Four Color Dell 1942 -1962 [#1101-#1125]

  Four Color

Dell, 1942 Series

Published in English (United States) United States

Publication Dates:

    1942 - April-June 1962 

Number of Issues Published:

    1331 (#1 - Little Joe - #1354 - Calvin and the Colonel) 

Color:  Color 

Dimensions:

    Standard Golden Age U.S.; Standard Silver Age U.S. 

Paper Stock:    Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior 

Binding:    Saddle-stitched 

Publishing Format:   Was Ongoing Series 

Publication Type:   magazine 

Pages  68     Indicia frequency  ?

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Four Color  Dell   [#1101-#1125] 1960

TITLES:

Four color 1101    Kidnapped

Four color 1102    Wanted Dead Or Alive

Four color 1103    Leave itto Beaver

Four color 1104    Yogi Bear Goes to College

Four color 1105    Gale Strom

Four color 1106   77 Sunset Strip 

Four color 1107    Buckskin

Four color 1108   The Troubleshooters

Four color 1109   This is Your life Donald Duck

Four color 1110    Bonanza

Four color 1111     Shotgun Slade

Four color 1112    Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks

Four color 1113    Tales of Wells Fargo

Four color 1114    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Four color 1115    Ricky Nelson

Four color 1116    Boots and Saddles

Four color 1117    The Boy and the Pirates

Four color 1118    The Sword and the Dragon

Four color 1119    Smokey the Bear - Nature Stories

Four color 1108   The Troubleshooters

Four color 1109   This is Your life Donald Duck

Four color 1110    Bonanza

Four color 1111     Shotgun Slade

Four color 1112    Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks

Four color 1113    Tales of Wells Fargo

Four color 1114   Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Four color 1115   Ricky Nelson

Four color 1116   Boots and Saddles

Four color 1117   The Boy and the Pirates

Four color 1118   The Sword and the Dragon

Four color 1119   Smokey the Bear - Nature Stories

Four color 1120  Dinosaurus

Four color 1121   Hercules Unchained

Four color 1122   Chilly Willy

Four color 1123   Tombstone Territory

Four color 1124   Whirlybirds

Four color 1125   Laramie

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Li’l Abner (1934 - 1977) - Al Capp [Daily Comic Strip]

 

Li’l Abner is a satirical American comic strip that appeared in many newspapers in the United States, Canada and Europe, featuring a fictional clan of hillbillies in the impoverished mountain village of Dogpatch, USA. Written and drawn by Al Capp (1909–1979), the strip ran for 43 years, from August 13, 1934 through November 13, 1977. It was distributed by United Feature Syndicate. 

Comic strips typically dealt with northern urban experiences before Capp introduced the first strip based in the South. Although Capp was from Connecticut, he spent 43 years writing about a fictional southern town. The comic strip had 60 million readers in over 900 American newspapers and 100 foreign papers in 28 countries. Author M. Thomas Inge says Capp “had a profound influence on 

the way the world viewed the American South.” 

Li’l Abner also featured a comic strip-within-the-strip: Fearless Fosdick was a parody of Chester Gould’s plainclothes detective, Dick Tracy. It first appeared in 1942, and proved so popular that it ran intermittently in Li’l Abner over the next 35 years. Gould was also personally parodied in the series as cartoonist Lester Gooch— the diminutive, much-harassed and occasionally deranged “creator” of Fearless Fosdick. 

The style of the Fosdick sequences closely mimicked Tracy, including the urban setting, the outrageous villains, the galloping mortality rate, the crosshatched shadows, the lettering style— even Gould’s familiar signature was parodied in Fearless Fosdick. Fosdick battled a succession of archenemies with absurdly unlikely names like Rattop, Anyface, Bombface, Boldfinger, the Atom Bum, the Chippendale Chair, and Sidney the Crooked Parrot, as well as his own criminal mastermind father, 

“Fearful” Fosdick (aka “The Original”).

