The Flintstones #46 [12-cent cover]

(June 1968)

Cheer! Cheer! The gang’s all here... (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Gold Key Comics; Walt Disney Comics Digest / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Gone With the Bird (Table of Contents: 2)

The Flintstones / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

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Ugh! What’s the matter, Wilma… Have you changed your mind about going on a picnic?

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The Flintstones [Western Interior Logo 1]

Genre

humor; domestic

Characters

Fred Flintstone; Wilma Flintstone; umbrella-birds; "bird-rental" man; Cyclone (riding-hawk); three bird-watchers

Synopsis

Fred and Wilma’s picnic is interrupted by a rainstorm. When Fred picks two “umbrella-birds” off a tree to shield them from the rain, Wilma’s umbrella-bird carries her off to the umbrella-birds’ nesting island.

Reprints

• in The Flintstones Annual (World Distributors, 1963 series) #1970, #1970
• in Familia Flintstone (Egmont România, 1993 series) #1/1995 (1995)

Keywords

birds; earthquake; island; picnic; rainstorm; volcano

Private-Eye-Yi-Yi (Table of Contents: 3)

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Vic Lockman

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Please Perry… Hire me as your helper! I’m fed up with quarry work… I want to do something exciting!

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The Flintstones [Western Interior Logo 1]

Genre

humor; domestic

Characters

Fred Flintstone; Perry Gunnite; neighboring shopkeeper; two admiring kids; Mrs. Conklin; alley-saurus; diamond smuggler; two Bedrock police officers

Synopsis

Fred wants to work with Perry Gunnite as a detective, but Perry dismisses him… until Perry realizes that he’s locked himself out of his own office! He can’t be seen climbing through a window or forcing open his own door for fear of embarrassment, as his office is constantly surrounded by admirers. He schemes to give Fred an audition for detective work, and sets him on a trail that will result in Fred’s breaking-down Perry’s back-door for him! Things do not go as Perry planned…

Reprints

• in The Flintstones Annual (World Distributors, 1963 series) #1970
• in Семейство Флинтстоун (Егмонт България [Egmont Bulgaria], 1993 series) #1/1993 (1993)

Keywords

admirers; detective; dogged persistence; embarrassment; false trail; locked-out; outsmarting one’s-self; ulterior motives

Gold Key Comics Club News (Table of Contents: 4)

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Gold Key Comics Club Welcomes New Members

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Gold Key Comics Club

Keywords

editorial feature

Indexer Notes

Requests for reader-submitted jokes and drawings. “Gold Key Comics Club Membership Card” to sign, cut out, and carry. There are four consecutive Gold Key Comics Club pages, comprising the centerfold.

Reader's Page Animals (Table of Contents: 5)

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Our readers (that's you) are proving every day what talented artists they are.

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Gold Key Comics Club

Keywords

animals; reader participation

Indexer Notes

Reader-submitted drawings of animals.

Reader's Page Airplanes (Table of Contents: 6)

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Our readers (that's you) are proving every day what talented artists they are.

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Gold Key Comics Club

Keywords

airplanes; reader participation

Indexer Notes

Reader-submitted drawings of airplanes.

Jokes on You (Table of Contents: 7)

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What’s lighter than a feather, but harder to hold?

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Gold Key Comics Club

Genre

humor

Characters

Gold Key Kid

Synopsis

Jokes and riddles submitted by readers.

Keywords

jokes; reader participation; riddles

The Vanishing Tree (Table of Contents: 8)

Cave Kids / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

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Vic Lockman

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Phil De Lara

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Progress is progressing at an amazing rate in Bedrock…

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Cave Kids Western Interior Logo 1

Genre

humor; children

Characters

Izzy Einstone; Sandy Stone; Small Stuff; Rocky Ranger; Flappy the Flapasaurus; Mr. Fizz; Supra-Antelope

Synopsis

Kid-inventor Izzy Einstone creates the first “automatic weapon” – a club from which pops a sharp-billed woodpecker, or a boxing glove. Kid-hero Rocky Ranger cries foul. With every kid armed with an automatic weapon, he is essentially “out of the heroic-rescue business”. Izzy encourages Rocky to go into “aerial advertising” – skywriting the names of clients by releasing a big bag of dust from his flying flapasaurus in the shape of letters and words. This works… for a short while.

