Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) comic books 1943

Indicia title is "POPEYE AND WIMPY, No. 17." Untitled Thimble Theatre stories with Popeye and the gang. Pappy insists on sitting on tacks when he visits the Oyl family for dinner. Wimpy is mad at Pappy because he ordered food and then left Wimpy with the bill. Popeye takes Pappy to a party, but he makes a shambles of it. Popeye takes Pappy to another party. Pappy tricks the hostess into sitting on a tack. Pappy takes a mermaid to a dance, but Pooky Jones has to carry her and do the dancing. Popeye invents a machine to put a diaper on Swee'pea. Popeye improves his invention so that it gives babies a bath before putting on their diaper. Swee'pea is upset when he doesn't win a prize in the baby contest. Reprinted from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) strips. Scripts and art by E. C. Segar, some strips have art by Bela Zaboly. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Beautiful World War II patriotic flag cover. Indicia title is "LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE'S JUNIOR COMMANDOS, No. 18." Untitled Little Orphan Annie story, script and art by Harold Gray; Annie organizes the local kids into the "Junior Commandos" to do homefront war work like collecting scrap and selling war bonds; Annie befriends Mrs. Sleet, a bitter old woman who lost her son and husband in "the last war" (World War I); Doc Zee joins the Army and Annie comes to live with Mrs. Sleet, who she now refers to as "Auntie Priss"; A hardbitten refugee boy called Driftwood comes to live in the house; Later Annie uncovers a German Fifth Column operation; A brief cameo of Daddy Warbucks fighting in Asia, then back to Annie and the kids watching a sub attack a ship, whose captain is Annie's old friend Shanghai Peg; Later Annie hears a radio report that Warbucks and his company had been killed in battle; Doc Zee returns from the war, minus an arm. Flag Cover; reprints strips from 6/14/42 to 11/21/42. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "WALT DISNEY'S THUMPER MEETS THE SEVEN DWARFS, No. 19." Cover art by Carl Buettner. Thumper Meets the Seven Dwarfs, script and art by Carl Buettner; Thumper goes on a quest to find the "end of the world"; He falls in a hole, which leads to the Seven Dwarfs' diamond mine; After spending the night at the Dwarfs' house, Thumper takes a drink from a "wishing well"; Thumper wishes to meet a giant and is captured by one; He is taken to the giant's castle to be kept as a pet; Thumper wishes for Doc and Dopey to help him and they magically appear in the castle and help him escape; After a series of adventures, Thumper wishes the trio was back in the Dwarfs' house. Reprinted in Silly Simphonies. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and Art by Frank Miller. Reprints of Barney Baxter in the Air newspaper strips (King Features Syndicate, Inc.), 1938-1939. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "OSWALD, THE RABBIT, No. 21." Easter Adventures starring Oswald, art by Ken Hultgren; Oswald and his friends have a series of adventures and misadventures as they prepare for Easter. Oswald the Rabbit back cover art by Ken Hultgren. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories, Art and Cover by Russ Westover. Reprints of Tillie the Toiler dailies (King Features Syndicate, Inc.), circa 1937-1940. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and Art by unknown. Featuring Raggedy Ann and Andy, along with the Raggedys' old friends The Loonies, Friendly Dragon, Snoopwiggy, Grinny Bear and all the others! 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Gang Busters. Stories by unknown. Art by Dan Gormley, Bob Jenney (as R.L.J.), Jim Chambers and E.C. Stoner. Featuring reprint tales such as "The Zorko Jail Break," "Crime Cult," "The Higgins Gang," "The 'John Doe' Gang," "The D'Ambrosio Brothers," "The Sea Gull Gang" and "The Silk Hat Gang"! Starring Chief John Winston. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

"Andy Panda and Tiny Tim" - Story by unknown. Art and Covers by Jim Pabian. Starring Andy Panda! 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "POPEYE, No. 26." Several untitled Thimble Theatre stories, scripts and art by E. C. Segar. Wimpy double-talks a farmer into giving him a cow. Wimpy shoots a farmer's cow, but Popeye gets the blame. Geezil and Popeye eat at Wimpy's café; Wimpy's cooking methods are a somewhat unorthodox. Wimpy makes Popeye feel guilty when he kills a rabbit to feed to a hungry dog. Popeye gives Wimpy some hamburgers to feed to a hungry dog, but Wimpy eats them himself. Geezil complains about Wimpy's soup, until Wimpy tells Geezil he should be mayor. After Wimpy drops a steak on the floor, Popeye demands a new steak; Wimpy tricks him into taking the original one. Popeye has a nightmare where he is knocked out in a prize fight. Swee'pea's real mother comes to claim him; Swee'pea runs away and with Wimpy's help is re-united with Popeye. Swee'pea adopts a pelican. Swee'pea adopts a pelican. Reprinted from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1930s. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "WALT DISNEY'S MICKEY MOUSE, No. 27." Cover art possibly by Ken Hultgren. The Seven-Colored Terror!, script and art by Ken Hultgren; Mickey, Minnie, and Pluto go to Lake Tranquil to take summer jobs, only to find that the tourist trade is being scared off by a ferocious seven-colored mountain lion. The Great Swami Mooh-lah, art by Ken Hultgren; Minnie inherits some money and decides to open a gift shop. Villain of the Victory Garden, art by Ken Hultgren; Someone is vandalizing Mickey and his friends' Victory Gardens. Untitled back cover strip, art by Ken Hultgren; Mickey and Minnie ride a bicycle and pull Pluto in a trailer behind them. