At least, such is the case in the Stone Age of the Flintstones.
Here’s what Gene Hazelton and his crew put together in the Sunday comics on this month in 1970. Pops appears on December 6th, Barney and Dino on the 13th, and Fred takes the Christmas comic of December 20th off. He returns on December 27th with a new-fangled remote control (at least our TV sets in the ‘60s never had one). The kids singing in the first panel of the Christmas comic look more like they came from Rankin-Bass than Hanna-Barbera.
Click on each comic to enlarge it. The colour comic comes from the collection of Richard Holliss.
December 6, 1970
December 13, 1970
December 20, 1970
December 27, 1970
Materials 100% Gene Hazelton.
ReplyDeleteInked by Lee Hooper.
Spiro Agnew? Shouldn't be Spirock Agnestone?
ReplyDeleteHow about this?
DeleteSpirock Agate!
Would exercise guru Jane Fonda name be converted to "Jane Fossil"? LOL XD
DeleteConsidering it's his "favorite time of the year" according to two different songs and 3 Christmas episodes, it's strange that Fred is absent from the Christmas comic strip.
ReplyDeleteThanks once again for this twice-monthly treat!
Among the Flintstones Christmas Sunday pages which I saw, Fred is absent in the Christmas Sunday pages from 1967 and 1970.
DeleteHere's a little article about the infamous Spiro Agnew watches:
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