2016 Comic Challenge 040 Hanna Barbara Presents #04

TITLE-Hanna Barbara Presents #04
PUBLISHER-Archie Comics

This is a comic I grabbed at a con. I love both Quick Draw McGraw and Magilla Gorilla. So seeing this for cheap and it starring two of my favorite Hanna Barbara superstars I had to get it.

The first story is with Magilla.Were the pet store owner sells Magilla. Who is shipped off to the Lost Monkey Mine.Magilla enters the cave and finds his new owners. Who look like your typical hillbillies from various cartoons. And Magilla discovers he is there to work in the mine. Magilla finds out from the other monkeys that he is there to work the mine. So he helps them escape.

This story really feels like an episode of Magilla Gorilla. And like the other Archie Hanna Barbara comics the art looks just like the cartoon.

The second story stars Quick Draw. And is your typical Quick Draw story. With McGraw being his normal dumbass self and his trusty sidekick having to do the heavy lifting.

And just like the Magilla story this one feels like an episode of the Quick Draw cartoon.

The third story is the stand out. In this one we get a team up between our two characters that appeared on the cover.

There is a gorilla that looks almost exactly like Magilla. Who is robbing towns in the old west. So Quick Draw McGraw tracks him down. And like what usually happens Quick Draw gets out smarted. So the criminal gorilla gets away.

At the same time Magilla is on vacation in the old west. He walks into a saloon. And is mistaken for the criminal gorilla. Soon after arriving in town Magilla meets up with the Killer Gorilla and is conned into trading clothes with him.

And now since he really looks like the Killer Gorilla,of course that means Quick Draw arrests Magilla.

By the end the mix up is fixed. And Magilla gets a bunch of reward money for helping capture the Killer Gorilla. So Magilla spends that money on bananas.

Now the first two stories are decent. They are nothing we haven't already seen in the stars TV shows. It is the third story that makes this issue stand out. I like the team up. And thought it was pretty well written.

Hanna Barbara Presents #04 gets a borrow.