The Hair Bear Bunch 4

The Hair Bear Bunch 4 is the fourth issue of The Hair Bear Bunch series from Gold Key Comics. The issue date is November 1972 and the cover price is fifteen cents.

Keepers-Creepers Part One
Starring: The Hair Bear Bunch Summary: Tired of work detail after another failed escape attempt, the bunch sabotage their equipment, then raise money to buy more by raffling off the zoo. Hair Bear wins, and Peevly goes along with the ruse to teach him a lesson. While Peevly and Botch enjoy doing the bears' gardening, the bears run ragged doing the keeper's work tending to the other animals. After a long day, they settle down to rest for the night and get another call that Hippo is stuck in his tub. They get Fumbo to pull him out, but the elephant lands on top of the bears. They crawl to Peevly on their hands and knees to beg him to take the zoo back, but as they arrive, they overhear a phone call from the superintendent about an inspection the next morning. Hair secretly releases the other animals and loads them into a boxcar. When Peevly finds all the empty cages, Hair says he will return the animals if Peevly will sign a lifetime super service agreement. He reluctantly agrees, but when Hair brings him to the boxcar, it's missing.

Keepers-Creepers Part Two
Starring: The Hair Bear Bunch Summary: A bird says he saw some men hitch the boxcar to a train and chug away. Botch goes back to the zoo to head off the superintendent, while Peevly and the bears use a handcar to follow the train. Meanwhile, the brakeman discovers the animals and, not wanting to explain them to his boss, dumps the car on a nearby siding. The animals wake and go to look for the zoo. Hair and company reach the boxcar but find their friends gone. They follow their footprints until they are nearly run over by a gang of dirt bikers. When the dust settles the local wildlife complain about the biker nuisance destroying all their cacti. One of them tells where the others went. Once reunited, the zoo animals decide to help their new friends. They scare off the bikers for good. They return home and offer to share their lodgings with the desert animals until the cacti grow back. The superintendent is pleased with the new arrivals.

Blythe
(Advertising feature) Summary: A girl shows her friend how her Blythe doll's eyes change color.