COMIC BOOK STORY: "Friendship Fall-Out" (Dell Giant 48) (Patreon)

Yabba-dabba-doo! This date marks the 60th anniversary of Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera's modern Stone Age family! To celebrate the occasion, here is the first featured story that appeared in Dell Giant #48 (September 1961), drawn and inked by Harvey Eisenberg. 

Before working at Hanna-Barbera, Eisenberg had devised an animated television show with a prehistoric family. He partnered with Charles McKimson, art editor of Western Publishing, on the project but McKimson wanted to sign him as an employee rather than a partner, so Eisenberg refused. Later, when Eisenberg saw an animated version of The Honeymooners from Joe Barbera and writer/producer Alan Dinehart had been rejected by the network, he suggested a Stone Age setting, with the characters wearing animal skins for clothing.