[Oneiros93]

Trying to identify a comic I read as a very young kid (it might have been a book but I'm confident it was a comic). I read it around 1965/6 although the publication date could have been earlier.
It concerned a family of bears - much like the Berenstain Bears (although I've ruled them out) who go on an adventure through a creepy forest with anthropomorphic trees, an old castle etc.. The three youngest bears get lost and there's a scene that's vivid in my mind, where the father runs through fog looking for them and at first they think he's a ghost. My memory is that the art was pretty good, although my memory might be wrong.
Like I said, it's not the Berenstains although the style is similar. Maybe it was connected with them (although I can't find any reference to it) or they might have read it and it influenced their style
Thank you
Dave

[paw broon]

Hi Dave, I'm not going to be much help.  I had to look up Berenstain Bears as this is the first I've heard the name. I've seen 1 or 2 old Dutch strips with similarities - Herr Bommel and Tom Poes.
British comics had a cartoon strip, The Three Bears.  But I'm stuck after that.
Perhaps some other members might recall the story.  Good luck.

[Oneiros93]

Thanks for the reply.
I checked out Tom Poes - the episode with the 'Misty Swamp' looked promising but when I checked it out it sadly wasn't the one. The book/comic I recall was fully illustrated in colour, but the cover of 'The Misty Swamp' was very close to my memory.
Dave

[Robb_K]

Thanks for the reply.
I checked out Tom Poes - the episode with the 'Misty Swamp' looked promising but when I checked it out it sadly wasn't the one. The book/comic I recall was fully illustrated in colour, but the cover of 'The Misty Swamp' was very close to my memory.
Dave

Yes.  I can't remember any Tom Poes story with a Bear family in it Heer Bommel was always alone with no other Bears), nor any other Dutch publication with a Bear Family from the 1940s-1990s. I know the British "Three Bears", but the kind of humour in their strips doesn't seem to be the "fairy tale style" you describe in your post above.  If there were a British publication from those times that might be your story, I think Paw Broon would know it, and have already directed you to it.  I don't know much about obscure American mid 1960s funny animal comic books - mostly just Western Publishing's Gold Key series.  But I can't think of any fairy tale Three Bears-type stories.  I know UK's "Ruppert" ("Bruintje Beer", and Sweden's "Bamse"), but both are one bear alone, NOT a bear family.  It sounds like a stand-alone single (one-time) fairy-tale style story about a "Three Bears" type family travelling through an "Enchanted Woods" story, that might have been in a French publication.  Or, maybe it was a US reprint from a 1940s or 1950s Fairy Tale type of publication, like "Classics Illustrated Junior", "Fairy Tale Parade", "Tales From Mother Goose".

So, unfortunately, I can't help with your search.