SMURPHS

SMURFS
1981-1989 NBC

It started as a series of bandes desinees (Belgian for comics) in the fifties called Les Schtroumpfs, was also a big hit here as a line of toys and merchandising juggernaut, latter a couple movies, but this is just about the Saturday morning cartoon.

HAS AMERICA GONE SNURF CRAZY?
Bananas #68, circa 1983
w: Jovial Bob Stine
a: Sam Viviano

They were all a few inches tall and lived in the forest, Gargamel and his cat Azreal were trying to destroy them. And they would use the word 'Smurf' in place of regular words. Instead of names there was a different type of every Smurf. Papa Smurf was the only adult and Smurfette was the only woman.

SMURPHS
Crazy #94, April 1983
w: Stu Schwartzberg
a: Marie Severin