50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 They are very different… Each one stands on its own merits, IMO. Keep the suggestions coming: more Mickey Mouse, more comic book significant stories in general, not just ducks… Some of the early Dell Four Colors and movie adaptions are fun stories. In no particular order: Snow White Bambi and Bambi's Children Pinocchio Snow White Meets the Seven Dwarfs Three Caballeros Also: Mickey and Beanstalk is good fun and Mickey's Sky Adventure is worth a read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaillant Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 Sure, I have Snow White in the italian edition, and also a few years ago I collected all the Snow White follow-up stories realized here, the earliest ones are great. Out of curiosity, most of these were released as syndicated strips first, right? Aside from the Three Caballeros, I guess. The second Snow White adventure, "Snow White and the Sorcerer Basilisk", originally serialized in color in 1939 and then collected in two-color in this wonderful album (this one is an anastatic reprint, it's very pricey and nice copies go for over $1000): Death of the evil sorcerer and end of the story: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaillant Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 (edited) INDUCKS entry: https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+PG+++72-B and how it originally appeared (in color) in the italian comics journal "Paperino" (which was devoted to Donald Duck): Edited October 27, 2016 by vaillant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 Sure, I have Snow White in the italian edition, and also a few years ago I collected all the Snow White follow-up stories realized here, the earliest ones are great. Out of curiosity, most of these were released as syndicated strips first, right? Aside from the Three Caballeros, I guess. The second Snow White adventure, "Snow White and the Sorcerer Basilisk", originally serialized in color in 1939 and then collected in two-color in this wonderful album (this one is an anastatic reprint, it's very pricey and nice copies go for over $1000): Wow those are beautiful; Italian only I assume. Some of the early four color movie editions were created for the comics only and not the newspapers I believe. Dumbo is another one but I don't have a copy of that in the collection yet. The Snow White books remind me a little of some of the OZ illustration work. That is nice work too. There is an interesting resemblance of that work to the work of H.G. Peter in Wonder Woman. It's the pen and ink work that has an early twentieth century feel to it that gives it some great character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 Excellent posts Vaillant as always. Please never stop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woowoo Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 Sure, I have Snow White in the italian edition, and also a few years ago I collected all the Snow White follow-up stories realized here, the earliest ones are great. Out of curiosity, most of these were released as syndicated strips first, right? Aside from the Three Caballeros, I guess. The second Snow White adventure, "Snow White and the Sorcerer Basilisk", originally serialized in color in 1939 and then collected in two-color in this wonderful album (this one is an anastatic reprint, it's very pricey and nice copies go for over $1000): Death of the evil sorcerer and end of the story: Nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 They are very different… Each one stands on its own merits, IMO. Keep the suggestions coming: more Mickey Mouse, more comic book significant stories in general, not just ducks… Some of the early Dell Four Colors and movie adaptions are fun stories. In no particular order: Snow White Bambi and Bambi's Children Pinocchio Snow White Meets the Seven Dwarfs Three Caballeros Also: Mickey and Beanstalk is good fun and Mickey's Sky Adventure is worth a read. I enjoyed the MIckey and the Beanstalk cartoon and the Three Caballeros got a lot of play on TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 (edited) INDUCKS entry: https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+PG+++72-B and how it originally appeared (in color) in the italian comics journal "Paperino" (which was devoted to Donald Duck): That looks great. Does anyone have the Snow White issue of Mickey Mouse Magazine. How much of the story did they reprint in there? Edited October 28, 2016 by BB-Gun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 The Dell Snow White book is probably the most reprinted of the classic Dell Four Color series. From it's intial print in four color 49 it was reprinted once in the four color series, then again in the Gold Key line and then as a TOPS comic reprint. That was all before 1970. After that it would likely have appeared in WD Comics Digest (not sure) and then other reprint editions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 (edited) I'm not sure if the Gladstone Snow White book is the same one. I'll pull mine out and have a look later. My memory is that it has some lovely artwork in it. Edit: it reprints Four Color #49 Edited October 28, 2016 by AJD 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 INDUCKS entry: https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+PG+++72-B and how it originally appeared (in color) in the italian comics journal "Paperino" (which was devoted to Donald Duck): That looks great. Does anyone have the Snow White issue of Mickey Mouse Magazine. How much of the story did they reprint in there? I'll answer my own question. Snow White was primarily a text story with some illustrations apparently. I found this scan on ebay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 Wow, that Italian Snow White story is amazing. I thought she was confronting Satan until I read he was a sorcerer! Thanks for posting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaillant Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 Wow, that Italian Snow White story is amazing. I thought she was confronting Satan until I read he was a sorcerer! Thanks for posting! Thanks everyone… In fact the Sorcerer Basilisk is a quite disturbing character: one of the big Disney italian villains… used only once as (like the Witch) he dies in this story. Basically, at the beginning he kidnaps Snow White and the Prince's son (we are briefed at the beginning of the story that they have had a baby after their marriage) to make the child "his heir" by transfering to him his "powers to curse". See this panel: @BB-Gun: No reprint, as I explained. "Snow White and the sorcerer Basilisk" and "The Good Seven Dwarves against the Evil Seven Dwarves" are the two very first original stories created in Italy after the publication of the original story, adapted from the movie. Links to both stories from INDUCKS: https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+PG+++72-B https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+PG++101-B The original story from the movie, after its first edition on comics journals, in Italy was collected in this album, which is issue 66: The follow-up, "Snow White and the sorcerer Basilisk" first appered on the journal Paperino, and then was collected in the same title ("Nel Regno di Topolino") as issue 92: These pictures are anastatic reprints, as found pictures on the web for the originals are tiny or ugly, but they look the same (like your Alan Light reprints for GA material). These two Snow White new stories are also among the very first italian production: his creator and writer, Federico Pedrocchi, which died young because of an allied bombing during the war, was quite a genius and laid the basis for our own school of Disney authors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaillant Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 (edited) So basically the original story, the movie adaptation was in newspapers first: https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=ZS+3701 and then reprinted in Four Color #49, right? https://coa.inducks.org/issue.php?c=us/OS+++49#02 Here’s how it was adapted in two-colors when reprinted in "Nel Regno di Topolino" #66 in Italy (first italian edition was in journals, and in color like the USA one). Edited October 28, 2016 by vaillant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaillant Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 Wow those are beautiful; Italian only I assume. Some of the early four color movie editions were created for the comics only and not the newspapers I believe. Dumbo is another one but I don't have a copy of that in the collection yet. Yes, unfortunately all of the italian Snow White stories (and they are a lot!) as far as I know are still unpublished in USA. But IDW is doing an awesome job in publishing several italian classics (recently "Mickey Mouse and the Chirikawa necklace") right now: support them and who knows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Very cool, Valliant! I really appreciate you posting these as I would never have heard of them otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaillant Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Let's hope the most important stories will be published in english at some point… This is the original I should get in December. I wasn’t willing to spend $1000 or more to have a nice copy, so very excited to purchase this from a friend ("Nel Regno di Topolino" #92 is from 1939, and one of the most sought after issues): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaillant Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 P.S. I have a spare copy of the anastatic reprint which I might offer in my "World War 2 Time Machine" sale I hope to do soon… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 I would buy an English translation if anyone from Disney happens to be reading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted November 25, 2016 Share Posted November 25, 2016 A return to Ducks shortly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
