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Flintstones Weekend Comics, September 1967
That nasty word “strike” wasn’t heard about Hanna-Barbera until August 1979 when there was a ten-day walkout by IATSE members (against the wishes of the union president) protesting runaway production....
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Quick Draw and Quack Drawn
The Hanna-Barbera rule book states on the third half of page 13: “All duck hunting in the aforementioned studio’s cartoons will fail.” Nobody should know better than your felicitous friend Yowp after...
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Mr Jinks' Bungled Birthday
Here’s another Dell Comic adventure with Mr. Jinks and those miserable meeces. The cover date is September 1961 but would have hit stands some time earlier. Kay Wright is apparently responsible for the...
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From the Mouths of Bears
Here’s one of those scenes you have to watch animated to appreciate the subtlety of the movement. Yogi’s mouth forms all kinds of shapes when he speaks. His head tilts ever-so-slightly at times....
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, October 1967
Head Ranger, Ranger General, Obese Ranger, Ranger Smith. Jellystone Park wasn’t loaded for bear. It was loaded with rangers in the weekend comics 50 years ago this month. In fact, Boo Boo makes only...
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Yakky Doodle in All’s Well That Eats Well
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Carlo Vinci, Layout – Lance Nolley, Backgrounds – Bob Gentle, Written by Tony Benedict, Story Director – Alex Lovy, Titles – Art...
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Fighting Cartoon Rigor Mortis
It was a great story, maybe a better story than in any of their cartoons. Two guys unceremoniously shunted out of the door, overcoming rejection after rejection to become a huge success, making history...
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Snagglepuss in Lion Tracks
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Hicks Lokey, Layout – Tony Rivera, Backgrounds – Bob Gentle, Written by Mike Maltese, Story Director – Art Davis, Titles – Art...
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, October 1967
It’s the far-out, groovin’ 60s, man, and that means sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. Okay, no drugs. And not really any sex, either, in the Flintstones weekend newspaper comics 50 years ago this month....
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The Jetsons – The Little Man
“Rook at the rimp! Rook at the rimp!” That’s about all anyone recalls from the Jetsons episode “The Little Man.” One of the things I like about the series is the futuristic inventions, all based on...
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Hanna-Barbera Golden Record Covers
A few months ago in response to a post about Hanna-Barbera Golden Records, reader Dan O’Connell kindly sent us a note, along with scans of covers in his collection that weren’t part of the post. We’ve...
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You'd Rather Have the Real Thing, Fellas?
Three different expressions from Huckleberry Hound at the start of one of those little cartoons-between-the-cartoons on his show. You can’t tell from the stills but in this scene, Huck moves his head...
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, November 1967
Though his vocabulary at the office around deadline time may not have suggested it, Bill Hanna was a Boy Scout and had been a big supporter of the organisation through to the end of his life. Perhaps...
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Yakky Doodle in Foxy Friends
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Bob Carr, Layouts – Dan Noonan, Backgrounds – Bob Gentle, Written by Mike Maltese, Story Director – Art David, Titles – Art...
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The House Built By a Hound
Quick quiz: who were the first three employees of H-B Enterprises on July 7, 1957? We know there are three because an article in the Christian Science Monitor of October 22, 1963 says so. And we know...
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Snagglepuss in Be My Ghost
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – C.L. Hartman, Layout – Walt Clinton, Backgrounds – Neenah Maxwell, Written by Mike Maltese, Story Director – Alex Lovy, Titles –...
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, November 1967
Ever wonder who invented the pizza? Easy. It was Tony Rockolino. Well, according to whoever wrote a Flintstones newspaper comic 50 years ago this month. And who would have thought that Fred was a real...
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Jetsons – Rosey the Robot
“[B]eyond electronic and mechanical gadgetry which underpins "The Jetsons" humor, nothing much else is new. In fact, the preem stanza (23) revolved around the oldest situation comedy chestnut known to...
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Beer Bear-el
Trouble’s always brewing when Yogi Bear is around. For example, here he is with a pic-a-nic basket climbing up the side of a building. There’s a particular reason he’s doing that. Reader Greg Gabry...
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Fortune Teller Huck
Huckleberry Hound can predict the future. He tells Pixie and Dixie they’re going to meet a tall, dark stranger with whiskers. Well, he may not be tall or dark, but he shows off his whiskers. And after...
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