Today in Comics History, October 1: Government shutdown cancels Fat Bears Week forever

from Yogi Bear (1977 series) #9 (Marvel, March 1979), script by Mark Evanier, pencils by Dick Bichenbach, inks by Lee Hooper, colors by Garrett Gafford

Happy birthday to my pal John!

(...who helps me out with this here comic book blog, but you don't hear me complaining about that). May your day be full of presents, friends, cake, fun, and pic-a-nic baskets, John!


Cover of Yogi Bear's Birthday Party one-shot (Federal Comics, 1980)

Comics News for March 31, 2015

Top: from "Savage Animal Fury!" in Cartoon Network Presents #4 (November 1997), script by Michael Kupperman,
pencils and inks by Bill Alger, colors by Dave Tanguay, letters by Phil Felix
Middle: from "Rosie and Red Russia!" in Incredible Hulk (1968 series) #210 (April 1977), script by Len Wein,
breakdowns by Sal Buscema, finishes by Ernie Chan, colors by Glynis Wein, letters by John Costanza
Bottom: from "Amazing Ratios" in Strange Adventures #60 (September 1955), script by Julius Schwartz, artist uncredited

Today in Comics History, October 24, 1945: And she'll have UN UN UN 'til her daddy takes the General Assembly away

Today in Comics History (as we like to say around here)...well, something something this!


from Four Color #1349 [Yogi Bear Visits the U.N.] (Dell, January 1962), script by Paul S. Newman, pencils and inks by Fred Fredericks
Yep, it's United Nations Day! Founded on this date in 1945, the UN has been in a lotta comic books. (Almost as many as Wolverine!) In the absence of any other material tonight, let's front-load this puppet-town cow blog with a whole Dag Hammarskjöldfull of appearances by everyone's slim, tall building on the east side of Manhattan to celebrate United Nations Day! It also happens to be the same date from 1260, when Saif ad-Din Qutuz, third Mamluk Sultan of Egypt, is assassinated by Baibars, a fellow Mamluk leader, who seizes power for himself. But I can't find any of my comic books about that.

Let's UN-wind by kicking off a series of DC comic book PSAs telling us how nifty the United Nations is!

Bear Attack! Month 2014, Day 22: Mmmmmmm, pic-a-nic baskets

Panels from "Mass Historia!" in Simpsons Comics #200 (March 2013), script by Ian Boothby, pencils by Phil Ortiz, inks by Mike DeCarlo, colors by Art Villanueva, letters by Karen Bates

A Hanna-Barbera Christmas, Day 25: And a Funtastic New Year!

Page from The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera #1 [The Flintstones Christmas Party] (December 1977), script by Mark Evanier, pencils by Kay Wright, inks by Scott Shaw!, colors by Carl Gafford, letters by Mike Royer

A Hanna-Barbera Christmas, Day 23: A Very Pic-a-Nic Christmas

Cover of Hanna-Barbera Presents Yogi Bear Big Book (Harvey series) #2 (March 1993)

A Hanna-Barbera Christmas, Day 14: In Bedrock, we celebrate the holiday of Leon

Cartoon Art Museum Christmas card featuring Hanna-Barbera characters

A Hanna-Barbera Christmas, Day 11: And now, Hanna-Barbera's "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"

Cover of Dell Giant #41 ([Yogi Bear's Winter Sports]) (February 1961), pencils by Pete Alvarado, painted colors by Norm McGary

A Hanna-Barbera Christmas, Day 6: Ranger Smith starved the bears so much that winter they turned to vegetarianism

Cover of Yogi Bear #7 (Dell series, February-March 1962), art by Pete Alvarado (?)

A Hanna-Barbera Christmas, Day 3: VHS, The Technology of the Future

Hanna-Barbera videocassette advertising poster (1988)

Hellmouth: Hanna-Barbera, Night 25

Cover of Cartoon Network Presents #3 (October 1997), pencils and inks by Bill Alger, colors by Rick Taylor

Another spine-tingling Countdown to Halloween site to visit: Haunted Eve's Halloween Blog is fulla pumpkins! Jack O' Lanterns, to be precise! If you think pumpkins are for carving and not for eating, make haste, not...slowness...over to Haunted Eve's! (And don't forget to check out the whole graveyard of ghoulish Countdown to Halloween features!)

Hellmouth: Hanna-Barbera, Night 23

Cover of Yogi Bear Giant Size #2 (April 1993)

Another spine-tingling Countdown to Halloween site to visit: The Book of Monsters! It's exactly what it says on the tin...a monster a day that'll keep anybody away, in fantastic and fun illustrations by author and illustrator A. Briggs! (And don't forget to check out the whole graveyard of ghoulish Countdown to Halloween features!)

Hellmouth: Hanna-Barbera, Night 5

Cover of Yogi Bear (1992 Harvey series) #2 (January 1993)

Another spine-tingling Countdown to Halloween site to visit: Caffeinated Joe! He'll keep you awake all night...with horror! That's talkin' incisive episode recaps of the classic Friday the 13th TV series and creepy-gruesome movie clips! (Plus, Joe's a F.O.A....that's Friend of Aquaman, which means Joe's all right by me! (And don't forget to check out the whole graveyard of ghoulish Countdown to Halloween features!)

Saturday Morning Cartoon: Yogi Bear "Missile Bound Yogi"

A dramatic and moving cinematic plea to end mankind's senseless proclivity to make war on one another. This motion picture, made in the months after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion, highlights the failure of American troops to capture territory when foiled by the less-technically sophisticated forces of relative primitive rebels. Which only goes to prove: never get involved in a land war in Asia. Especially in "Risk."


Yogi Bear "Missile Bound Yogi" (1961) featuring the voices of Daws Butler as Yogi and Don Messick as Boo-Boo

Sadly, only a few years after this, Yogi and Boo-Boo, their squadron commander Jerry "The Mathers" Beaver, and Corporal Gumby, were killed in Vietnam.

Hail, hail, Bearsylvania, land of the brave and free!

Page from Four Color #1349 [Yogi Bear Visits the U.N.] (January 1962), script by Paul S. Newman, pencils and inks by Fred Fredericks