Please don’t feed your Easter rabbit carrots
You shouldn’t be Feed your rabbit Lots of carrots at all, no matter what the bugs say. And yet, there is a rabbit – fictional, clearly – who not only eats them but prosperous on them.
Atomic rabbit # 1 was published by Charlton in 1955 at the height of the American fascination for nuclear energy and the fear of the allegedly immoral influence of comics. This last situation explains this note which appears on the first page of the book.
Al FagoWho identifies himself as the editor -in -chief, also created, drawn and, wrote this comic strip, so it is entirely his baby. Let us see if he can live up to his promise to provide “the highest quality of healthy entertainment”.
Our first story, “The Discovery”, begins in Rabbitville, where the fox (is “the” name?) Is the mayor. It looks like this could present a conflict of interest, but in any case, a poor hungry rabbit comes in town and begs a carrot of the wife of the former mayor.
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But there is something funky in this carrot.
The rabbit not yet unknown wins the superstrong and the ability to fly, which he both uses to beat the fox, get him out of the city and restore the previous mayor.
Listen, I know that I was joking about a conflict of interest earlier, but we have no evidence that the fox was not duly elected or that he did something wrong with being an idiot. We don’t even know that the ex-mayor was not, I don’t know, took broccoli diversion. I do not call to use your superpowers to organize a very “healthy” coup, but there is another history of atomic rabbit in this issue. Maybe Fago will do better in the second round.
The second story, “Just Water Over The Dam”, begins with this panel.
Oh, well, the unreal and superpowers rabbit has complete presidential immunity. So healthy!
Anyway, the atomic rabbit goes to Washington with the garden samples in the garden where the carrots that give power to discover what is happening here. After consulting President Eisenhower, AR learns that the soil is prevented from uranium.
That’s it. No one asks where uranium comes from, or why he only affected atomic rabbit, or if there can be side effects. It is required for granted that this radioactive substance – and number 2 confirms that it is U -235, the type of uranium used in bombs – is at worst harmless and downright benevolent at best.
AR uses its powers and a gift of President’s vegetable seeds to provide the needs of the citizens of Rabbitville, which lack food for any reason. It never explained why. I guess we are supposed to blame the fox, an idea that gains credibility when we see how crazy the fox is when the rabbits celebrate AR. The Fox recruits his young sons to try to sabotage the vegetable field. The atomic rabbit ends this quickly.
The endangerment of children! Healthy!!
Obviously, I had fun at the clown on what the 1950s considered “healthy entertainment”, but Atomic rabbit is a little fun with stuffed animals. It is always interesting for me to know how contemporary problems with concern or interest – in this case, nuclear energy – make a path in the strangest places.
Atomic rabbit run for eleven numbers, from 1955 to 1958, before being renamed Atomic rabbit And continue for eight other numbers. The idea of an animal powered by uranium was apparently lucrative for Fago, which also created an atomic mouse in 1953 and atom the cat in 1957, both for Charlton.
So remember: if someone tells you that there is uranium in your garden, plant vegetables and cut. Nothing bad will happen!