Reprints

• in The Flintstones Annual (World Distributors, 1963 series) #1970

Keywords

enterprise; hero; ingenuity; inventor; prehistoric invention or appliance; skywriting; weapons

Prehistoric Graveyard (Table of Contents: 9)

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Facing one of the longest, most fashionable, and most famous streets in the world, Wilshire Boulevard, in Los Angeles, California, lies a five hundred thousand-year old graveyard of the prehistoric animal kingdom.

Genre

non-fiction

Synopsis

Text feature on the La Brea Tar Pits.

Reprints

• from The Flintstones (Western, 1962 series) #11 (June 1963)

Keywords

educational feature

Indexer Notes

© 1963, Western Publishing Company, Inc. No Hanna-Barbera characters.

The Sculptor (Table of Contents: 10)

The Flintstones / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

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Vic Lockman

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Lunch hour! Let’s go, Barney!

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The Flintstones [Western Interior Logo 1]

Genre

humor; domestic

Characters

Fred Flintstone; Barney Rubble; Mr. Slater (Fred and Barney's boss); contest judge

Synopsis

During their lunch hours at the quarry, Fred and Barney have been chiseling a caricature of their boss Mr. Slater out of stone. The boss is not flattered and orders the sculpture destroyed – until he learns of a televised sculpting contest, and considers the free publicity he and the quarry will get if the boys win.

Reprints

• in The Flintstones Annual (World Distributors, 1963 series) #1970

Keywords

contest; quarry; sculpture; stone

Indexer Notes

For reasons unknown, the TV character of quarry boss “Mr. Slate” was never used in the Flintstones comics by Western Publishing. Instead, a character who at best only marginally resembled Hanna-Barbera’s design for “Mr. Slate” – and called “Mr. Slater” – was used in the role of Fred’s boss. When Charlton Comics assumed the license to publish The Flintstones in 1970, the same “off” character design was used, but the character was referred to as “Mr. Slate”. The name “Mr. Slate” and the proper character design for the character would not come together until the first issue of The Flintstones published by Marvel Comics in 1977.

[Fit to be Tied] (Table of Contents: 11)

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Oh, dear! You got a different tie from every member of the family… and they’re all coming to your birthday dinner tonight!

Genre

humor; domestic

Characters

Fred Flintstone; Wilma Flintstone; relatives

Synopsis

Fred wears a “train of ties” to avoid offending his relatives.

Reprints

• From The Flintstones daily (McNaught Syndicate) 1963. Month and day not listed.

Keywords

gift; relatives; reused story; tie

Indexer Notes

Colorized reprint of The Flintstones daily newspaper strip, from 1963. Four strips are reprinted to the page. If this gag seemed familiar to readers of the time, it might be because it was redrawn by Pete Alvarado as a “six-panel, one-page gag” for The Flintstones (Western, 1962 Series) #40 June 1967 – six issues prior. But, having been published in newspapers in 1963, Gene Hazelton’s comic strip version actually came first. The dialogue in both versions is exactly the same – save for one additional line for Wilma in the Alvarado comic book version. Double-dipping on the part of some gag writer, perhaps?

[Baa-Baa Block Sleep] (Table of Contents: 12)

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Confound that Barney! All that racket over there! How am I supposed to sleep?

Genre

humor; domestic

Characters

Fred Flintstone; Wilma Flintstone; Barney Rubble

Synopsis

The “baa-ing” sound of Barney’s “two-sheep lawn mower” is keeping Fred awake.

Reprints

• From The Flintstones daily (McNaught Syndicate) 1963. Month and day not listed.

Keywords

prehistoric invention or appliance; sleep problems

Indexer Notes

Colorized reprint of The Flintstones daily newspaper strip, from 1963. Four strips are reprinted to the page.

[Tell-Tale Tracks] (Table of Contents: 13)

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Fred, how sweet! You’ve been brushing up on your Cha-Cha-Cha!

Genre

humor; domestic

Characters

Fred Flintstone; Wilma Flintstone; Dino

Synopsis

Wilma deduces that Fred has been practicing his dancing – “through the courtesy of Fred’s two (dirty) feet” (to paraphrase the theme song) on her clean floor.

Reprints

• From The Flintstones daily (McNaught Syndicate) 1962. Month and day not listed.

Keywords

best of intentions; dancing; footprints

Indexer Notes

Colorized reprint of The Flintstones daily newspaper strip, from 1962. Four strips are reprinted to the page.

[Water-Beds] (Table of Contents: 14)

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It’s a darling cottage, but isn’t it dangerous with the high tide coming in tonight?

