Changes: Western Publishing

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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.

Comics

Main article: The Flintstones (Western Publishing)

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

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

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+|Before their daughter [[Pebbles Flintstone|Pebbles]] and their pet [[Dino]], The Flintstones had a son named Junior and a giant pet [[Brontosaurus|brontosaurus]] named Harvey. Sadly however, they were not shown and they were deleted in the [[The Flintstones (TV series)|original series]].
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