I have previously dealt with a number of comics featuring perhaps my favorite Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Huckleberry Hound, the blue hound dog voiced by Daws Butler. I’ve even already covered the UK’s Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear Weekly more than once, so why cover this particular issue of that title from 1967? Two words; Space Ghost! Or, is that Space Ghosts? Please to check out the cover:

Now, check out the covers to the following two issues:

See it yet? How about now?

Or now?

That’s right, for some reason on the cover the comic refers to the property in the plural, Space Ghosts. Now, being a man of a certain age I grew up watching the show and am just enough of a know-it-all that I like to think I know everything about it. But is it possible that at some point in its development was it called Space Ghosts (the cover art seems like it was taken from early promotional material) because Jan and Jace were also known as Space Ghosts? Was it called Space Ghosts in other English speaking characters for some reason? Or was it some kind of very mistake? I’m working on a mystery without any clues over here so if any of you have any idea what’s behind this you know how reach me.

As with previous issues of this title this one is a mix of what appears to be US produced material, which is good to great, and British material which is shaky to substandard.

One point of interest about the above ‘eh’ Jonny Quest strip?

Jonny’s packing heat! He couldn’t have gotten away with that in the cartoon series, even back then.

As much as I love British comics I must concede that on average their licensed comics are pretty awful and that does double when the material is more or less straight adventure. Take this double page spread of a Space Ghost installment featuring not so much Space Ghost, but someone who dresses up like him for kid’s parties fighting a guy in a dress.

Another example of the ‘meh’ quality of British licensed comic is The Impossibles strip, which is pretty painful for someone like me with fond memories of the slow. I’m just glad that Frankenstein Jr. was spared this sort of spectacularly lackadaisical, slapdash, off model treatment.

But as you can see the good stuff is pretty good.

And finally, an ad for Jelly Babies!