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "WASH TUBBS, No. 28." Several untitled Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune stories, scripts and art by Roy Crane. Wash has followed Carol McKee and her father to Panazuela; He brought Captain Easy, who was suffering from amnesia from a blow on the head; They are thrown into prison when a revolution starts. Bull Dawson steals the country's $6 million in gold, but the boat gets hung up on a sandbar. Easy gets control of the boat from Dawson and dumps the gold overboard in order to get away; The group is picked up by a ship and return to the United States. Rowden Splendix plants a fake story about Wash's father returning from Africa, then hires a bum to play the part. With Wash's bum of a father fouling up his relationship with the McKees, Rowden Splendix and his father up the ante by having him take a woman "customer" out on the town. Easy finds Wash on his "date" with I.R. Splendix's hired girl, Fifi, and substitutes himself at the pair's table. Easy goes to the police and fingers Bolito Coker as the one who killed I.R. Splendix. Wash, still on the run with his bum "father," hides out on a houseboat; They end up at the farm of the bum's long-deserted wife and son. Reprinted from Wash Tubbs (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1939. 60 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "DONALD DUCK AND THE MUMMY'S RING, No. 29."Cover art by Carl Buettner. Intro in which Donald puts up wall posters with the story titles on them, art by Carl Buettner. Donald Duck and the Mummy's Ring, script and art by Carl Barks; Huey is trapped inside a mummy case and taken to Egypt by emissaries of the Bey El Dagga, who is restoring life in his province to the way it was in ancient times. The Hard Loser, script and art by Carl Barks; Donald and the nephews are rivals in the "Screwball Derby," a cross-country horse race in which any dirty trick may be played on the other contestants. Too Many Pets, script by Carl Barks and Merrill de Maris (plot), art by Carl Barks; An organ grinder gives the nephews a monkey named Jingo, who plays hob with Donald's house until Donald sells him to a stranger. Back cover in which Donald is on a ladder closing the book, art by Carl Buettner. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "BAMBI'S CHILDREN, No. 30." Cover art by Ken Hultgren. Bambi's Children, script by Felix Salten (original story), art by Ken Hultgren; The adventures of the children of Bambi and Faline (Gino and Gurri), Thumper (Hopper and Patter), and Flower (Buttercup and Primrose). Map of the Forest filler page, art by Ken Hultgren. Back cover portrait-style illustration of Bambi with his children Geno and Gurri, art by Ken Hultgren. 60 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "MOON MULLINS, No. 31." Several untitled Moon Mullins stories, most scripts and art by Fred Willard. Mr. and Mrs. Crawfish want Kayo to live with them. Mr. and Mrs. Crawfish throw a party and hire Moon to help out. Emmy accuses Lord Plushbottom of seeing another woman and he gets upset and leaves. Emmy and Moon hunt for him. Kayo comes home from the Crawfishes; Emmy finds Lord Plushbottom living in a hotel with his cousin, Sir Ambrose P.T.M. Plushbottom. Cousin Ambrose has a dinner party and Emmy discloses that Lord Plushbottom is almost broke. Dotty and her parents are having a picnic, but didn't take Kayo. Mamie and Willie return to the Plushbottom residence. Moon goes to visit Cousin Ambrose's maid on a night Ambrose is having a dinner party. Lord Plushbottom, Emmy, and Kayo make the trip to England where they are met by Cousin Ambrose, his wife, Dotty, and Uncle Stymie. Reprinted from Moon Mullins (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) daily strips from 1938. 60 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "SMITTY, No. 32." Several untitled Smitty stories, scripts and art by Walter Berndt. Smitty gets his friend Stanley a job at Mr. Bailey's company. Stanley, the new boy, gets Smitty demoted from his job as office boy, so he can take it. Smitty schemes to get Stanley in trouble so he can get his old job back. Stanley's plot to take Smitty's job is revealed when the public address system is accidentally switched on. George, the Indian guide from the North Woods, comes to the city and gets a job as caretaker of Mr. Bailey's new home at the top of a 36-story building. George's donkey has a baby and George takes a train back to the North Woods. Smitty is found by two Indians and is taken to their camp. Smitty falls into the daily routine at the Indian camp. Smitty and his Indian friend find a bear cub in the woods and bring it back to the camp. Smitty saves the bear cub when he finds a dead wolf under a bush. Reprinted from Smitty (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1937 and 1938. 60 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "BUGS BUNNY, No. 33." Cover art by Carl Buettner. Bugs Bunny---Public Nuisance No. 1; Bugs and Hopalong Casserole, the grasshopper, have a contest to see who can be more annoying. Bugs Bunny Tries the Easy Life; Bugs decides that he should get adopted by a rich family; Unfortunately the wealthy man who picks him is more interested in adding him to his list of hunting trophies; He takes Bugs (and Elmer) to an island for a version of "The Most Dangerous Game." Bugs Bunny and the Fang-Toothed Bandit; Petunia's Uncle Ham has disappeared; Porky, disguised as Petunia, and Bugs go to Buzzard Hollow to take charge of Ham's ranch. Activity page—A cut-out with a strip that makes Bugs' eyes go back and forth. Art on all strips by Carl Buettner. 60 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.