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Cover code: 10006-806. Last 12-cent issue. 15-cent variants may exist. On-sale date from 1968 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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Ad for the first issue of Walt Disney Comics Digest. The cover of the issue is reproduced. "On sale May 21 wherever fine magazines are sold... Only 50-cents" The “all new” issue of Walt Disney Comics Digest, led off with a reprint of Carl Barks' "Secret of Atlantis" (title created for this issue), and had reprints of "Mickey and the Beanstalk" and "Babes in Toyland". But there was more "new" material than would be in future issues, with Tony Strobl carrying much of the load aided by Pete Alvarado - and with Pluto and Super Goof by Paul Murry.
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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.
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Reader-submitted drawings of animals.
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Reader-submitted drawings of airplanes.
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© 1963, Western Publishing Company, Inc. No Hanna-Barbera characters.
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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.
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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?
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Colorized reprint of The Flintstones daily newspaper strip, from 1963. Four strips are reprinted to the page.
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Colorized reprint of The Flintstones daily newspaper strip, from 1962. Four strips are reprinted to the page.
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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.
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Colorized reprint of The Flintstones daily newspaper strip, from 1962. Four strips are reprinted to the page.
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Colorized reprint of The Flintstones daily newspaper strip, from 1963. Four strips are reprinted to the page.
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Colorized reprint of The Flintstones daily newspaper strip, from 1963. Four strips are reprinted to the page.
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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.
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Pantomime. Top half of page.
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Pantomime. Lower half of page.
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Illustrated text article on the iguanodon.
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Black and white ad on inside back cover, with piano sheet music and lyrics. The characters of Woody Woodpecker, Daffy Duck, and Bugs Bunny are repurposed from existing comic stories or covers. 1968 publisher’s ad promoting Gold Key’s funny animal / humor comics. Pictured are the covers of Donald Duck (Western, 1962 Series) #88 June 1963, The Flintstones (Western, 1962 Series) #44 February 1968, Walt Disney Presents The Jungle Book (Western, 1968 Series) #1 March 1968, Yogi Bear (Western, 1962 Series) #20 April 1965, and Marge’s Little Lulu (Western, 1962 Series) #187 March 1968. Sixteen additional Gold Key titles are listed in the ad – including FIVE that did not publish a single issue in 1968: Secret Squirrel, Quick Draw McGraw, Ruff 'n Reddy [sic], Milton the Monster, and Laurel and Hardy.
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Fishing equipment offered via mail order (1968 models). Color ad on back cover.
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