Yosemite Sam #36

Yosemite Sam #36 was published in 1963 as part of the long-running Gold Key Comics series featuring the popular Looney Tunes character. This title was part of a larger publishing program by Western Publishing, which leveraged the immense popularity of Warner Bros. animated shorts to engage younger readers through colorful, low-cost booklets that brought the frenetic energy of the screen to the printed page.

The character of Yosemite Sam was originally created by animator Friz Freleng in 1945, designed to be a more formidable and hot-tempered adversary for Bugs Bunny than the existing Elmer Fudd. The comic iterations were produced by an evolving stable of artists and writers under the Gold Key editorial umbrella, aiming to capture the slapstick, repetitive gag structures of the cartoons while adapting them into a narrative format that fit the standard comic book length of the mid-century era.