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Sunday, 1 December 2024

Four Color v1 002-025 (1939-1942, Dell Comics). Missing #001, Dick Tracy [Courtesy of Jens Terje]

Four Color, also known as Four Color Comics and Dell Four Color, is an American comic book anthology series published by Dell Comics between 1939 and 1962. The title is a reference to the four basic colors used when printing comic books (cyan, magenta, yellow and black at the time). The first 25 issues (1939–1942) are known as "series 1". In mid-1942, the numbering started over again, and "series 2" began. After the first hundred issues of the second series, Dell stopped putting the "Four Color Comics" designation on the books, but they continued the numbering system for twenty years.

Publication Dates:

[September 1939] - 1942

Number of Issues Published:

25 (#1 - Dick Tracy - #25 - Popeye)

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.

Paper Stock:: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding:: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

Publication Type: magazine

Tracking:

Numbering continues in Four Color (Dell, 1942 series)

Notes:

- Dell usually published multiple issues of this series per month, with different features in each issue.

- As a series, it was held together mostly by its numbering--only the issues #19-25 carried the continuing title "Four Color"; preceding and successive issues changed titles every issue to match their contents. By convention, the entire series is referred to as "Four Color".

- For unknown reasons Dell restarted the numbering on the series in 1942, leading fans to refer to the "first series" and "second series" or "Series I" (this series) and "Series II" (see Four Color (Dell, 1942 series)).

https://www.comics.org/series/120/

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

https://old-fashionedcomics.blogspot.com/p/four-color-dell-1942-series-published.html

Index

1 - Dick Tracy

2 - Don Winslow of the Navy

3 - Myra North Special Nurse

4 - Walt Disney's Donald Duck

5 - Smilin' Jack

6 - Dick Tracy

7 - Gang Busters

8 - Dick Tracy

9 - Terry and the Pirates

10 - Smilin' Jack

11 - Smitty

12 - Little Orphan Annie

13 - Walt Disney's Reluctant Dragon

14 - Moon Mullins

15 - Tillie the Toiler

16 - Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Outwits the Phantom Blot

17 - Walt Disney's Dumbo the Flying Elephant

18 - Jiggs and Maggie "Bringing Up Father"

19 - Barney Google and Snuffy Smith

20 - Tiny Tim

21 - Dick Tracy

22 - Don Winslow of the Navy

23 - Gang Busters

24 - Captain Easy

25 - Popeye

Missing #001, Dick Tracy

Four Color Dell 1942 -1962 [#1301-#1354] [Final Issues)

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 ?

More information HERE

Notes :

- One of the earlier issues of Four Color (#9 from October 1942), featuring Walt Disney's Donald Duck in Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold. Note Four Color title below the price.

- Series II. Early issues have "Four Color Comic" on the cover. Last with this notation is #101. The following issues were apparently never published: 1217, 1228, 1277, 1292, 1314-1327, 1329 (believed to have instead been published as Gyro Gearloose (1962 series) #01329-207), 1331, 1334, 1338-1340, 1342-1347, 1351-1353. There are ad and non-ad versions for many issues from #693 to the end.

Four Color Dell [#1301-#1354] 1962

TITLES:

Four color 1301 Adventures In Paradis

Four color 1302 Johnny Jason Teen Reporter

Four color 1303 Lad A Dog

Four color 1304 Nellie the Nurse

Four color 1305 Mister Magoo

Four color 1306 Target The Corruptors

Four color 1307 Margie

Four color 1308 Tales Of The Wizard Of Oz

Four color 1309 87th Precinct.cbr

Four color 1310 Huck And Yogi Winter Sports