Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) comic books 1942

Indicia title is "LITTLE JOE, No. 1." Don Jose; Don Jose builds a hacienda on a mesa and tries to use his band of bandits to force Little Joe and his family off their ranch. Black Jack Smith; An "outlaw with a heart of gold" escapes from a posse by hiding at the Oaks' ranch. The Sheep Herders; Utah and Little Joe run off ornery sheep herders who have brought their sheep to the valley. Farmers, Eutopia, and Dust Storms; Conman Blurb sells claims on free range land in the valley to farmers who establish the village of Eutopia. The New Ranch House. Utah Runs for Sheriff. The Power Plant. Scripts by Harold Gray, art by Harold Gray and Robert Leffingwell. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "HAROLD TEEN, No. 2." Untitled stories starring Harold Teen. Harold is busy composing love poetry; Lillums' Aunt Pruny comes to visit and offers to send Lillums off to college. Lillums' parents argue over which college Lillums should attend; Realizing that Lillums will be leaving soon, all the boys fight to spend time with her. Lillums' parents go away on a trip, leaving Aunt Pruny to manage Lillums and a house-full of would-be Romeos. Tired of having Lillums' many boyfriends calling for her at the same time, Aunt Pruny sets up a schedule where each is to call at a specific time. The boys are still on the date schedule; Aunt Pruny meets Pop Jenks. Lillums is preparing to go away to college; Shadow is promoting a romance between Pop Jenks and Aunt Pruny. Lillums makes final arrangements before leaving for college. Everyone is depressed because Lillums has gone off to college. Harold is depressed by Lillums' absence; Shadow keeps an eye on him to make sure he doesn't do anything rash. Scripts and art by Carl Ed. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "ALLEY OOP, No. 3." Untitled stories starring Alley Oop. The women are running Moo; A stranger, Eeny from Jerooly, ingratiates herself with Queen Umpa; She plots to depose Umpa and declares herself dictator of Moo; She enlists Oop as an assistant. Evil dictator Eeny tries to trap Oop in his cave with a landslide. Foozy and Oop frighten dictator Eeny and her followers out of Moo, but three of Oop's old enemies show up. After a flood forces all the inhabitants of Moo to higher ground, Oola leads the refugees back to Moo and Guz is crowned King again. With Moo destroyed by the flood, King Guz decides to take the population to visit Sawalla for a while. Ex-dictator Eeny stumbles across "MooToo" and is chased away. The truce between Oop and his former enemies breaks and the latter three are banished from MooToo, leaving just Oop and Foozy. Scripts and art by V. T. Hamlin. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "SMILIN' JACK, No. 4." Untitled stories starring Smilin' Jack. Cotton Lee wrecks Jack's plane and Jack gets his pilot's license revoked. Jack refuses to smuggle munitions for Baron Bloodsoe; The Baron decides to have Jack pushed out of a plane without a parachute; The Baron and Teekeela use a deadly gas to kill everyone on a stratosphere airliner--except for Dixie, who he is smitten with. Jack searches for the Baron's hideout with the border patrol. Dixie comes home to find that Cotton, who had eloped with Jack's sister Jill, has left her. Cotton is deserted by the smugglers, but he manages to ride the plane down and survive. Jack returns with the smugglers, but is spurned by Dixie and Jill when they learn he was the one who killed Cotton. While recuperating from the surgery, Jack finds out that Dr. Medic is madly in love with Dixie. Jack takes a job as a test pilot to forget women, but is instantly the target of two women's affection. Scripts and art by Zack Mosley. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "RAGGEDY ANN AND ANDY, No. 5." Stories based on the popular childrens dolls. Raggedy Ann's Adventures; Introduction to the feature and preview of the stories. A Very Mysterious Mystery; When items begin disappearing from the toy room, Raggedy Andy stays awake and finds that a Loonie is taking them. The Lost Loonies; Realizing that the Old Horse did not come back with them from Loonie Land, Raggedy Ann and Andy return to Loonie Land the next night. The Jumping Sailboat; Raggedy Ann and Andy become entangled in Marcella's balloons and are carried into the sky. Article on how Johnny Gruelle created the Raggedy Ann books. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories, Art and Cover by Walter Berndt. Starring Smitty in reprints from Smitty dailies (Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate), circa 1936-1937. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "SMOKEY STOVER, No. 7." Cover art by Bill Holman. Untitled stories starring Smokey Stover. Smokey sees a man to whom he owes $50; To escape, he hides in a box full of dynamite. Smokey gets to be chief for one day. Smokey is supposed to be raking leaves, but decides to take a nap in the pile of leaves. Smokey gives an exploding cigar to a friend and it makes the round until it comes back to him. Fiddling Finnegan practices his awful fiddling at Smokey's firehouse. Smokey's son is supposed to practice the violin, but rigs it up with a clock's pendulum. Smokey decides to go to Texas for a vacation because it's all downhill on the map. Cookie bakes the Chief a birthday cake, but the only "candle" Smokey can find turns out to be a firecracker. Smokey and the Chief hide their clothes in a pile of sand while they go swimming, but the sand turns out to be cement. Scripts and art by Bill Holman. