Les 3 Ours en Ballon

Les 3 Ours en Ballon is a hardcover French comic book featuring The Hair Bear Bunch. The issue date is 1977.

Les 3 Ours en Ballon
(reprinted from The Hair Bear Bunch 1) Starring: The Hair Bear Bunch Summary: The Hair Bear Bunch run back to the zoo just as the gates are closing. Botch springs a lawnmower net trap to catch them, but catches Peevly instead. The trio return to their cave through the secret entrance. Peevly finds them there pretending to sleep, and says if they leave the zoo again, he'll send them back to live in the forest. Hair Bear conspires with the other animals to convince Peevly that he's sick. When Peevly goes to lie down, Hair Bear paints spots on his face and pretends to be a doctor, prescribing a six-month vacation. The ruse works, but Peevly's replacement Grunch seems tougher than Peevly was.

Exhausted after Grunch puts them on work detail, The Hair Bear Bunch escape on their Cloudburst Balloon Bike and go search for Peevly. They find him relaxing on a beach vacation and plead with him to return, but he refuses. Grunch and Botch catch up and chase the bears around the beach. The Bunch evades them and hides at Peevly's hotel. They disguise themselves as employees, guests, and even fish so Peevly thinks he sees them everywhere. He consults a doctor, again Hair in disguise, who tells him to take a quick nap and then return to the zoo. While he's asleep, Hair dresses him in a bear costume. Grunch and Botch capture him in a net, so when they all return to the zoo, Peevly puts them on work detail while the bears relax.