Boys' and Girls' March of Comics #243 [Lazy Bones]

(1963)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

blank page(s) / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

Trailer To Trouble (Table of Contents: 2)

The Flintstones / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Pete Alvarado

Inks

Pete Alvarado

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Oh, boy! This is my idea of a swell vacation... coming to the woods in a trailer!

Feature Logo

The Flintstones [Western Interior Logo 1]

Genre

humor; domestic

Characters

Fred Flintstone; Wilma Flintstone; Barney Rubble; Betty Rubble; chiseling owner of Peaceful Park Trailer Camp; Billy Botts (bratty kid); Billy's mom; Billy's dad; police officers

Synopsis

Fred and Barney want to vacation in a trailer, while Wilma and Betty would prefer to stay at a hotel. Circumstances lead to Fred confusing his trailer with that of another family and facing kidnapping charges when he drives off with the wrong trailer containing a bratty kid.

Reprints

• in Golden Comics Digest (Western, 1969 series) #11 (July 1970)

Keywords

domestic quarreling; forest setting; kidnapping; kids-at-mischief; mixup; series of mishaps; trailer; vacation

Indexer Notes

This story is perfectly characterized and is very much in the mold of the first two "adult" seasons of the television series.

Story has rectangular dialogue balloons, in accordance with the “Early Gold Key style”.

Money Mix-Up (Table of Contents: 3)

The Flintstones / activity / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Pete Alvarado

Inks

Pete Alvarado

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Fred wants a new set of golf clubs and Wilma wants a new hat, but there is only enough money to buy one of the things they want.

Feature Logo

The Flintstones [Western Interior Logo 1]

Genre

humor; domestic

Characters

Fred Flintstone; Wilma Flintstone

Keywords

play money; spinner game

Indexer Notes

Divide up the (play) money according to the results of a spinner. Actually, an educational game teaching 1963 kids about the monetary give-and-take of marriage.

Fred and Barney's Puzzle Hunt (Table of Contents: 4)

The Flintstones / activity / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Pete Alvarado

Inks

Pete Alvarado

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Fred and Barney went hunting, but they did not have much luck. In fact, the only creature they got they could not take home.

Genre

humor; domestic

Characters

Fred Flintstone; Barney Rubble

Keywords

rebus puzzle

Indexer Notes

Work a rebus puzzle to learn what creature Fred and Barney caught... and why they could not take it home.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

blank page(s) / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover.

[Portraits] (Table of Contents: 6)

The Flintstones / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Pete Alvarado

Inks

Pete Alvarado

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor; domestic

Characters

Fred Flintstone; Wilma Flintstone; Barney Rubble

Synopsis

Separate rectangular shaped character portraits of Fred Flintstone, Wilma Flintstone, and Barney Rubble displaying happy expressions - along with the "March of Comics" logo. This differs from the "floating heads" technique often used on the back cover of March of Comics in that these illustrations are NOT just of the "heads" - but head and some upper-body in "portrait style".

The "March of Comics" logo runs about 2/3 of the way down the spine of the back cover.

Keywords

character portraits

Indexer Notes

The portraits comprise the top third of the back cover, in color. The remaining 2/3 of the back cover space is left blank to contain the name and logo of the business using the comic as a promotional item.