(1965)

Western, 1946 Series
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Price
0.00 FREE
Pages
20
On-sale Date
1965
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
K. K. Publications Inc.
Editing
Chase Craig (editor); Del Connell (editor)

Issue Notes

Inside front cover and inside back cover are blank. Portions of the back cover may contain ads from various businesses that offered the book as a premium - or may be blank.

Designed and produced by Western Printing & Lithographing Co. Printed in U.S.A. (per indicia)
This issue has variants:

[White Wash] (Table of Contents)

The Flintstones / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Harvey Eisenberg
Inks
Harvey Eisenberg
Colors
Western Publishing Production Shop

Genre
humor; domestic
Characters
Fred Flintstone; Wilma Flintstone; Pebbles Flintstone
Synopsis
Pebbles white-paints a blue towel to cover up her little handprints.
Keywords
baby; handprints; misspelled creator name; towel; white paint

Indexer Notes

Joseph Barbera's last name is misspelled on this cover, as "BARBARA".

Pebbles' handprints are black on a dark blue towel, so they might not be clearly seen on the posted cover images. Related image on back cover.

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

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


Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

Photo Finish (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script
?
Pencils
Guillermo Cardoso
Inks
Guillermo Cardoso
Colors
Western Publishing Production Shop
Letters
Rome Siemon

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Pebbles! Pebbles!
Genre
humor; domestic
Characters
Fred Flintstone; Wilma Flintstone; Pebbles Flintstone; Barney Rubble; Betty Rubble; Bamm-Bamm Rubble; Dino; Mr. Pictograf (photographer); photo store clerk
Synopsis
After Fred drives off a professional baby photographer, he finds that taking baby pictures is not as easy as he thought.
Reprints
Keywords
baby pictures; contest; know-it-all; meta humor; photography; series of mishaps

Indexer Notes

This story is chock full of both the verbal and physical humor that was the hallmark of The Flintstones TV show at its best.

Meta Moment: Page 6, panel 5 - a deflated Fred leans on the leftmost panel border.

You Can Draw Pebbles! (Table of Contents: 3)

The Flintstones / activity / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
Western Publishing Production Shop
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Lightly draw a circle.
Genre
humor; domestic
Characters
Pebbles Flintstone
Keywords
art lessons

Indexer Notes

How to draw Pebbles, starting with a circle and adding-on other shapes until completed.

Jumbled Blocks (Table of Contents: 4)

The Flintstones / activity / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Guillermo Cardoso
Inks
Guillermo Cardoso
Colors
Western Publishing Production Shop
Letters
?; typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Fred is trying to teach Pebbles how to spell with her blocks.
Genre
humor; domestic
Characters
Fred Flintstone; Pebbles Flintstone
Keywords
scrambled word puzzle

Indexer Notes

Unscramble Pebbles' alphabet blocks to spell "dinosaur" and "mastodon".

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

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


Indexer Notes

Inside back cover.

[Inky-Dinky-Doo] (Table of Contents: 6)

The Flintstones / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Harvey Eisenberg
Inks
Harvey Eisenberg
Colors
Western Publishing Production Shop

Genre
humor; domestic
Characters
Pebbles Flintstone; Dino
Synopsis
Pebbles spills the bottle of ink that gives her the messy handprints seen on the front cover.
Keywords
baby; ink; kids-at-mischief

Indexer Notes

Theme continues from front cover illustration. Illustration shares back cover space with logo and ad copy for whichever firm is distributing the issue as a giveaway premium. Illustration comprises top third of page, lower two thirds can be blank if no named sponsor.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [White Wash]
    The Flintstones
  2. 1. [no title indexed]
  3. 2. Photo Finish
    The Flintstones
  4. 3. You Can Draw Pebbles!
    The Flintstones
  5. 4. Jumbled Blocks
    The Flintstones
  6. 5. [no title indexed]
  7. 6. [Inky-Dinky-Doo]
    The Flintstones
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Clint Maxwell
  • Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
  • Joe Torcivia
  • Jim Van Dore