Yogi Bear #24

(April 1966)

[Drip-Drip-Drip!] (Table of Contents: 1)

Yogi Bear / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Pete Alvarado

Inks

?

Letters

?

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Yogi Bear

Synopsis

Yogi silences an annoying drip in his cave.

Keywords

caves; drip; need-for-peace-and-quiet; sleep problems

Indexer Notes

Pantomime. On inside front cover.

Fun Valley (Table of Contents: 2)

Yogi Bear / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Vic Lockman

Pencils

John Carey

Inks

?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Rome Siemon

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Yeek! The ranger’s repetitious signs have finally worked! People no longer feed us!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Boo Boo Bear; Yogi Bear; Ranger Smith; Oweegi Bear (great granddaddy of Yogi, in flashback); Bee Bee Bear (flashback); three 19th century tourists (flashback); 19th century ranger with old-time mustache (flashback)

Synopsis

Using natural attractions, such as caves, a smooth, glacier-like rock-face that ends in a waterfall, and a tipping, balanced rock, Yogi turns a section of Jellystone Park into an amusement area, charging picnic food as admission. Ranger Smith is baffled by the legality of the situation, and hires a computer service to unearth an arcane 19th century law to stymie Yogi.

Keywords

19th century; alternative uses; amusement; enterprises; ingenuity; laws

The Old-Youngsters (Table of Contents: 3)

Pixie, Dixie and Mr. Jinks / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

John Carey

Inks

?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Rome Siemon

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Duck, Dixie… Jinksy is winding up to peg that apple core! He’s about to attack!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Dixie; Mr. Jinks; Pixie; Ranger Smith; Mr. Twiddle (from Wally Gator, as a ranger)

Synopsis

Pixie and Dixie convince Mr. Jinks that it is “Be Kind to Old Folks Week”, and then show up posing as their own grandfathers.

Reprints

• in Huckleberry Hound Annual (World Distributors, 1960 series) #1969 (1969)

Keywords

forest rangers; hoaxes; Jellystone National Park; senior citizens

Bright Little Dimwit (Table of Contents: 4)

Yakky Doodle / text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Phil De Lara

Inks

?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Going around a bend in the path one day, Yakky Doodle came upon Fibber Fox.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Chopper; Yakky Doodle; Fibber Fox

Synopsis

Fibber Fox uses a "follow-the-trail" game to lure Yakky into his hungry clutches.

Keywords

cliffs; games; lures; rivers

[Beggar’s Picnic] (Table of Contents: 5)

Yogi Bear / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

John Carey

Inks

?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Rome Siemon

First Line of Dialogue or Text

What say we go on a picnic today?

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Boo Boo Bear; Yogi Bear

Synopsis

The bears take everything they need to have a picnic – except the food, which begging will provide.

Keywords

begging; picnics

[Adventures in Ice-Fishing] (Table of Contents: 6)

Yogi Bear / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

John Carey

Inks

?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Yogi Bear

Synopsis

Yogi applies a new and efficient method to ice-fishing.

Reprints

• in Yogi Bear Picture Book (P.B.S. Limited, 1973 series) #1973 (1973)

Keywords

alternative uses; ice-fishing; winter setting

Indexer Notes

Pantomime.

A Joker Goes Wild (Table of Contents: 7)

Yogi Bear / comic story / 7.5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Pete Alvarado

Inks

?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Rome Siemon

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Say, Boo Boo, that fella is new around the park, isn’t he?

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Boo Boo Bear; Yogi Bear; Ranger Smith; Wacky (circus-clown-bear); fisherman; husband and wife tourists; Wacky’s trainer; circus side-show customers

Synopsis

Wacky, a circus-bear who ordinarily works slapstick routines with clowns, escapes for a sojourn in Jellystone Park. Wacky does not speak (as do Yogi, Boo Boo and most of the other park animals), but communicates only through gestures, facial expressions, and a goofy, but winning, smile. After head-butting Yogi and Boo Boo, he steals Yogi’s clothes and proceeds through the park performing his physical pranks on others, who misidentify him as Yogi.

Keywords

circus; clown; deleted or edited scenes; imposter; mistaken identity

Indexer Notes

This story appears to have had a half-page excised for the Statement of Ownership which follows. While dressed as Yogi, Wacky clonks Ranger Smith with a wastebasket, smacks a fisherman in the face with a fish, and juggles a tourist couple’s oranges having each of them hit the man on the head and smooshes a large chocolate cake onto the woman’s head. Yogi retrieves his clothes from Wacky, who is now in the custody of his trainer – and, appearing as “a brown bear in those very same clothes” – encounters Wacky’s victims in reverse order, and receives the expected retribution. As such, he gets hit with another tourist cake and oranges (page 7, panels 3-4) – but then runs directly into the waste-basket-toting Ranger Smith (page 7, panels 5-7), without any sort of reverse-retribution from the fisherman. But, as he runs into Ranger Smith, he is dripping wet, indicating that the meeting with the fisherman – totaling a half-page – was cut.

Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation (Table of Contents: 8)

statement of ownership / 0.5 page (report information)

Script

Howard L. Anderson (business manager, credited)

Letters

typeset

Keywords

government reportings; regulations

Indexer Notes

Statement of Ownership for September 28, 1965. Prepared by H.L. Anderson (business manager). Reported total distribution: 251,027 (12 month average), 254,209 (nearest issue). Lower half of page.

Buccaneer Bear (Table of Contents: 9)

Yogi Bear / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Vic Lockman

Pencils

John Carey

Inks

?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Rome Siemon

First Line of Dialogue or Text

See, Dirk… Don’t they soften even your cold heart?

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Boo Boo Bear; Yogi Bear; Dirk (pickpocket pirate); Dirge (pickpocket pirate)

Synopsis

Would-be pickpocket pirates Dirk and Dirge are so impressed by Yogi and Boo Boo’s ability to attract crowds of tourists with their sympathy-inducing begging techniques that they use the bears to hold the attentions of the crowds on the Jellystone Riverboat sightseeing tours, while they sneak aboard to pick the patrons’ pockets.

Reprints

• in Yogi Bear Picture Book (P.B.S. Limited, 1973 series) #1973 (1973)

Keywords

begging; diversions; pickpockets; riverboats

[Mis-Adventures in Ice-Fishing] (Table of Contents: 10)

Boo Boo / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

John Carey

Inks

?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Boo Boo Bear

Synopsis

Boo Boo shows us how not to ice-fish.

Keywords

alternative uses; ice-fishing; winter setting

Indexer Notes

Pantomime. Nice counterpoint to earlier ice-fishing gag.

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

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American Seeds / advertisement / 1 page (report information)