Huckleberry Hound #37

(April 1969)

Amazing $1 Art Offer (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Colonial Studios / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Time Jumper (Table of Contents: 2)

Huckleberry Hound / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Vic Lockman

Pencils

Harvey Eisenberg

Inks

Harvey Eisenberg

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Harvey Eisenberg (logo and story title only); Rome Siemen (rest of story)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

It's just awful the way some o' these stories end up! Doggone!

Feature Logo

Huckleberry Hound [Dell Harvey Eisenberg Logo 2 Single Line of Letters]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Huckleberry Hound; librarian; Bad Cactus Carl (western villain); western townsfolk; Sir Caddy (villainous knight); Sir Caddy's steed; King Archie

Synopsis

Unlocking the secret of an unlikely method of time travel, Huck sets out to right some of history’s wrongs.

Reprints

• from Huckleberry Hound (Dell, 1960 series) #5 (May-June 1960)

Keywords

armor; art or lettering modification; books; clocks; doors; ingenuity; king; knight; library; medieval setting; outlaw; roads; six-gun; time travel; unlikely hero; western setting

Indexer Notes

Huck travels a "timeway" ("a freeway through the ages"), made up of winding brick paths leading to different doors for various years and time periods. His own entry-door is marked "1969" for this reprint, and "1960" in the original printing.

Letting Off Steam (Table of Contents: 3)

Yogi Bear / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Pete Alvarado

Inks

Steve Steere

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Rome Siemen

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Erks! There goes Old Fiftful Geyser again! Everytime it lets off a blast, it wakes me up!

Feature Logo

Yogi Bear [Western Logo 2]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Yogi Bear; Boo Boo Bear; Ranger Smith; various tourists; cement truck driver

Synopsis

Yogi attempts to silence Jellystone Park's Old Fiftful Geyser, which regularly disrupts his sleep.

Reprints

• from Dell Giant (Dell, 1959 series) #41 - Yogi Bear's Winter Sports (February 1961)

Keywords

best-laid-plans; geyser; national park; need-for-peace-and-quiet; outsmarting one’s-self; sleep problems

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

Gold Key Comics Club / preview (from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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

Gold Key Comics Club / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Reader-submitted "doodles", made from squiggles, various letters of the alphabet, and numbers.

Gold Key Comics Club Holiday Offer (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

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

Jokes on You (Table of Contents: 7)

Gold Key Comics Club / text article / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Why do we seem to always find things in the last place we look?

Characters

Gold Key Kid

Keywords

jokes; riddles

Indexer Notes

Jokes and riddles submitted by readers.

The Helpless Helper (Table of Contents: 8)

Huckleberry Hound / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Harvey Eisenberg

Inks

Harvey Eisenberg

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Harvey Eisenberg (logo and story title only); Rome Siemen (rest of story)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Traffic! Smog! Noise! There comes a time in every hound's life when he just can't take the city anymore!

Feature Logo

Huckleberry Hound [Dell Harvey Eisenberg Logo 1]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Huckleberry Hound; Myopic Q. Mole, Esquire

Synopsis

Fleeing the city for the peace and quiet of the country, do-gooder Huck becomes the self-appointed protector of a nearsighted mole who has decided to live on the surface, rather than remain underground. He should have minded his own business.

Reprints

• from Huckleberry Hound (Dell, 1960 series) #5 (May-June 1960)

Keywords

best of intentions; city; country; forest setting; fourth-wall-breaking; leave-well-enough-alone; mole; need-for-peace-and-quiet; protector; series of mishaps; unintended slapstick consequences

Indexer Notes

As a former animator, Harvey Eisenberg nicely renders several instances of cartoon slapstick violence – all of which happen to Huck. Fourth-Wall Flouting: Huck directly addresses the readers on page seven, panel six.

Sir Huckleberry and the Dragon (Table of Contents: 9)

Huckleberry Hound / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Joe Barbera (writer of original cartoons 1958); Warren Foster (writer of original cartoons 1959); ? (adaptation of existing cartoon bits into original story)

Pencils

Harvey Eisenberg

Inks

Harvey Eisenberg

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Harvey Eisenberg (logo and story title only); Rome Siemen

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Brave knights, there is a fire-eating dragon in my kingdom! If there is one among you who will volunteer to capture the beast, let him step forward!

Feature Logo

Huckleberry Hound [Dell Harvey Eisenberg Logo 2 Single Line of Letters]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Huckleberry Hound; king; knights; horse; dragon; tower guard

Synopsis

Sir Huckleberry Hound is stuck with the job of capturing a dragon.

Reprints

• from Huckleberry Hound (Dell, 1960 series) #8 (November-December 1960)

Keywords

battle of wits; cartoon adaptation; dragon; fourth-wall-breaking; historical setting; horse; knights; practical jokes; reused story; trickery; unlikely hero

Indexer Notes

Not an actual adaptation of a Huckleberry Hound television cartoon, but an original story with gag-elements taken or otherwise adapted from such Hound cartoons as “Dragon-Slayer Huck” (1958), “Tricky Trapper” (1958), “Somebody’s Lion” (1959), and “Knight School” (1959). At times, just as they would in a cartoon, both Huck and the dragon address the audience (readers). Possible script or lettering error: In the first line (transcribed above) the dragon is described as a "fire-eating dragon". Should it have been "fire-breathing dragon"?

[Car Wash] (Table of Contents: 10)

Gold Key Comics Club Mini-Comics / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

?

Genre

humor

Characters

husband; wife; two kids; car wash attendant

Synopsis

When the line for the morning shower is too long, the husband skates through a car wash to save time.

Keywords

alternative uses; car wash; long wait; shower

Indexer Notes

Pantomime. Top half of page.

Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation (Table of Contents: 11)

statement of ownership / 0.5 page (report information)

Script

Richard W. Eiger

Letters

typeset

Keywords

government reporting; regulations

Indexer Notes

Statement of Ownership for September 27, 1968. Prepared by Richard W. Eiger. Reported total distribution: 236,986 (12 month average), 221,287 (nearest issue). Lower half of page.

204 pc. Revolutionary War Soldiers set Only $1.98 (Table of Contents: 12) (Expand) /

Revolutionary War Soldiers / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Win $1,000 College Scholarship (Table of Contents: 13) (Expand) /

Junior Sales Club of America / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Make Money Get Prizes with Fast Selling American Seeds (Table of Contents: 14) (Expand) /

American Seed Co. / advertisement / 1 page (report information)