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

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"The Story of Mankind" - Written by Gaylord Du Bois. Art by Bob Jenney. Photo Cover shows Napoleon (Dennis Hopper), Marc Antony (Helmut Dantine), Cleopatra (Virginia Mayo), Old Scratch [The Devil] (Vincent Price), The Spirit of Man (Ronald Colman), Queen Elizabeth I (Agnes Moorehead) and Joan of Arc (Hedy Lamarr). Explorer...warrior...dreamer -- a brief history of mankind! Not an adaptation of the movie -- based in part on the 1921 novel The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "CHILLY WILLY, No. 852." Chilly Willy and the Wandering Whaler; An Eskimo tries to harpoon Chilly's friend, Waldo Whale. The Sun Seeker; A motion picture producer is searching for locations for his next picture; Chilly sneaks aboard when the plane lands in the Antarctic, and ends up part of a movie that's filmed in a desert. The Helpful Hint; Billy Bear is depressed because he hasn't done anything important. Flying High; Chilly tries to learn to fly. Polar Pride; Patty recruits Chilly to help improve the community; Bully Bear wrecks some of the improvements and Chilly has to find a way to get rid of Bully. All interior art by Vivie Risto. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Paul Murry. Stories by Don R. Christensen. Art by Jack Bradbury and Paul Murry. Sixth of ten Pluto Four Color issues. Featuring the tales "The Polka-dotted Poocheroo," "Chipmunk Monkeyshines," "Hypnotism Tizzies," "The Unwatchful Watchdog" and "Radio Ruckus," plus three untitled 1-page stories. Starring Pluto, Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Horace Horsecollar, Chip 'n' Dale, Scuttle, Morty and Ferdie, Professor Poodery and Butch! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "BROKEN ARROW, No. 855." Based on the 1956-58 CBS TV series "Broken Arrow." Photo cover of Cochise (as played by Michael Ansara) and Tom Jeffords (as played by John Lupton). Intro with photos from the TV show. Apache Dowry, script by Otto Binder; A young brave steals horses from a rancher and Indian Agent Tom Jeffords and Cochise must find a way to avoid a range war between the Apaches and the ranchers. Kingdom of Terror, script by Otto Binder; A Spanish Land Grant Plantation, where American law isn't honored, is using Apaches as slave labor. Facts about Apache Indians. Article on Apache chief Cochise and his problems with the Army. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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#857, 1957, 10c. The Goofy Adventure Story. Goofy tells about the family tree to his son which leads into stories about different Goofy ancestors: "Knight for a Day," "Californy or Bust," "African Diary," and "For Whom the Bulls Toil," Issue also has one-page Goofy puzzles and games. Story and art credits: unknown. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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#858, 1957, 10c. Daisy Duck's Diary. Daisy Duck's diary relates her adventures with Donald and other characters. Issue features six untitled stories. Issue also has one-page gag strips and puzzles. Story and art credits: unknown. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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10¢ Edition. Indicia title is "WYATT EARP, No. 860." Based on the "Wyatt Earp" TV series. Cover photo of Wyatt Earp (as played by Hugh O'Brian). Terror Town, script by Eric Freiwald and Robert Schaefer, art by Russ Manning; After gunmen rob a stage and take the Mayor of Dodge City hostage, Wyatt Earp and his deputy track them to an old Army post on a high mesa. Doomsday at Dodge City, script by Eric Freiwald and Robert Schaefer, art by Russ Manning; Bank robber Loop Hackett comes to Dodge to settle a score with Wyatt Earp. Short biography of frontier law officer Bill Tilghman, art by Manning. An account of a showdown between Wyatt Earp and Clay Allison, art by Manning. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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15¢ Edition. Indicia title is "WYATT EARP, No. 860." Based on the "Wyatt Earp" TV series. Cover photo of Wyatt Earp (as played by Hugh O'Brian). Terror Town, script by Eric Freiwald and Robert Schaefer, art by Russ Manning; After gunmen rob a stage and take the Mayor of Dodge City hostage, Wyatt Earp and his deputy track them to an old Army post on a high mesa. Doomsday at Dodge City, script by Eric Freiwald and Robert Schaefer, art by Russ Manning; Bank robber Loop Hackett comes to Dodge to settle a score with Wyatt Earp. Short biography of frontier law officer Bill Tilghman, art by Manning. An account of a showdown between Wyatt Earp and Clay Allison, art by Manning. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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The Truth About Mother Goose. