Barney Bear Home Plate

Barney Bear Home Plate, a single 1979 comic from Fleming H. Revell Company, pairs the gentle, wholesome Barney Bear with a baseball theme. Written and drawn entirely by Al Hartley, the issue is a lighthearted, faith-adjacent slice of Americana from the tail end of the 1970s. It stands as a modest but charming artifact of Hartley’s long career in wholesome, character-driven comics.