 The razor-jawed title character (Li’l Abner’s “ideel”) was perpetually ventilated by flying bullets until he resembled a slice of Swiss cheese.[24] The impervious Fosdick considered the gaping, smoking holes “mere scratches,” however, and always reported back in one piece to his corrupt superior

 The Chief for duty the next day.

Besides being fearless, Fosdick was “pure, underpaid and purposeful,” according to his creator.

He also had notoriously bad aim— often leaving a trail of collateral damage (in the form of bullet-riddled pedestrians) in his wake. “When Fosdick is after a lawbreaker, there is no escape for the miscreant,” Capp wrote in 1956. “There is, however, a fighting chance to escape for hundreds of innocent bystanders who happen to be in the neighborhood— but only a fighting chance.

 Fosdick’s duty, as he sees it, is not so much to maintain safety as to destroy crime, and it’s too much to ask any law-enforcement officer to do both, I suppose.” Fosdick lived in squalor at the dilapidated boarding house run by his mercenary landlady, Mrs. Flintnose. He never married his own long-suffering fiancée Prudence (ugh!) Pimpleton (they’ve been engaged for 17 years), but Fosdick was directly responsible for the unwitting marriage of his biggest fan, Li’l Abner to Daisy Mae in 1952. The bumbling detective became the star of his own NBC-TV puppet show that same year. Fosdick also achieved considerable exposure as the long-running advertising spokesman for Wildroot Cream-Oil, a popular men’s hair product of the postwar period.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%27l_Abner

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2018/10/28/first-and-last-lil-abner/

https://newspapercomicstripsblog.wordpress.com

https://peanuts.fandom.com/wiki/Li%27l_Abner

Li’l Abner 

Years 1934 - 1977  

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Brick Bradford [D001-D027] - Daily strips by Clarence Gray and William Ritt

 

Authors: William Ritt (1933–1948)

Clarence Gray (1948–1956)

Paul Norris (1956–1987)

Illustrator: Clarence Gray (1933–1956)

Paul Norris (1952–1987)

Current status/schedule Concluded daily & Sunday strip

Launch date August 21, 1933

End date April 25, 1987

Syndicates: Central Press Association / King Features Syndicate

Publisher: David McKay Publications

Genres: science fiction, adventure

Brick Bradford was a science fiction comic strip created by writer William Ritt, a journalist based in Cleveland, and artist Clarence Gray. It was first distributed on August 21, 1933 by Central Press Association, a subsidiary of King Features Syndicate which specialized in producing material for small-town newspapers.

Brick Bradford achieved its greatest popularity outside the United States. The series was carried by both newspapers and comic books in Australia and New Zealand. In France the strip was known as Luc Bradefer ("Luke Ironarm") and was published in many newspapers. The strip was also widely published in Italy where it was known variously as Giorgio Ventura and Marco Spada and in Greece in the newspaper Έθνος during the 1960s.

Publication history

Ritt grew tired of Brick Bradford in the mid-1940s, and by 1948 he had turned over first the daily and then the Sunday to Gray, who did the strip by himself until his health problems increased. In 1952, Paul Norris (who had been working on King's Jungle Jim) took over the daily. When Gray died in 1956, Norris took over the Sunday strip. Norris retired in 1987, and the strip was retired as well with the daily ending April 25, 1987, and the Sundays two weeks later.

Characters and story

Brick Bradford was an athletic and adventurous redheaded (later blond) aviator from Kentucky who continually encountered fantastic situations. Initially, the strip was focused on Earth-bound, aviation-focused adventures, in a similar manner to Lester J. Maitland and Dick Calkins' Skyroads. However, as the strip developed, Brick Bradford increasingly featured fantastic elements in the manner of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. Ritt was an admirer of science fiction writers H. G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs and Abraham Merritt, and drew on some of their ideas when writing Brick Bradford. Brick Bradford now became more of a space opera/adventure story, with its tales of dinosaurs, lost civilizations, intergalactic villains, robots and subatomic worlds.

