. At first, the series was titled "Sniffles & Mary Jane," but eventually that was reversed, giving its true star top billing.

Editor Chase Craig (Magnus, Robot Fighter) created and wrote the "Mary Jane & Sniffles" series, naming its human protagonist after his wife. (There is some speculation that he based the character on the little girl in Beauty & the Beast (no realation), a 1934 Merrie Melody directed by Friz Freleng, but the connection, consisting mostly of hair color and the fact that "Beauty" used a similar method to shrink into the toy world, seems uncertain.) Through most of the 1940s, the series was drawn by Roger Armstrong, whose other credits include stints on the Ella Cinders, Napoleon and Scamp newspaper strips. In the '50s, Al Hubbard, whose credits, by an odd coincidence, also include Scamp (as well as comic book stories about Chip'n'Dale, Jimmy Cricket and practically every other Disney character), took it over.

Mary Jane's exact technique for shrinking varied. At first she would sprinkle magic sand on herself, saying, "Magic sand, magic sand, make me small at my command!" or sometimes "Oh, magic sand upon me fall, and make me very, very small!" In 1949, the words became "First I shut my eyes real tight, then I wish with all my might! Magic words of poof, poof, piffles, make me just as small as Sniffles!" During Hubbard's tenure, the magic sand was omitted, leaving just the words, which Mary Jane would pronounce with her fingers crossed.

Mary Jane & Sniffles far outlasted the other non-headliners that began in the first issue. In fact, they actually got a couple of headlines of their own, appearing as the title characters in Four Color Comics #s 402 (1952) and 474 ('53). And even after the Looney Tunes comic itself shrank, from 52 pages to a mere 36 (sinking a couple of back-up series), there was still room for them. Eventually, however, the series was retired. It last appeared in the 238th issue (July, 1961), only eight issues before the Warner Bros. comic book license was transferred to Gold Key Comics, and the anthology title was discontinued. After that, it continued briefly in the back pages of Bugs Bunny's comic. It was seen in occasional reprints as recently as the 1970s, but is now just a fond memory.

Ask the average comics and cartoon buff who Sniffles the Mouse is, and the chances are he won't even mention the dozen or so cartoons the character appeared in during the late 1930s and early '40s. If he knows the character at all, it's probably because of this comic book series.

HAPPY CHINESE LUNAR NEW YEAR Bunny

 

Happy Chinese New Year. It is the year of the rabbit and to celebrate we have Bunny of Looney Tunes Bunny and Claude being kidnapped in a Cheongsam dress.  Now this adorable rabbit is in a classic chair tie.

For Chinese people, the rabbit is a tame creature representing hope and life for a long time. It is tender and lovely. The moon goddess Chang'e in the Chinese legend has a rabbit as her pet, which stimulates the thought that only this creature is amiable enough to match her noble beauty. Another way of saying is that the Rabbit is the incarnation of the moon goddess per se and it is always a symbol of pureness and auspiciousness.

People born in the Year of the Rabbit are gentle and approachable. They have a decent, noble and elegant manner.

Bunny and Claude are criminals, based on the real-life Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow and the then recent film version about the pair's life starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway that had been released by Warner Brothers. They are well-dressed male (Claude) and female (Bunny) rabbits who are always pulling off carrot heists, and their catch phrase is "We rob carrot patches," a play on "We rob banks" from the film Bonnie and Clyde. Bunny was voiced by Pat Woodell and Claude was voiced by veteran WB voice actor Mel Blanc. They both speak with pronounced Southern accents.

Bunny and Claude were always chased by a stereotypical Southern sheriff (also voiced by Mel Blanc, his voice sounded similar to Foghorn Leghorn and Yosemite Sam), whom would pursue them in his police cruiser, even though the gangster rabbits would always foil his plans.