Non-Four Color Dells

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A Disney but not a duck:

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The book hasn't turned me into a big Tarzan fan but it sure was a lot of fun to read and a reminder that you can't go wrong with a DELL GIANT! Cost - $25 Fun Factor - Priceless!

 

The set of the Tarzan Jungle Annuals is really fun. Packed as you said with Dell goodness and not to be missed. Thanks for posting this good looking copy [and the interiors ]

Thanks for the review and the interior pics.

A lot of fun stories in those Tarzan comics.

Here's a much beloved and all too little seen character:

 

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Another pretty book. I love the grey background on this cover.

A Disney but not a duck:

 

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That's a nice copy. The Mickey books were always such also rans compared to the duck books. I always wondered who bought them as the stories were so tame by comparison. I've got a few in the post four color Dell series I'll have to pull out and reread but they were normally yawners!!

Here's a much beloved and all too little seen character:

 

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Here's another.

The early Andy Panda stories were great. (Maybe Lantz wrote the early ones himself; I'm not sure.)

Oh I love the way Andy Panda was drawn with the hair tufts in the early years!

I just wish I had another 1500+ Dell funny animal comics overall.

Here's a much beloved and all too little seen character:

 

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Here's another.

 

The early Andy Panda stories were great. (Maybe Lantz wrote the early ones himself; I'm not sure.)

 

OK, so now I have to check out some Andy Pandas!

A Disney but not a duck:

 

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...it would still be cool to see a set of covers featuring the icon from around the early Duck book days Hep if you have them.

Sadly I do not.

It's funny; it's probably the first time ever I looked up that series in GCD.

Here's the link to the Cover Gallery -

http://www.comics.org/series/874/covers/

Never realized that it started in 1952 nor have I had any incline to pick them up. I have read several of the Four Color issues here and there and that was enough to kill any interest on my part

It's funny; it's probably the first time ever I looked up that series in GCD.

 

Here's the link to the Cover Gallery -

 

http://www.comics.org/series/874/covers/

 

Never realized that it started in 1952 nor have I had any incline to pick them up. I have read several of the Four Color issues here and there and that was enough to kill any interest on my part

I'll have to double check if I have any from the Dell run. I don't think I do as they would always have been a secondary consideration to anything else available. Nice covers but that's where it ends. Some of the later Gold Key / Western issues had some Paul Murray reprints that were passable.

I'll be diving in the comic closet later this afternoon; let's see what turns up.

I'll be diving in the comic closet later this afternoon; let's see what turns up.

After I wrote that I realized someone should modify this image to show comics!!

Well I do have a couple of Dell Mickey's it turns out. First up is well worn and loved issue #51 from 1956 that I must have owned since at least around 1972 or 1973 as I applied tape to the tears because Overstreet said that was OK!! Pretty mundane fare inside with the majority of the book being created by Tony Strobl. Pau Murray's cover is the highlight here and he performs some OK (but not great) work on the Li'l Bad Wolf too. All is not lost as there is an ad for Gilbert American Flyer trains on the last page of the book! The back cover Schwinn ad rocks it too featuring the Mark II Jaguar bike.

After that I found issue #80 from 1961 which is a little cleaner and also features two longer stories by Paul Murray but the cover by Tony Strobl. Kind of the reverse of issue #51. There's still the Li'l Bad Wolf and Schwinn is still pitching bikes on the back cover although this one is called the American. I note the bike decor has cleaned up reflecting the trends in American auto styling!!

Anyway, not the greatest of the Dell books and the fact that I only have two in my collection from the Dell non-four color run may attest to their relative low popularity. Yet they are still Dell comics and as we know, even a bad Dell comic is a good comic!!

I said I would post these a few days ago, then never got around to it. Still, I figure I'm in time for the holiday:

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It's not like any of the Bugs Bunny Dell Giants are particularly hard to find, but I would say the Halloween issues are a bit scarcer than the others. I wonder if they had a shorter shelf life before being pushed out by the Christmas Giants?

Well I do have a couple of Dell Mickey's it turns out. First up is well worn and loved issue #51 from 1956 that I must have owned since at least around 1972 or 1973 as I applied tape to the tears because Overstreet said that was OK!! Pretty mundane fare inside with the majority of the book being created by Tony Strobl. Pau Murray's cover is the highlight here and he performs some OK (but not great) work on the Li'l Bad Wolf too. All is not lost as there is an ad for Gilbert American Flyer trains on the last page of the book! The back cover Schwinn ad rocks it too featuring the Mark II Jaguar bike.

 

After that I found issue #80 from 1961 which is a little cleaner and also features two longer stories by Paul Murray but the cover by Tony Strobl. Kind of the reverse of issue #51. There's still the Li'l Bad Wolf and Schwinn is still pitching bikes on the back cover although this one is called the American. I note the bike decor has cleaned up reflecting the trends in American auto styling!!

 

Anyway, not the greatest of the Dell books and the fact that I only have two in my collection from the Dell non-four color run may attest to their relative low popularity. Yet they are still Dell comics and as we know, even a bad Dell comic is a good comic!!

I said I would post these a few days ago, then never got around to it. Still, I figure I'm in time for the holiday:

 

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I said I would post these a few days ago, then never got around to it. Still, I figure I'm in time for the holiday:

 

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And there's Daffy (on the back cover!!). He got no love on the group books back then. Nice of you to post the back covers along with the fronts

Daffy was bizarrely underused in the Looney Tunes books other than his own title, for some reason. And happy to post both sides. Now if I can just track down the 3 Bugs giants where I've got the **** ad version instead of the good one...