I know I’ve already done Huckleberry Hound Weekly,but I recently came across a fantastic comics download website called Comics of the Golden and Silver Age (check it out at http://comicsgoldenage.wordpress.com/) that had several more issues. Of course by this point the comic had morphed into Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear Weekly (though it was still plain Huckleberry Hound Weekly in the indicia) and had started a quick downhill slide in quality. Don’t get me wrong; in the issue presented here there’s still lots of really nice cartooning done (presumably) by Hanna-Barbara studio artists for the international market. I’m especially fond of the color cover strip featuring Huck, who seems very much on model (as we say in animation circles, if, that is, I actually belonged to animation circles and wasn’t just some wannabe fanboy animation freak) here. But as you’ll see there are some features that were definitely done locally as well as on the cheap.

And here’s the cover of another issue where poor Huck has been pushed off the cover entirely; I can’t complain about the quality of the art though.

And here’s a color double page strip from inside featuring Huck promising his triumphant return to the cover. He did, for a while, then things got kind of strange.

The website also features about a half dozen partial copies of Huckleberry Hound Weekly from later in the 60′s when obviously the contents reflected the H-B Studios then current output. Jonny Quest! Space Ghost! The Impossibles! Boy, I couldn’t wait to read these comics.

Then I did. When I said these were “partial” copies I meant the kid who saved these comics back in the 60′s were clearly interested in only the Jonny Quest serials. Which would be of course be good if the strips weren’t so bad. The art is not good, whoever wrote the stories may have never seen an episode of the series (in one strip Jonny is shown holding a gun) and, wow, look at the amount of zipatone on the page.

Not that this color strip is much better.