You all remember the cartoon “Stop That Bear!” where Dick Dastardly sent Muttley to Jellystone Park to capture Yogi.
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Okay, it never happened. Before there was Muttley, there was Mugger, the snickering dog in the feature length cartoon “Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear.” And that’s, presumably, who is chasing Yogi in this newspaper comic panel from April 4, 1965.
A month ago, I mentioned all my sources of the complete (three row) Sunday Yogi comics had dried up. Mark Kausler has been, for some months, posting two-row versions, in full colour, from his personal collection on his web site. There’s no point in me posting two-row black-and-white versions (which is all I can find for now) when he has them in colour. And I suspect he’ll be blogging longer than I will. So I’m defaulting to Mark and you can read the Yogi comics on his site by clicking HERE. Two of them feature Mugger; another is centred around Mr. and Mrs. Ranger Smith (Mr. Ranger is named “Bill” this time). And Mark can provide far better insight into the comics than I can.
We’ll see what else we can come up with for you this week.
Okay, it never happened. Before there was Muttley, there was Mugger, the snickering dog in the feature length cartoon “Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear.” And that’s, presumably, who is chasing Yogi in this newspaper comic panel from April 4, 1965.
A month ago, I mentioned all my sources of the complete (three row) Sunday Yogi comics had dried up. Mark Kausler has been, for some months, posting two-row versions, in full colour, from his personal collection on his web site. There’s no point in me posting two-row black-and-white versions (which is all I can find for now) when he has them in colour. And I suspect he’ll be blogging longer than I will. So I’m defaulting to Mark and you can read the Yogi comics on his site by clicking HERE. Two of them feature Mugger; another is centred around Mr. and Mrs. Ranger Smith (Mr. Ranger is named “Bill” this time). And Mark can provide far better insight into the comics than I can.
We’ll see what else we can come up with for you this week.