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Dell Comics was the comic book publishing arm of Dell Publishing, which got its start in pulp magazines. A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative Dell Publishing was an American publisher of Books, Magazines, and Comic books. Pulp magazines (or pulp fiction; often referred to as "the pulps" were inexpensive Fiction magazines It published comics from 1929 to 1973. Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. At its peak, it was the most prominent and successful American company in the medium.

Its first title was The Funnies which was the first comic book to feature original material, but since it was published in the tabloid format as opposed to the standard one, it is normally not recognized as such. A tabloid is a Newspaper industry term which refers to a smaller newspaper format per spread to a weekly or semi-weekly alternative newspaper that focuses on local-interest

The company formed a partnership in 1938 with Western Publishing, in which Dell would finance and distribute publications that Western would produce. Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Western Publishing, also known as "Western Printing and Lithographing Co While this diverged from the regular practice in the medium of one company handling finance and production and outsourcing distribution, it was a highly successful enterprise with titles selling in the millions.

Dell Comics was best known for its licensed material, most notably the animated characters from Walt Disney Productions, Warner Bros., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Walter Lantz Studio along with many movie and television properties such as Tarzan and the Lone Ranger. The bouncing ball animation (below consists of these 6 frames Warner Bros Entertainment Inc (or Warner Bros, Warner Bros Pictures) is one of the world's largest producers of Film and Walter Lantz Productions was an American Animation studio It was in operation from 1929 to 1972 and was the principal supplier of animation for Universal Studios Tarzan is a Fictional character, an archetypal Feral child raised in the African jungle by Apes who later returns to civilization only to The Lone Ranger is an American, long-running Old-time radio and early Television show created by George W Writer/artists Walt Kelly and Carl Barks are the most noted talents associated with the company. Walter Crawford Kelly Jr ( August 25, 1913 – October 18, 1973) known as Walt Kelly, was a Cartoonist notable for his Carl Barks ( March 27, 1901 &ndash August 25, 2000) was a famous Disney Studio illustrator and Comic book creator who Other prolific scripters were Gaylord DuBois, Paul S. Newman, Don "Arr" Christensen, John Stanley, Bob Gregory, Robert Schaefer and Eric Freiwald, Lloyd Turner and Carl Fallberg. Gaylord McIlvaine Du Bois (as it appears on his baptism certificate or DuBois (He signed it both ways as two words both capitalized and as one word with a capital "B" Paul S Newman ( April 29, 1924 &ndash May 30, 1999) was an American writer of Comic books, Comic strips, and Donald Ragnvald Christensen ( July 6 1916 - October 18 2006) was an American Animator, Cartoonist, Illustrator John Stanley ( March 22, 1914 &ndash November 11, 1993) was a comic book creator best known for his scripting of Little Lulu Robert P Gregory (1921 Los Angeles California - 2003 was an American Comics artist and writer best known for various writing/drawing hundreds of Eric Freiwald (born 1927) is an American TV writer currently scripting the Daytime television serial The Young and the Restless. Carl Robert Fallberg ( September 11, 1915 &ndash May 9, 1996) was a Disney Comics Artist who wrote and drew many Disney Artists who worked on comics published by Dell included Fred Harman, Alex Toth, Russ Manning, Jesse Marsh, Paul Murry, Tony Strobl, Harvey Eisenberg, Ken Hultgren, Dick Moores, Jack Bradbury, Fred Fredericks, Roger Armstrong, Jack Manning, Bill Wright, Pete Alvarado, Dan Spiegle, Paul Norris, Frank Bolle, Artie Saaf, Dan Noonan and John Buscema. Fred Harman ( February 9, 1902 - January 2, 1982) is best known as the artist of Red Ryder, "America's famous fighting Alex Toth ( June 25, 1928 &ndash May 27, 2006) pronounced with a long "o" was an acclaimed professional Cartoonist Russell Manning (born 1929 California, United States; died 1981 was an American Comic book Artist who created the series Magnus Jesse Marsh (July 27 1907 - April 28 1966 was a Comic book and Animation artist Paul Murry ( November 25, 1911, Saint Joseph, Missouri — August 4, 1989, Palmdale, California) was Anthony Joseph (Tony Strobl ( May 12 1915 &ndash December 29 1991) was an American Dick Moores is a comic strip creator whose best known work was for the comic strip Gasoline Alley. Jack Bradbury ( December 27, 1914 - May 15, 2004) was an American animator and comic book artist Fred Fredericks is an American cartoonist born in 1929 who has drawn the Mandrake the Magician cartoon for over 40 years taking over for the late Phil Davis Peter J Alvarado Jr ( February 22, 1920 -- December 27, 2003) was an American Animation and Comic book Dan Spiegle (born October 12, 1920) is a Comic book and Cartoon artist and illustrator (penciller and inker Paul Leroy Norris ( April 26, 1914 &ndash November 5, 2007) was an American Comic book Artist best known Frank Bolle (born June 7, 1924 in New York City) is a comic strip artist comic book artist and illustrator John Buscema, born Giovanni Natale Buscema (December 11 1927&ndashJanuary 10 2002 was an American Comic-book Artist and one of the mainstays Famed fantasy writer Charles Beaumont contributed a handful of stories for Dell's funny animal comics early in his career, all done in collaboration with William F. Nolan. Charles Beaumont ( January 2, 1929 – February 21, 1967) was a prolific U William Francis Nolan (born March 6, 1928) is an American Author, who writes mostly in the Science fiction, Fantasy and

From 1939 to 1962, Dell's most notable and prolific title was the anthology Four Color. Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Four Color, also known as Four Color Comics and One Shots, was an extremely prolific American Comic book Published several times a month, the title (which primarily consisted of standalone issues featuring various licensed properties) saw more than 1,300 issues published in its 23-year history. It often served as a try-out title (much like DC's Showcase) and thus the launching pad for many long-running series. Showcase has been the title of several Anthology series published by DC Comics.