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "FRANCIS, THE FAMOUS TALKING MULE, No. 863." Based on the "Francis the Talking Mule" series of movies. Cover art by David Gantz. Francis in Mexico; Francis and Pete go to Mexico after Francis gets Pete a job as a bullfighter. The Gooney Bird; Francis and Pete cause a commotion at the zoo when they go there to see the rare talking Gooney Bird. All art by David Gantz. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Walt Disney's "Andy Burnett" - Written by unknown. Art by Bill Ziegler. Photo Cover shows Andy Burnett (Jerome Courtland). The issue also has the 1-page story "Mountain Men" and the text article "The Santa Fe Trail." 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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10¢ Edition. Walt Disney's "Mars and Beyond," A Science Feature From Tomorrowland - Written by Don R. Christensen. Art by Tony Sgroi. Are we alone in the endless universe of space? What will we find on Mars...and beyond? The issue also has the text articles "Another Science Factual," "Science Facts" and "The Eighteeen-Month Year." 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "SANTA CLAUS FUNNIES, No. 867." Painted cover art. Christmas Eve poem, art by Mel Crawford. Santa's Suit, art by Mel Crawford; Santa's red suit blows off the clothesline where Mrs. Claus put it to air out before Santa's big Christmas trip; The suit blows to the door of Pete Polar Bear who assumes it's a Christmas present for him. Stocking word scramble. Santa's Helper, art by Dan Gormley; Santa enlists Kenny to help him when his address book gets wet in a blizzard and the ink runs. Christmas in Many Lands article. Sooky's First Christmas, art by Dan Gormley; Sooky the pup slips out the front door of his house and gets caught in a snowstorm on Christmas eve. Christmas Tree Connect-the-Dots puzzle. A Christmas Present for Betsy Mouse, art by Don Gunn. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "THE LITTLE PEOPLE, No. 868." Painted cover art by Mel Crawford. A Topsy-Turvy Christmas; The Little People fall down a hole and end up in Topsy-Turvy Land, where everything is backwards; In that place Christmas is a sad time because the Snoorg (Groons) take presents, not give them. New Skates; Loop gets a pair of ice skates for Christmas. Wrapping a Gift; Chub gift-wraps a package without putting the gift inside. All interior art by Dan Gormley. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Walt Disney's "Old Yeller" - Written by unknown (movie adaptation). Art by Dan Spiegle. Photo Cover shows Old Yeller (as played by Spike) and Travis Coates (as played by Tommy Kirk). The remarkable story of a loyal Texas range dog and his teenage master! Based on the 1957 Walt Disney film Old Yeller. The issue also has the 1-page story "Hound from a Pound" and the text article "Canine Heroes of the Frontier"! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "CAPTAIN KANGAROO, No. 872." Based on the 1955-84 CBS "Captain Kangaroo" TV series. Photo cover of Captain Kangaroo (as played by Bob Keeshan). Intro with three photos. A Most Unhappy Burro; The Captain and Mr. Green Jeans have to deal with a stubborn burro. The Unhappiest Knight; The Captain tells a story featuring the Treasure House cast in the parts of knights in armor who have to deal with a dragon. The Gentle Giant; Grandfather Clock tells the story of Jack and the Beanstalk, with the Treasure House cast taking the parts. Midnight Mystery; at midnight, all the toys in the Treasure House come alive. All interior pencils by Mike Sekowsky. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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10¢ Edition. Cover pencils by Tony Strobl. Stories by Vic Lockman and various. Art by Tony Strobl, John Liggera and Lee Hooper. Second of seven Grandma Duck's Farm Friends Four Color issues. Featuring the tales "Frigid Frolic," "Art Antics," "Night Watch-wolf" and "The Barn Dance Bedlam," plus an untitled 1-page story and five activity pages. Starring Grandma Duck, Huey, Dewey, Louie, Gus Goose, Clarabelle Cow, Foulfellow's Club [Big Bad Wolf, Brer Fox, Brer Bear], Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Uncle Scrooge, Clara Cluck and Gypsy Rosalie's! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Walt Disney's "Old Ironsides" with Johnny Tremain - Written by unknown (movie adaptation). Art by Dan Spiegle. Painted Cover by Taylor Oughton? The issue also has the 1-page stories "Words That Live Forever," "The Eagle and the Poet" (dealing with the writing of Old Ironsides by Oliver Wendell Holmes) and "American Privateers." 