Huckleberry Hound #5

(May-June 1960)

Weak in the Trees (Table of Contents: 1)

Huckleberry Hound / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Harvey Eisenberg

Inks

Harvey Eisenberg

Letters

Harvey Eisenberg (logo and title lettering)

Feature Logo

Huckleberry Hound [Dell Harvey Eisenberg Logo 1]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Huckleberry Hound

Synopsis

Never jump into a hammock with both ends tied to supple apple trees.

Reprints

• in Huckleberry Hound (Western, 1962 series) #32 (January 1968)

Keywords

apples; bombardment; hammock; trees; unwelcome surprise

Indexer Notes

Pantomime. Black and white on inside front cover.

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 (title lettering); Rome Siemon (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

• in Huckleberry Hound (Peveril Books, 1961 series) #[1964] (1963)
• in Huckleberry Hound (Western, 1962 series) #37 (April 1969)

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 "1960" in this original Dell printing. and "1969" for the Gold Key reprint.

Rock-A-Bye Boo Boo (Table of Contents: 3)

Yogi Bear / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Vic Lockman

Pencils

Harvey Eisenberg

Inks

Harvey Eisenberg

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Rome Siemon; Harvey Eisenberg (logo and title lettering)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Shut the door part way, Boo Boo!

Feature Logo

Yogi Bear [Harvey Eisenberg Logo 2]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Yogi Bear; Boo Boo Bear; Ranger Smith; Big Brian Bear

Synopsis

Tired of having to wait on a demanding Yogi hand and foot, Boo Boo rebels by disguising himself as a baby bear so that Yogi will wait on him for a change. The ruse takes a strange turn when a rushing underground river leads the pair to a valley of big bears, where full-grown Yogi is regarded as a "baby".

Reprints

• in Yogi Bear (Western, 1962 series) #39 (January 1970)

Keywords

baby disguise; forest setting; role reversal; ruse; size differential; strange valley; underground river; waterfall; wrong impression

Two Foxy Fellows (Table of Contents: 4)

Biddy Buddy / text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Harvey Eisenberg

Inks

Harvey Eisenberg

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Harvey Eisenberg (title lettering only); typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

One bright sunny morning Biddy Buddy sat motionless on the bank of his pond and gazed at his reflection in the water.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Biddy Buddy; fox

Synopsis

Biddy Buddy outfoxes a hungry fox.

Reprints

• in Yogi Bear (Western, 1962 series) #28 (April 1967)

Keywords

bramble; duck; fox; pond; reflection

Indexer Notes

Biddy Buddy is a little duck who evolved into the Hanna-Barbera character Yakky Doodle. He evolved from the little duck character in Hanna and Barbera's Tom and Jerry theatrical shorts. Harvey Eisenberg draws the fox in this story to look very much like Yakky Doodle’s recurring foe, Fibber Fox – at a time before either Yakky Doodle or Fibber Fox were established as TV characters.

Jam Session (Table of Contents: 5)

Pixie, Dixie and Mr. Jinks / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Harvey Eisenberg

Inks

Harvey Eisenberg

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Harvey Eisenberg (title and sound effects lettering only); Rome Siemon

First Line of Dialogue or Text

I've got to work out some new sounds for my Frantic Feline Combo today!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Pixie; Dixie; Mr. Jinks; The Frantic Felines (a band of trumpet-playing beatnik cats)

Synopsis

Pixie and Dixie try desperately to derail Mr. Jinks' newfound enthusiasm for loud drumming!

Reprints

• in Huckleberry Hound (Peveril Books, 1961 series) #[1964] (1963)

Keywords

band; comic obsession; drums; mallet; music; trumpets

The Helpless Helper (Table of Contents: 6)

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 Siemon (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

• in Huckleberry Hound (Western, 1962 series) #37 (April 1969)

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.

The Master's Touch (Table of Contents: 7)

Huckleberry Hound / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Harvey Eisenberg

Inks

Harvey Eisenberg

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Harvey Eisenberg

Feature Logo

Huckleberry Hound [Dell Harvey Eisenberg Logo 1]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Huckleberry Hound; art supplies salesman

Synopsis

Huck gears-up with the finest art supplies for a unexpected purpose.

Keywords

alternative uses; art supplies; artist

Indexer Notes

Pantomime. On final interior page of the comic. The lower right one-third of this page is reserved for the Dell Comics "Pledge to Parents."

The Jumper (Table of Contents: 8)

Huckleberry Hound / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Harvey Eisenberg

Inks

Harvey Eisenberg

Letters

Harvey Eisenberg

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Are you ready, Huckleberry?

Feature Logo

Huckleberry Hound [Dell Harvey Eisenberg Logo 1]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Huckleberry Hound; unseen pilot of airplane; farmer

Synopsis

Huck and his pilot miscalculate Huck's parachute jump, leading to an unconventional attempt at a do-over.

Keywords

airplane; miscalculation; parachute

Indexer Notes

Black and white on inside back cover.

Quick Dip (Table of Contents: 9)

Huckleberry Hound / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

?

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Huckleberry Hound

Keywords

advertising variance per issue

Indexer Notes

Color on back cover. Some copies replace this story with an advertisement for "New Kraft Jet-Puffed Marshmallows" (see below).

New Kraft Jet-Puffed Marshmallows (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

Kraft Marshmallows / advertisement / 1 page (report information)