Quick Draw McGraw #2
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeQuick Draw McGraw #2 (Dell, April–June 1960) is the first issue of the dedicated ongoing Dell series for the property — picking up directly from the one-shot Four Color #1040 — and represents the comic medium's earliest sustained commitment to the full cast of The Quick Draw McGraw Show. By presenting Quick Draw McGraw, Baba Looey, Augie Doggie, Doggie Daddy, Snooper, and Blabber together across multiple anthology stories in a single 36-page package, the issue established the three-segment anthology format in print that mirrored the show's television structure, helping to cement those characters as a unified stable rather than isolated bits. As one of the earliest Hanna-Barbera licensed comics, it sits at the leading edge of a publishing wave that would define licensed funny-animal comics throughout the Silver Age.
In "Rude Awakening," Quick Draw McGraw’s overindulgence leads to a surreal daily cycle of sleep, nightmares, and accidental mayhem—until a dust storm rolls into town, and Bandanna Dan’s arrival coincides with everyone wearing bandannas. With Harvey Eisenberg handling both the interior art and cover pencils, this 1960 Dell classic blends slapstick chaos with a clever twist, as the town’s unexpected guest may be the real culprit behind Quick Draw’s wild dreams.
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The series was produced under Dell's long-running licensing arrangement with Hanna-Barbera Productions, the same partnership that had already launched Four Color tie-ins for Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear. All art in the issue — cover and interiors — was handled by Harvey Eisenberg, the Brooklyn-born animator-turned-comics artist who had worked alongside Joe Barbera since their MGM days and had become Dell/Western Publishing's go-to hand for Hanna-Barbera material; colleagues later nicknamed him 'the Carl Barks of Hanna-Barbera Comics.' The television show itself had only debuted in syndication on September 28, 1959, meaning this second comic issue arrived on newsstands while the cartoon was still in its original run, making the comics a direct promotional extension of an active television property.
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- Direct continuation of the series that began with Four Color (Dell) #1040 (Dec. 1959–Feb. 1960), which Dell internally counted as issue #1.
- All cover and interior art is by Harvey Eisenberg, who had personal professional ties to Hanna-Barbera founders Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera dating to their shared work on Tom & Jerry at MGM.
- The issue features the full trio of segment casts from the TV show: Quick Draw McGraw and Baba Looey (western stories), Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy (domestic comedy), and Snooper and Blabber (detective parody).
- Confirmed story titles include 'The Sleepy Gunslinger' (Quick Draw/Baba Looey), 'All Steamed Up' (Quick Draw/Baba Looey), 'Private-Eye Strain' and 'Rude Awakening' (Snooper/Blabber), 'Dear Dad's Bad Day' and 'The Sleep Walker' (Augie Doggie/Doggie Daddy), and the single-page back-cover gag 'Shoot-Out at Gopher Gulch.'
- At least one story from this issue — a Quick Draw McGraw tale with Eisenberg art — was later reprinted in Quick Draw McGraw (Western/Gold Key, 1962 series) #15 (June 1969), and a filler piece ('Wise Is As Wise Does') was reprinted in Yogi Bear (Western, 1962 series) #34 (October 1968).
- The Dell series ran eleven issues (1960–1962) before the numbering was continued seamlessly by Gold Key Comics, which published a further eleven issues through 1969.
- The television show the issue is based on was Hanna-Barbera's third TV series overall, debuting September 28, 1959, and was sponsored by Kellogg's; the comic therefore reached readers while the show was actively airing in its original syndication run.
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Quick Draw eats too much, falls asleep, has nightmares and shoots up the town - every day. Meanwhile Bandanna Dan, the bank robber, has come to town just as everyone dons bandannas against a dust storm. Turns out Dan is the sneaky crook/cook feeding Quick Draw too well, but he goes down to a hail of nightmare-sparked bullets. And townsfolk figure to feed Quick Draw even more so his gun belt won't fit!
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