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and Art by Russ Westover. Featuring Tillie the Toiler (King Features Syndicate, Inc.) Sunday newspaper strips from 1937-1939. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "DONALD DUCK FINDS PIRATE GOLD, No. 9." Cover art by Hank Porter. Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold, script by Bob Karp (adaptation) and Homer Brightman (original storyboards), pencils by Carl Barks (story pages 1, 2, 5, 12-40) and Jack Hannah (story pages 3, 4, 6-11, 41-64), inks by Carl Barks (story pages 1, 2, 5, 12-40) and Jack Hannah (story pages 3, 4, 6-11, 41-64); Bearing a map found in Donald's seafood restaurant, the ducks and a parrot named Old Yellow Beak set sail for an island where the pirate Henry Morgan's treasure is buried; Unknown to them, the crew of the ship is made up of Black Pete, disguised as an old woman, and two of his rat-faced henchmen; Peter takes over the ship, but the ducks and the parrot reach the treasure island on a raft; They dig up the treasure while Pete lies in wait. Back cover treasure map. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "FLASH GORDON, No. 10." Cover pencils by Alex Raymond. A brief profile of Alex Raymond with photographs of him working with 17-year-old model Patricia Quinn; with his children, Alex and Lynne; with his wife; and with his fan mail. Untitled Flash Gordon story, script by Don Moore, pencils by Alex Raymond (signed) and Austin Briggs (p. 2), inks by Alex Raymond (signed) and Austin Briggs (p. 2); Adventures in the forest kingdom of King Barin and the ice kingdom of Queen Fria, starring Dale Arden, Dr. Zarkov, Ming the Merciless, Prince Ronal, Korro, Lupi, Queen Fria, and King Barin. Back cover art by Raymond. Reprinted from "The Ice Kingdom." 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "WASH TUBBS, No. 11."U ntitled stories starring Wash Tubbs. Easy gets in the middle of a love triangle with Helga Zmith and Beverly Hill; Zmith turns out to be the mastermind of a mid-ocean robbery that nets her gang $3,000,000. With Easy gone, Wash decides to go back to his home town; He connects with an old pal, Gozy Gallup, but Gozy's wife tosses both of them out of the house. Wash gets a check for $3,000 for helping recover the S.S. Platonic's gold. Wash opens the Topsy-Turvey Club and is an immediate success. The law is helpless when Slaughter repeatedly vandalizes Wash's night club. Easy sets a trap for Slaughter, but Slaughter is warned and instead goes to the club where he roughs up Wash and demands the lease for the night club. Slaughter machine-guns Wash's limousine and one of his men threatens to disfigure Carol with acid. Scripts and art by Roy Crane. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "WALT DISNEY'S BAMBI, No. 12." Cover art by Ken Hultgren. Illustration of Friend Owl, with head shots of the other characters in each corner by Hultgren. Bambi, script by Felix Salten (original story) and Chase Craig (adaptation), art by Ken Hultgren; The adventures of Bambi and his friends as he grows from a new-born fawn into his birthright as Prince of the Forest. Inside back cover Bambi in the forest art by Hultgren. Back cover Thumper art by Hultgren. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Mr. District Attorney (#1)-See Funnies, The (1936 Dell) #35 for 1st appearance. Stories by unknown. Art by Maurice Kashuba and Jim Chambers. Cover by Jim Chambers. Featuring reprint tales from The Funnies. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title: Smilin' Jack. No. 14. Untitled Smilin' Jack stories. Smilin' Jack infiltrates The Ring disguised as Powder. The Head finds out Jack is Powder; Jack escapes. Jack's plane crashes and he ends up on an island; It happens to be the island in which Powder is engaged to the Chief's daughter. Smilin' Jack is still being mistaken as someone named Powder, and he is forced to marry Boona Goo. Limehouse puts Jack and Fat Stuff in jail and to work in the sulphur mine. Smilin' Jack, Fat Stuff, The Head and The Claw escape from jail, but are eventually caught. Smilin' Jack escapes from prison again, and it looks like he may be rescued. Downwind rescues Jack from the island and brings him back to civilization. Scripts and art by Zack Mosley. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "FELIX THE CAT, No. 15." Introduction of Felix the Cat, Danny Dooit, Professor Bop, Tuffy Spinacker, and The Captain. Untitled Felix the Cat story, script and art by Otto Mesmer; Felix and Danny go on a sailing expedition that discovers an island inhabited by strange beasts. Reprinted from Felix the Cat (King Features Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1935. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "PORKY PIG, No. 16." Cover art by Chase Craig. Porky and Petunia paint an introduction to the stories in the issue on a board fence, art by Carl Buettner. Porky Pig and -Sh-h-h!!- Th' Secret of the Haunted House!, script by Chase Craig, art by Carl Buettner; Porky and Petunia spend the night in a haunted house, not knowing that it's the hideout for a gang of counterfeiters. Porky Pig Meets Beaky Buzzard, script and art by Chase Craig; Porky and his friends write millionaire Wilfred Crump to ask for a small loan to buy a gold mine. Hollywood gossip style page of facts about Porky, art by Carl Buettner. Porky paints "That's All Folks!" on the same board fence as the inside front cover, art by Carl Buettner. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.