By 1935, Brick Bradford's popularity had greatly increased, and it arrived in the Sunday comics sections of major newspapers in 1933, followed by a weekend edition that began November 24, 1934. In the daily strips Brick kept company with his friend Sandy Sanderson, balding and bearded scientist Kalla Kopak, and June Salisbury, Brick's girlfriend and daughter of his ally Professor Van Atta Salisbury. The Sunday strips featured completely different characters and plots. Here Brick was often accompanied on his adventures by Professor Horatio Southern and his daughter April, who was Brick's love interest. Later characters included Brick's pugnacious sidekick Bucko O'Brien and the beautiful, black-haired bad girl Saturn Sadie who reformed and in the end married the stalwart hero.

Brick's enemies included Dr. Franz Ego, a spy; Avil Blue, inventor of a giant robot; and the "Assassins", descendants of the Middle Eastern sect of the same name.

On April 20, 1935, the strip added a large top-shaped time machine invented by Professor Southern called, fittingly, the Time Top which could travel to both past and future and off into the depths of space, presaging Doc Wonmug's device in Alley Oop four years later and the TARDIS on Doctor Who by almost three decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_Bradford

Daily strips by Clarence Gray and William Ritt

• D001 In the City Beneath the Sea (08/21/1933 – 06/30/1934) 270 strips
• D002 With Brocco the Buccaneer (07/02/1934 – 05/18/1935) 276 strips
• D003 On the Isles Beyond the Ice (05/20/1935 – 04/11/1936) 282 strips
• D004 Brick Bradford and the Lord of Doom (04/13/1936 – 02/06/1937) 258 strips
• D005 Adrift in an Atom [aka Voyage in a Coin] (02/08/1937 – 01/08/1938) 288 strips
• D006 In the Fortress of Fear (01/10/1938 – 02/11/1939) 342 strips
• D007 Brick Bradford and the Metal Monster (02/13/1939 – 03/16/1940) 342 strips
• D008 Brick Bradford Seeks the Diamond Doll (03/18/1940 – 12/28/1940) 246 strips
• D009 On the Throne of Titania (12/30/1940 – 06/12/1943) 768 strips
• D010 Beyond the Crystal Door (06/14/1943 – 10/21/1944) 462 strips
• D011 The Queen of the Night (10/28/1944 – 06/01/1946) 468 strips
• D012 The Witch Doctor of Wanchi (06/03/1946 – 12/07/1946) 162 strips
• D013 The Strange Case of Captain Boldd (12/09/1946 – 07/19/1947) 192 strips
• D014 Lost Train In Tunnel #10 (07/21/1947 – 05/01/1948) 246 strips
• D015 The Prophet of Thorn (05/03/1948 – 03/19/1949) 276 strips
• D016 The Colossal Fossil (03/21/1949 – 07/02/1949) 90 strips
• D017 The Island of the Eye (07/04/1949 – 12/24/1949) 150 strips
• D018 Smokeballs (12/26/1949 – 03/25/1950) 60 strips
• D019 The Howling Face (03/27/1950 – 06/17/1950) 90 strips
• D020 The Legacy of Low Lake (06/19/1950 – 10/07/1950) 96 strips
• D021 Detour of Doubt (10/09/1950 – 12/30/1950) 60 strips
• D022 Frame-Up (01/01/1951 – 03/31/1951) 90 strips
• D023 Mesa Macabre (04/02/1951 – 08/11/1951) 114 strips
• D024 Moon Maiden (08/13/1951 – 10/06/1951) 48 strips
• D025 Shadow in the Sky (10/08/1951 – 02/16/1952) 102 strips
• D026 The Six Seeds of Sibed (02/18/1952 – 05/10/1952) 96 strips
• D027 Mr. Distance (05/12/1952 – 10/18/1952) 138 strips

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