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "Luke Short's TRUMPETS WEST!, No. 875." Painted cover art by Sam Savitt. Luke Short's Trumpets West, script by Luke Short (original story) and Paul S. Newman (comic adaptation), pencils by Mike Roy, inks by Mike Peppe; Corinne, a corrupt Indian agent, is giving the Apaches bad meat and pocketing the difference; Lt. Hanna knows what is going on, but his oblivious commanding officer ignores the problem, which leads to an Indian uprising. Adapted from the 1945 novel "Trumpets West!" by Luke Short. The Cavalry Standard; Designs and uses of the flags in the cavalry in the Old West. Cavalry Uniforms; Facts about the stylish, but uncomfortable cavalry uniforms in the Old West. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Photo cover of Jim Hardie (as played by Dale Robertson). Strong Box Fever photo story; Jim Hardie tracks down a robber that robs a train of a strong box. Alder Gulch, pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Frank Giacoia; Hardie investigates a series of stagecoach robberies in a remote area called "Alder Gulch; The sheriff in Virginia City doesn't seem very interested in solving the thefts, which makes Hardie suspicious. Manuel, pencils by Gil Kane; A Basque immigrant sheepherder is accused of kidnapping a little girl and stealing a valuable diamond brooch and Hardie has to prevent a lynching. Famous Road Agents, pencils by Gil Kane; brief summaries of three famous stagecoach robbers. Based on the 1957-62 NBC TV series. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Photo Cover shows Zorro (as played by Guy Williams). Stories by unknown. Art by Alex Toth. Based on the 1957-59 ABC TV series Zorro. Seventh Four Color issue to feature the character Zorro; first of seven Four Colors to feature Walt Disney's Zorro. Featuring the tales "Presenting Senior Zorro" and "Zorro's Secret Passage," plus the 1-page story "Along Zorro's Trail" drawn by Russ Manning (travelogue of several old-Spanish sites that have survived into Modern California) and the text article "The First Vaqueros." 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "HAWKEYE AND THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS, No. 884". Based on the syndicated TV series "Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans." Photo cover of John Hart (as Nat "Hawkeye" Cutler) and Lon Chaney, Jr. (as Chingachgook). One large action photo with short teaser for first story. False Witness; two white men, Jake Collins and Hans Bachus, engage Indians to help them with a racket; they sell wagons to settlers. Powder Keg; The leader of a fur-trading company makes a deal with Huron Indians to provide them with rifles and gunpowder in exchange for their furs; He gives the Indians rifles, but has no gunpowder. Facts about Indian alliances with the French and English in 18th Century North America. Facts about Indian methods of fighting the early settlers of North America. All interior art by Bob Jenney. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories by unknown. Art and Cover by Frank McSavage. Second of two Bongo and Lumpjaw Four Color issues. Featuring the tales "The Flip-flop Flyer," "Rockabye Bear," "Good Eggs" and "The Little Critter," plus three untitled 1-page stories. Starring Bongo, Lumpjaw and Rackey Raccoon! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Walt Disney's The Hardy Boys in "The Mystery of Ghost Farm" - Written by Jackson Gillis (screenplay) and unknown (adaptation). Art by Dan Spiegle. Photo Cover shows Frank Hardy (as played by Tim Considine) and Joe Hardy (as played by Tommy Kirk). Third of four Hardy Boys Four Color issues. Based on the 1957 Mickey Mouse Club serial 'The Mystery of Ghost Farm'! The issue also has the activity page "Ghost Farm Maze." 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "ELMER FUDD, No. 888." Cover art by Ralph Heimdahl. Rabbit Punch-y; Wanting to get away from Bugs, Elmer volunteers to test an experimental time machine; He goes back hundreds of years only to meet Bugs' "gweat, gweat, gweat gwandaddy"; The pair then play out the Jack and the Beanstalk story. Lucky Ducky; Elmer goes golfing with his boss, but Daffy comes along as Elmer's caddy and disrupts things. Hobby Hassle; Elmer's new neighbor is wrestler Crusher McKirk, who is driving Elmer crazy with his loud and bad horn playing. Fair Weather Friend; Elmer is a contestant on a TV quiz show and his task is to bring in a little black duck. All interior art by Phil de Lara. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Walt Disney's Clint and Mac with art by the immortal Alex Toth. "The Adventures of Clint and Mac" was a Mickey Mouse Club serial that ran for 14 episodes. