Four Color (1939-1942 Dell 1st Series) comic books 1940

Myra North, Special Nurse. Cover by Charles Coll. Stories by Ray Thompson. Art by Charles Coll. Four Color is the collective title for Dell's long, irregularly published series of one-shots. This issue reprints color Sunday pages of the comic strip Myra North, Special Nurse, about a nurse with some truly bizarre adventures. Myra assists Dr. Duval with a brain operation, but then she learns that the patient is an ape that Duval plans to use for a bank robbery! Twins get Myra involved with a kidnapping case. Myra finds murder in a nightclub called the Purple Slipper. 64 pages, Full Color. 10c cover price. Cover price $0.10.

Donald Duck. Cover by Tom Wood? Stories by Bob Karp. Art by Al Taliaferro. Featuring reprints of over 100 daily Donald Duck strips (King Features Syndicate). 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Smilin' Jack. Stories and art by Zack Mosley. Four Color is the collective title for Dell's long, irregularly published series of one-shots. This issue reprints classic episodes of the aviation comic strip Smilin' Jack. Jack enters a transcontinental air race, but he doesn't know that twins Bat and Rat are planning to pull a fast one with their identical planes. Dude Duncan tries to woo Dixie away from Jack. Von Bosch sabotages Jack's plane by filing the control wires. 64 pages, Full Color. 10c cover price. Cover price $0.10.

Dick Tracy. Stories and art by Chester Gould. Four Color is the collective title for Dell's long, irregularly published series of one-shots. This issue reprints classic Sunday episodes of the comic strip Dick Tracy. Tracy tries to protect wealthy but clueless Johnny Mintworth from a string of con artists and outright thieves. But Mintworth gets involved with gangster Danny Supeena's gang. When he gets in too deep, Johnny and his family pay the price. 64 pages, Full Color. 10c cover price. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Jim Chambers. Gang Busters. Stories and art by Tom Hickey, Jim Chambers, Al McWilliams and Bill Ely. Four Color is the collective title for Dell's long, irregularly published series of one-shots. This issue reprints the crime drama based on Philip H. Lord's radio program (later a TV show) that appeared in Popular Comics. The Gang Busters go after the Markey Brothers gang. His gang captured, Jack Markey tries to lay low, but he keeps bootlegging. G-Man John Winston has a showdown in Baltimore with the Tri-State Gang. 64 pages, Full Color. 10c cover price. Cover price $0.10.

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Dick Tracy. Stories and art by Chester Gould. Four Color is the collective title for Dell's long, irregularly published series of one-shots. This issue reprints classic Sunday episodes of the comic strip Dick Tracy. On vacation at Pop Gaines' health resort, Tracy goes back into action when Pop's son Mickey gets involved with gangster Nails Wolley. After a shootout between Nails and Tracy, Mickey goes on the run. This leads to a dangerous showdown atop a dam. 64 pages, Full Color. 10c cover price. Cover price $0.10.

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Terry and the Pirates. Stories and art by Milton Caniff. Four Color is the collective title for Dell's long, irregularly published series of one-shots. This issue reprints color Sunday pages of Milton Caniff's influential comic strip Terry and the Pirates. Pat's friend Normandie Drake supports her new husband Sandhurst in his dispute with a Chinese city, until she realizes that he's cut off their supplies just to teach them a lesson. As winter sets in on the northern Chinese town, Pat, Terry and Connie are taken in by the locals, who are none too pleased that Sandhurst has cut off their winter food supply. When Sandhurst's house of cards collapses and people are calling for his head, Pat has to get Normandie and Sandhurst out of town, by force if necessary. 64 pages, Full Color. 10c cover price. Cover price $0.10.

Smilin' Jack. Stories and art by Zack Mosley. Four Color is the collective title for Dell's long, irregularly published series of one-shots. This issue reprints classic episodes of the aviation comic strip Smilin' Jack. Bonita's kiss-and-claw approach distracts Smilin' Jack while he's trying to navigate his plane through the Andes. Smilin' Jack learns the secret of the Legion of Forgotten Pilots. Dude convinces Dixie to marry him instead of Jack, but then spends all their money on gambling and Sherry - his ex Sherry, that is. 64 pages, Full Color. 10c cover price. Cover price $0.10.

Smitty. Stories, Art and Cover by Walter Berndt. Featuring reprints of Smitty newspaper strips from 1936. George Bailey gives Smitty two shares of stock in his company for Christmas not realizing that his giving up those two shares costs him his position as majority stockholder. In gratitude for Smitty returning his shares of stock to George Bailey, restoring Bailey to his position as majority stockholder, the reinstated boss takes his office boy on a vacation to the North Woods. Wealthy Roger King plans to marry Mrs. Smith, whose husband disappeared years ago in an airline accident. Mr. Smith turns up as a helper to Roger King's gardeners, but with a case of amnesia, complicating the wedding plans. In further wedding woes, George Bailey does his best to extricate himself from an inadvertent promise to marry Miss Dolly Flutter. Also includes five additional Smitty 1-pagers. 64 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Little Orphan Annie. Cover by Harold Gray. Stories and art by Harold Gray. Four Color is the collective title for Dell's long, irregularly published series of one-shots. This issue reprints classic episodes of the adventure comic strip Little Orphan Annie. Accidentally stowing away on a semi truck, Annie and Sandy are abandoned in the midst of a raging blizzard. Then they find a woman and her baby in a snowdrift, and try to get them to safety. Later, Annie fears her friend Jack's going to kill himself with his reckless driving. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.