Genre

humor; domestic

Characters

Wilma Flintstone; vacation cottage manager; maid

Synopsis

Concerned that a coming high tide will swamp a prospective ocean-front vacation cottage overnight, Wilma finds that the property manager has installed beds in the shape of small boats “…for your absolute safety”.

Reprints

• From The Flintstones daily (McNaught Syndicate) 1963. Month and day not listed.

Keywords

beds; boats; high tide; ingenuity; vacation cottage

Indexer Notes

Colorized reprint of The Flintstones daily newspaper strip, from 1963. Four strips are reprinted to the page. This strip completes a single page of four.

[Best Vet Yet!] (Table of Contents: 15)

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What’s wrong with Dino, Fred?

Genre

humor; domestic

Characters

Fred Flintstone; Dino; Joe Rockhead(?); veterinarian; nurse

Synopsis

Fred takes Dino to a vet that is especially good at “understanding animals”.

Reprints

• From The Flintstones daily (McNaught Syndicate) 1962. Month and day not listed.

Keywords

sick pet; veterinarian

Indexer Notes

Colorized reprint of The Flintstones daily newspaper strip, from 1962. Four strips are reprinted to the page.

[Snake-Belt] (Table of Contents: 16)

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Use Seat Belts and Live Longer! (sign)

Genre

humor; domestic

Characters

Fred Flintstone; Wilma Flintstone

Synopsis

Wilma questions if having a python wrapped around her, acting as a car seat-belt, will really help her live longer.

Reprints

• From The Flintstones daily (McNaught Syndicate) 1963. Month and day not listed.

Keywords

best of intentions; car; prehistoric invention or appliance; python; safety; seat-belt

Indexer Notes

Colorized reprint of The Flintstones daily newspaper strip, from 1963. Four strips are reprinted to the page.

[Don’t Rush Her!] (Table of Contents: 17)

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Hurry and grow-up, will you?!!

Genre

humor; domestic

Characters

Fred Flintstone; Pebbles Flintstone

Synopsis

After doing lots of difficult housework, Fred tells baby Pebbles to “grow up”, so he can have some help.

Reprints

• From The Flintstones daily (McNaught Syndicate) 1963. Month and day not listed.

Keywords

anticipation; baby; housework

Indexer Notes

Colorized reprint of The Flintstones daily newspaper strip, from 1963. Four strips are reprinted to the page.

[Fred’s Spare Tire Ire] (Table of Contents: 18)

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But I tell you he does!!

Genre

humor; domestic

Characters

Fred Flintstone; Wilma Flintstone; two kids

Synopsis

At the beach, two kids with inner-tubes around their waists, wonder if Fred has one under his full-body swim suit – or if he’s just fat. Adding insult to injury, they also think he’s Wilma’s “daddy”.

Reprints

• From The Flintstones daily (McNaught Syndicate) 1963. Month and day not listed.

Keywords

beach; inner-tubes; kids; overweight; swim suit; wrong impression

Indexer Notes

Colorized reprint of The Flintstones daily newspaper strip, from 1963. Four strips are reprinted to the page. This strip completes a single page of four.

[Rooster's Repose] (Table of Contents: 19)

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Gold Key Comics Club Mini-Comics

Genre

humor

Characters

rooster; pig; cow; farmer; duck

Synopsis

What does a rooster do once he’s awakened everyone on the farm? He goes back to sleep.

Keywords

farm; rooster; sleep

Indexer Notes

Pantomime. Top half of page.

[Ski-daddle] (Table of Contents: 20)

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Genre

humor

Characters

skier

Synopsis

A frustrated skier abandons the slopes, and finds a more suitable use for his equipment.

Keywords

alternative uses; skis

Indexer Notes

Pantomime. Lower half of page.

Dinosauria Iguanodon (Table of Contents: 21)

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Loping across the European continent of a hundred million years ago, the iguanodon was a harmless plant-eating dinosaur, despite its stern appearance.

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Gold Key Comics Club Dinosauria with Gold Key Comics Club Emblem

Genre

non-fiction; math & science

Keywords

educational feature

Indexer Notes

Illustrated text article on the iguanodon.

Sweet Music from Gold Key Comics (Table of Contents: 22) (Expand) /

Gold Key Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

3 Complete Fishing Outfits (Table of Contents: 23) (Expand) /

Niresk Fishing Outfits / advertisement / 1 page (report information)