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "WYATT EARP, No. 890." Based on the "Wyatt Earp" TV series. Photo cover of Wyatt Earp (as played by Hugh O'Brian). The Twelve-Inch Law fact page; How Wyatt Earp received his special gun from writer Ned Buntline. Tin Star Trouble; Deputy Marshal Jeff Moore, who is looking to make a name for himself, is sent to Dodge City for some training under Wyatt Earp. The Last of the Buffalo Hunters; Three former buffalo hunters are trying to start a freight line in Dodge, but a competitor tries to frame them as arsonists and vandals in order to force them out of business. Fire! fact page; How fires were fought in the Old West. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Ad back cover. Walt Disney's "Light in the Forrest" starring FESS PARKER as Del Hardy, JAMES MacARTHUR as True Son (John Butler), CAROL LYNLEY as Shenandoe, WENDELL COREY as Wilse Owens, JOANNE DRU as Milly Elder, JESSICA TANDY as Myra Butler, JOHN McINTIRE as John Elder, JOSEPH CALLEIA as Chief Cuyloga, RAFAEL CAMPOS as Half Arrow, FRANK FERGUSON as Harry Butler, NORMAN FREDRIC as Niskitoon, MARIAN SEIDES as Kate Owens, STEPHEN BEKASSYas Colonel Henry Bouquet, and SAM BUFFINGTON as George Owens. Photo cover. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Art back cover. Walt Disney's "Light in the Forrest" starring FESS PARKER as Del Hardy, JAMES MacARTHUR as True Son (John Butler), CAROL LYNLEY as Shenandoe, WENDELL COREY as Wilse Owens, JOANNE DRU as Milly Elder, JESSICA TANDY as Myra Butler, JOHN McINTIRE as John Elder, JOSEPH CALLEIA as Chief Cuyloga, RAFAEL CAMPOS as Half Arrow, FRANK FERGUSON as Harry Butler, NORMAN FREDRIC as Niskitoon, MARIAN SEIDES as Kate Owens, STEPHEN BEKASSYas Colonel Henry Bouquet, and SAM BUFFINGTON as George Owens. Photo cover. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "JIM BOWIE, No. 893." Based on 1956-58 ABC TV series "The Adventures of Jim Bowie." Photo cover of Jim Bowie (as played by Scott Forbes). Intro with photos. Jim Bowie's Secret; Jim Bowie comes to Swamp City, Louisiana, to visit his brother Ed and finds that the town is in control of a crooked sheriff. Thieves Paradise; Bowie happens across waterfront thieves stealing a piece of cargo; He takes the box to his room, where he finds the pirate Jean Lafitte waiting for him. Scripts by Eric Freiwald and Robert Schaefer, art by Bill Ziegler. How the Bowie brothers invented the "Bowie Knife." How Jim Bowie perfected his knife and had a prototype forged by blacksmith James Black. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "Walter Lantz OSWALD THE RABBIT, No. 894." Cover art by John Carey. Tropical Trickery, art by Pete Alvarado; Oswald plans to go seek his fortune in Alaska, but the boys plant a subliminal suggestion to go to the tropics instead. Hare-Sized Hero, art by Pete Alvarado; After Oswald accidentally captures a wanted criminal, the boys think he's a hero. Oswald the Rabbit and the Birthday Boat, art by Fred Abranz; The boys build a homemade boat for Oswald's birthday, but it sinks when Oswald steps foot on it. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "WAGON TRAIN, No. 893." Based on the 1957-65 NBC/ABC TV series "Wagon Train." Photo cover of Major Seth Adams (as played by Ward Bond). Intro with three photos. Fury at Blue River; Major Adams' wagon train comes under attack by outlaws at a ford at Blue River; An old man, a former marshal, goes by himself to find the outlaw's hideout. Sioux Ambush; A school teacher is forced to bury the textbooks for her school when the wagon train is attacked by a band of renegade Sioux Indians and is forced to flee to the Army fort. The Scout; duties of the scout for a wagon train. The Wagon Master; duties of the wagon master of a wagon train. Scripts by Eric Freiwald and Robert Schaefer, art by Nicholas Firfires. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Walt Disney's Adventures of Tinker Bell. Painted Cover by Norm McGary? Stories by Carl Fallberg and various. Art by Al Hubbard. Featuring the tales "The Pirate Plot," "The Grounded Witch," "Dumbo's Dilemma" and "The Delayed Parade," plus two untitled stories and the activity page "Tinker Bell and Her Pixie Duster For You to Cut Out and Fly"! Starring Tinker Bell, Peter Pan, The Lost Boys, Captain Hook, Mr. Smee, Seven Dwarfs, The Wicked Witch, Dumbo, Pinocchio, Gepetto, Jiminy Cricket and Monstro! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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#899, 1958, 10c. Walt Disney's Goofy Goofy in "Mixed-Up Mixer," "Fun Director," "The Painting Panic," "Goofy's Last Stand," and one-page gag strips. Story and art credits: unknown. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Prince Valiant in "Island of Thunder" - Written by Paul S. Newman. Art by Bob Fujitani. Painted Cover by George Wilson. Seventh of seven Prince Valiant Four Color issues. The issue also has the 1-page stories "A Knight's Armor" and "The Trireme." 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.