Rocky & Bullwinkle: Jet Fuel Formula
serialised in The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends, Season 1, Episodes 1-20 (ABC, 1959-1960)
A fast, freewheeling, self-aware cliffhanger serial told across 40 three-minute segments. Bullwinkle the endearingly dim-witted moose and his guileless squirrel pal Rocky battle an equally hapless pair of Cold War spies. Clever allusions and mile-a-minute wordplay underpin the cheap but punchy animation.
Rocky & Bullwinkle: Vacational Therapy
by Jack Mendelsohn, Dave Berg et al; art by Fred Fredericks, Jerry Robinson & Mel Crawford (IDW, 2014) [Collecting Gold Key’s ‘Bullwinkle’ comics, #5-8, September 1972 – July 1973]
Beholden to an older style, this collection of 1970s Rocky and Bullwinkle comic strips seems visually tired, and increasingly loses its way narratively (degenerating into pun-infested nonsense). It also weighs somewhat heavily towards the also-rans (Dudley Do-Right, Fractured Fairy Tales, et cetera).