The Flintstones #46
In "Gone With the Bird," young inventor Izzy Einstone takes his latest gadget to the extreme—creating a club that shoots out a sharp-billed woodpecker, sparking a wave of kid-powered "automatic weapons" across Bedrock. Fearing he's been outdone, hero Rocky Ranger finds himself sidelined, until Izzy suggests a new path: aerial advertising, using a flapasaurus to skywrite client names in dust. Written by Vic Lockman and illustrated by Phil De Lara, with cover art by De Lara, this 1968 Western Publishing gem captures the zany spirit of the era in a 12-cent comic.
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Kid-inventor Izzy Einstone creates the first “automatic weapon” – a club from which pops a sharp-billed woodpecker, or a boxing glove. Kid-hero Rocky Ranger cries foul. With every kid armed with an automatic weapon, he is essentially “out of the heroic-rescue business”. Izzy encourages Rocky to go into “aerial advertising” – skywriting the names of clients by releasing a big bag of dust from his flying flapasaurus in the shape of letters and words. This works… for a short while.
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