In 1948, Dell refused an invitation of membership in the nascent Association of Comics Magazine Publishers. Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Association of Comics Magazine Publishers (ACMP was an American Industry trade group formed July 1, 1948 to regulate the content of The association had been formed to pre-empt government intervention in the face of mounting public criticism of comic books. Dell vice-president Helen Meyer told Congress that Dell had opted out of the association because they didn't want their less controversial offerings to serve as "an umbrella for the crime comic publishers". The United States Congress is the bicameral Legislature of the federal government of the United States of America, consisting of two houses [1] When the Comics Code was formed in 1954 in reaction to Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent, Dell again refused to join and instead began publishing in its comics a Pledge to Parents that promised their editorial process "eliminates, rather than regulates, objectional material" and concluded with the now classic credo Dell Comics Are Good Comics. The Comics Code Authority ( CCA) is part of the Comics Magazine Association of America (CMAA and was created to regulate the content of comic books in the United Fredric Wertham ( March 20, 1895 November 18, 1981) was a German-American Psychiatrist and crusading author who protested Seduction of the Innocent is a book by Dr Frederic Wertham, published in 1954, that warned that Comic books were a bad form of popular Literature [2]

Bart Beaty in his book Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture describes a concerted campaign by Dell against publication of Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent to the extent of recruiting several of the companies that it licensed characters from (including Warner Brother Cartoons, the Lone Ranger Inc. and Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc. ) to send letters of protest to publisher Stanley Rinehart. ^[1]

Dell in this period even burnished its image by taking out full-page ads in the Saturday Evening Post in late 1952 and early 1953 that emphasized the wholesomeness of its comics. The Saturday Evening Post was a weekly Magazine published in the United States from August 4, 1821 to February 8, [3]

From mid-1950 to Spring 1959 Dell promoted subscriptions to its non-Disney titles with what it called the Dell Comics Club. Membership was automatic with any one year subscription to such titles and came with a certificate of membership plus a group portait of the most prominent non-Disney characters published by Dell. Dell also offered various subscription premiums during the 1940s and 1950s (in some cases these were prints of covers or other character artwork and in one instance a cel from a Warner Brothers cartoon) and offered the option of an illustrated note or card be sent to the recipients of a gift subscription for birthdays or Christmas. A cel, short for Celluloid, is a transparent sheet on which objects are drawn or painted for traditional hand-drawn animation. [4] Multi-year subscriptions were also available (in the case of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, at one point in the 1940's subscriptions for up to 5 years were offered). Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (WDC or WDC&S for short is an Anthology Comic book that has an assortment of Disney characters including [5] [6]

The end of Four Color in 1962 coincided with the end of the partnership with Western, which took most of its licensed properties and its original material and created its own imprint, Gold Key Comics. Gold Key Comics was an Imprint of Western Publishing created for Comic books distributed to Newsstands History Gold Key

Dell Comics continued for another 11 years with licensed television and motion picture adaptations (including Mission: Impossible, Ben Casey, Burke's Law, Doctor Kildare, Beach Blanket Bingo) and a few generally poorly received original titles. Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic Mission Impossible (often referred to as Mission Impossible The Original Series) is an American Television series that chronicles Ben Casey is a Medical Drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. Burke's Law is a detective series which ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s Dr James Kildare is a Fictional character, the primary character in a series of American theatrical Films in the late 1930s and early 1940s an early 1950s Beach Blanket Bingo is an American International Pictures Beach Party film, released in 1965 and was directed by William Asher. Among the few long lasting series from this time include the teen-comic Thirteen Going on Eighteen (29 issues, written by John Stanley), Ghost Stories (37 issues, #1 only written by John Stanley), Combat (40 issues), Ponytail (20 issues), Kona Monarch of Monster Isle (20 issues), Toka the Jungle King (10 issues), and Naza Stone Age Warrior (9 issues). Kona Monarch of Monster Isle is a fictional American comic book character who was featured in his own self titled series published by Dell Comics in the Dell additionally attempted to do superhero titles, including Nukla, Fab 4, Brain Boy, and a critically-ridiculed trio of titles based on the Universal Pictures monsters Frankenstein, Dracula and Werewolf that recast the characters as superheroes. Nukla is a fictional Superhero published by Dell Comics in the mid 1960s Brain Boy was a short-lived Superhero comic published by Dell Comics in the early 1960s A character based on the literary and movie monster Frankenstein was the star of a short-lived attempt by Dell Comics to publish Superhero Comic books Dracula is a Superhero Comic book series published by Dell Comics, based on the three classic Universal Pictures monsters (The other two titles Werewolf is a fictional superhero that appeared in comics published by Dell Comics.

Dell Comics finally ceased publication in 1973, with a few of its former titles moving to Gold Key. Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar.

References

^ Beaty, Bart. Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture. Jackson, MS : University Press of Mississippi, 2005. pp. 147-148

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