The Flintstones

Western Publishing, also known as Western Printing and Lithographing Company, was a firm responsible for publishing the Little Golden Books and also the books and comics featured in the franchise of The Flintstones.

History[]

From 1938 to 1962, Western's comics came out under the Dell Comics imprint, who also handled the distribution and financing of the line. In 1962, Western decided to end its partnership with Dell and publish comics themselves, and set up Gold Key Comics.

This continued until the late 1970s, after which newsstand distribution was discontinued in favor of distribution to toy stores etc. under the "Whitman Comics" banner. They stopped publishing comics in 1984, and all their licenses have since gone to other publishers. Some of their comics were published under that name, especially March of Comics with former shoe brands.

Books[]

Whitman Tell-A-Tale[]

Cover Title Published
Hanna-Barbera's The Flintstones at the Circus 1963
Hanna-Barbera's The Rubbles and Bamm-Bamm: Problem Present 1964
Hanna-Barbera's Pebbles Flintstone: Daddy's Little Helper 1965
Hanna-Barbera's Pebbles Flintstone - ABC's 1966

Whitman Big Tell-A-Tale[]

Cover Title Published
Hanna-Barbera's The Flintstones: Picnic Panic 1965
Hanna-Barbera's The Flintstones: At the B Bar B 1965

Whitman Top Top Tales[]

Cover Title Published
Hanna-Barbera's The Flintstones and Dino 1961
Hanna-Barbera's Fred Flintstone: Bewildered Baby-Sitter with Pebbles 1963
Hanna-Barbera's Pebbles Flintstone: Runaway 1963

Little Golden Book[]

Cover Title Published Notes
Hanna-Barbera's The Flintstones 1961 Before their daughter Pebbles and their pet Dino, The Flintstones had a son named Junior and a giant pet brontosaurus named Harvey. Sadly however, they were not shown and they were deleted in the original series.
Hanna-Barbera's Cave Kids 1963 They appeared later in the comics by Gold Key.
Bamm-Bamm with Pebbles Flintstone 1963 N/A.

Big Golden Book[]

Cover Title Published
Hanna-Barbera's The Flintstones: Buried Treasure 1962
Bamm-Bamm with Pebbles Flintstone 1963
Pebbles Flintstone 1963

Other[]

Cover Title Published
Hanna Barbera’s The Flintstones (A Whitman Comic Book #4) 1962
Hanna-Barbera's The Flintstones: The Case of the Many Missing Things (Whitman Big Little Book) 1968