Four Color, also known as Four Color Comics, was an extremely prolific American comic book anthology series published by Dell Comics between 1939 and 1962. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative ANThology is the first Major label album by Alien Ant Farm released on March 6, 2001 in the USA and March 19 Dell Comics was the Comic book publishing arm of Dell Publishing, which got its start in Pulp magazines. 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. More than 1,000 issues were published, usually with multiple titles released every month. An exact accounting of the actual number of unique issues produced is difficult because occasional issue numbers were skipped and a number of reprint issues were also included, although the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide nonetheless lists well over 1,000 individual issues, ending with #1354, but some numbers were skipped. The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide (or Official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide) is widely considered the primary authority on the subject of American Comic It currently holds the record for most issues produced of an American comic book; its nearest rivals, Action Comics and Detective Comics, both still publishing monthly issues after more than 65 years, only recently passed their 800th issues. Action Comics is an American Comic book series which introduced Superman, the first major Superhero character as the term Detective Comics is an American comic book published monthly by DC Comics since 1937 best-known for introducing the iconic Superhero Batman The first 25 issues are known as "series 1"; after they were published, the numbering began again and "series 2" began. Four Color is notable for having published many of the first comics featuring characters licensed from Walt Disney. Walter Elias Disney (December 5 1901 – December 15 1966 was a multiple Academy Award -winning American Film producer, director, Screenwriter
Unlike most comic book series of the day, which were either devoted to one character, or were anthologies with collections of stories starring the cartoon characters of a particular studio, Four Color instead devoted each individual issue to different characters. One issue might feature a popular cartoon character, while the next might be an adaptation of a popular movie or TV series. Thus the phrase "one shot" which was used in the publisher's code in the first interior page of the first story. For example issue 223 (1949) was denoted DDOS 223 which translates as Donald Duck One-Shot #223. Most Four Color titles featured licensed properties; relatively few original characters were created for the line. The first Four Color comic featured comic strip and movie serial hero Dick Tracy; the last (issue number 1,354, series 2) was based upon the TV series Calvin and the Colonel. A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a Comics artist Serials, more specifically known as Movie serials or Film serials, were Short subjects originally shown in theaters in conjunction with a Feature Dick Tracy is a long-running Comic strip featuring a popular and familiar character in American Pop culture. Calvin and the Colonel was an Animated cartoon Television series in 1961 about Montgomery J
Four Color's primary purpose was as a try-out showcase for potential new Dell Comics series. For example Tarzan and Little Lulu in early 1948 launched their own titles (starting with no. Tarzan is a Fictional character, an archetypal Feral child raised in the African jungle by Apes who later returns to civilization only to Little Lulu is a Comic strip character created by Marjorie Henderson Buell. 1) after proving themselves via a number of Four Color try-out issues. But during the 1940s the transition wasn't always so prompt, as a number of prominent funny animal characters starred in 20-30 issues of Four Color (these include Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Porky Pig). Mickey Mouse is a comic animal Cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company. Donald Duck is a cartoon character from The Walt Disney Company. Porky Pig is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros Comic book historian Michael Barrier notes by the early 1950s Dell seemed to be giving more emphasis to subscription sales (promoted via premium giveaways as part of the Dell Comics Club), which necessitated stable series instead of one-shots. Michael Barrier is an American Animation Historian. Barrier was the editor of Funnyworld, a groundbreaking journal devoted to comics and animation [1] At one point in 1951 some issues of Four Color were double-numbered reflecting the issuances for particular characters; thus issues 318 and 328, featuring Donald Duck, carried the notation "nos. 1-2" on the cover underneath the Four Color series number. This may indicate thought at that point was being given to the eventual transition of these characters from one-shots to their own titles. And indeed beginning in the early 1950s it became more prevelant than previously for Four Color titles, if they proved popular enough, to become ongoing, independent series. In some cases the issue numbering of these spin-offs took into account any previous Four Color issues (albeit sometimes mis-counting the one-shots; Donald Duck started with #26 despite actually twenty-eight Four Color issues with the character preceding it).
Identifying Four Color comics can be a challenge, as only issues published between c. 1940 and 1946 actually carried the title Four Color Comics on the cover. Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
Documenting the extent of the Four Color series was among the bibliographic tasks undertaken in the early 60s by emerging comic book fandom. Uber-fans Donald and Maggie Thompson took the lead in this endeavor and in 1968 finally issued "A Listing of Dell Special Series Comic Books (and a Few Others)" as Bibliographic Supplement no. Maggie Thompson (born November 29, 1942) is the editor of Comics Buyer's Guide, a monthly comic book industry newsmagazine Maggie Thompson (born November 29, 1942) is the editor of Comics Buyer's Guide, a monthly comic book industry newsmagazine 1 to their legendary fanzine Comic Art. In its 35 pages it listed not only individual titles of comic books published in the Color/Four Color series but those in these series: Black and White, Large Feature, United Feature Single Series, Comics on Parade, McKay Feature Books, Stories by Famous Authors Illustrated, and Classics Illustrated (Classic Comics). Classics Illustrated is a comic book series featuring adaptations of literary classics such as Moby Dick, Hamlet, and The
The title is a reference to the four basic colors used when printing early twentieth-century comic books: cyan, magenta, yellow and black. The twentieth century of the Common Era began on Cyan (saɪæn from Greek κυανός / kyanos, meaning "blue" may be used as the name of any of a number of a range of colors in the blue/green part of Magenta is a purplish red Color evoked by lights with less power in yellowish-green Wavelengths than in blue and red wavelengths ( complements of magenta have Yellow is the Color evoked by light that stimulates both the L and M (long and medium wavelength Cone cells of the Retina about equally Black is the Color of objects that do not emit or Reflect Light in any part of the Visible spectrum; they absorb all such frequencies of
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