The colour tabloid is from April 28, 1968. It would seem more appropriate to have published it around St. Patrick’s Day given that a leprechaun is a co-star, but maybe that was too obvious.
Quick Draw and Huck make an appearance in the top row of the April 7, 1968 comic. They’re not part of the plot but it’s nice to see them there.
Boo Boo doesn’t make much of an appearance this month, but we’ve got rangers on April 14th and 21st (including an angry obese one that Doug Young probably would have voiced if it had been a TV cartoon) and Bill Hanna’s beloved Boy Scouts on the 7th. I must admit the house painting story is a little too surreal for Yogi; the bear always had motivation for what he did instead of just doing something silly. Perhaps I’m missing something. I like how Yogi makes an appearance in the window of the final panel on the 21st.
April 7, 1968
April 14, 1968
April 21, 1968
April 28, 1968
Isn't that Boo Boo who says "What do you want with Phil's sheepdog, Yogi?" in the first comic? :)
ReplyDeleteThese materials were drawn by Pete Alvarado, Iwao Takamoto and Jerry Eisenberg.
ReplyDeleteIn the third box on the top comic strip, Yogi's dialogue is "Tomorrow? Sure, Mister Ranger, Sir...I'll be glad to take over for you."
ReplyDeleteAt least, this is my reasonable guess. There is just enough space for those exact words to fit. Enlarging improves the visibility, but parts of that speech just disappear completely. (I printed it out and wrote in the dialogue, and it matches with the markings that are there.)
This is, however, in no way a complaint! As I have stated for years now, this monthly "fix" of Yogi and Flintstones comics is one of the great joys of life!
Thanks, Yowp, and thanks, Richard for making this possible for yet another little while!
And, of all things, they appear to have used “Iron Hand Jones” (…or a reasonable facsimile of the character, who’d not been seen in six or more years) instead of Ranger Smith in the surreal “House Painting” strip!
ReplyDeleteThere were a couple of Sunday comics over the years that featured a foul-tempered ranger that was very much like Iron Hand Jones, so I guess he was in the back of their minds.
DeleteAs a character, he works really well as a change from Smith, but this comic leaves me thinking "Huh?" Smith or a superintendent or a park shop owner would have worked.