Four Color #1067
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeFour Color #1067 marks the first solo comic book starring vehicle for Yogi Bear, the breakout Hanna-Barbera character who had already outgrown his supporting role on The Huckleberry Hound Show by the time this issue reached newsstands in December 1959. Arriving just as Yogi was on the cusp of being spun off into his own television program, the issue captures the character at the precise cultural inflection point between ensemble player and full-fledged star. It opened the door to five further Yogi Bear Four Color issues and eventually a long-running Gold Key series, establishing the template — Jellystone Park, picnic-basket schemes, the long-suffering Ranger, and Boo Boo's cautious conscience — that would define Yogi's comics persona for decades. As the Dell Four Color series itself served primarily as a try-out showcase for potential ongoing titles, this issue functioned as Yogi's formal audition for a standalone run, a role it passed with flying colors.
In "No News Is True News," a fugitive and his Mounted Police tracker crash-land in the woods, commandeering Yogi and Boo Boo’s favorite nap spots—complete with their snowplanes parked outside. When the bears take a ride, they stumble into an unexpected reunion with the convict’s friends, turning a quiet afternoon into a wild, snow-covered chase. Art by Harvey Eisenberg, whose distinctive style brings the whole escapade to life, both in story and on the cover.
Yogi Bear and Boo Boo launch a forest newspaper, but a simple misread note sends the whole woodland into a tizzy—Boo Boo’s misunderstanding turns a casual mention of Mel Moose into a rumor that he’s cozying up to Barney Bull, the forest’s self-proclaimed tough guy. The resulting chaos unfolds as the animals scramble to take sides, all based on a single, wildly misinterpreted line.
In "Air-Borne Bear," Yogi Bear’s wild dream of flying like a bird takes a sudden, unexpected turn when he sneaks into an airport and takes a seat in a waiting plane—only to find himself commandeered by a pair of crooks who force him into the pilot’s role, despite his complete lack of flying experience.
In "Bedded and Belted," Yogi and Boo Boo find their usual nap spot commandeered by an escaped convict and his Mounted Police pursuer, both too tired to notice the duo’s return. With their snowplanes parked outside, the unlikely trio sets off on a ride that leads straight into a surprise encounter with the fugitive’s pals—leaving the fate of the chase, and the forest’s peace, hanging in the balance.
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The issue was produced under Dell's longstanding partnership with Western Publishing, which handled editorial production while Dell financed and distributed. All interior art and the cover were drawn by Harvey Eisenberg, a Brooklyn-born animator who had worked alongside William Hanna and Joseph Barbera at MGM's Tom and Jerry unit before transitioning to comics full-time; his deep familiarity with the Hanna-Barbera characters and house style earned him the informal sobriquet 'the Carl Barks of Hanna-Barbera Comics.' Copyright on the issue was held by Hanna-Barbera Productions, and the on-sale date is confirmed by the Library of Congress 1960 Books and Pamphlets copyright record. The indicia title reads simply 'YOGI BEAR, No. 1067,' and the internal publisher code is designated YOGI.BEAR.O.S. #1067-5912 — the 'O.S.' denoting one-shot, per Dell's standard coding practice for the Four Color line.
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- First solo-starring comic book for Yogi Bear, published December 1, 1959, by Dell Comics (Four Color series, second series, #1067).
- Yogi Bear's absolute first comic book appearance predates this issue: he appeared as a supporting character in Four Color #990 — Huckleberry Hound (May–July 1959), per the Grand Comics Database.
- All interior art and the cover were drawn by Harvey Eisenberg, the primary Dell/Western artist for Hanna-Barbera licensed titles, who had a prior animation relationship with Hanna and Barbera dating to their MGM Tom and Jerry unit.
- The issue contains four complete stories — 'No News Is True News,' 'Air-Borne Bear,' 'Too Much to Bear,' and 'Bedded and Belted' — plus activity pages including a Yogi cutout and a board game page, running 36 pages in full color.
- Copyright on the issue was held by Hanna-Barbera Productions, with the internal code YOGI.BEAR.O.S. #1067-5912 confirming its one-shot status within Dell's Four Color coding system.
- This is the first of three Yogi Bear-specific Four Color issues (the others being #1104 and #1162), after which the character transitioned to a Gold Key ongoing series when Western Publishing split from Dell in 1962.
- Yogi Bear had debuted on television as a segment of The Huckleberry Hound Show in October 1958 and was given his own show, The Yogi Bear Show, in January 1961 — meaning this comic appeared during the peak of his early breakout popularity.
- One story in the issue, 'Too Much to Bear,' includes a sequence where Yogi breaks the fourth wall and addresses the reader directly, a narrative device noted in the GCD's sequence-level documentation.
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Reprinted in Yogi Bear Comic Album #1 (1960), Yogi Bear Goes to College #B199 (1961), Yogi Bear #28 (1967), Top Comics Yogi Bear #3 (1968), Yogi Bear #31 (1968), Yogi Bear #33 (1968), Yogi Bear #35 (1969), Yogi Bear #36 (1969), Hanna-Barbera Yogi Bear #[nn] (1983), Familien Flint #19/1968, Top Comics #312
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