Some standard situations make their appearance in the Flintstones daily comic strip in the final half of October 1961, which was the first month of publication. Do people still complain about women drivers? It seems to me ineptness knows no gender these days. On Monday, October 16th, there’s a gag about women drivers. The following day, Fred writes off one of Barney’s inventions which, naturally, is hugely popular in our day and age. Another invention appears on the 20th, while on the 21st, mastodons perform household tasks like they did in the animated cartoons. The Thursday comic has Fred adjusting knobs on his TV, which really is a Stone Age idea (note the elk antlers as antenna on top of the set).
Below are comics for October 16 to 21.
Fred’s love of bowling was in the first Flintstones episode that aired (although it was the third one made) in 1960. Evidently Fred needs a makeshift alley for practice in the comic strip of October 23, 1961. That cartoon also involved Fred sneaking around behind Wilma, which drives the plot of the comic of the 26th. The following day, Wilma has another elephant appliance.
The comics below are from October 23-28.
The next two, October 30 and 31, round out the month, with the final one a variation on the huge-slab-newspaper gag in the Flintstones TV debut.
You can click on any of the comics to make them larger.