Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) comic books 1944

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Indicia title is "DICK TRACY, No. 34." Several untitled Dick Tracy strips, scripts and art by Chester Gould. John Lavir blackmails Tess into helping him with his stolen dog racket; She and Lavir get into a scuffle and the police find Lavir with his throat cut and charge Tess. Tracy and Pat try to prevent the hijacking of a truckload of furs, but get caught in a fiery crash; Tracy gets Fred Marken to help set up a trap for the fur thieves. Stooge Viller gets $55,000 from a safe-deposit box and goes into business with "The Professor" manufacturing small items that would be useful for criminals. Tracy finds The Professor's workshop, but is captured by Stooge Viller. After being accidentally shot by his daughter, Stooge Viller tries to escape by swimming across a river, but drowns. The baby's grandfather snatches the baby from the police station and takes it to his laboratory where he injects it with tropic sleep germs. Reprinted from Dick Tracy (Chicago Tribune) newspaper strips from 1938-1940. 60 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "SMOKEY STOVER, No. 35." Cover art by Bill Holman. Several untitled Smokey Stover strips, scripts and art by Bill Holman. Hotfoot Hogan hooks up two miles of fire hose to a hydrant so he can have running water at home. Smokey is quarantined for measles in a phone booth. Smokey finds a goat, but it eats the cans from a case of tomato soup and leaves the soup. Smokey introduces the Chief to a hair tonic salesman. Smokey tries to carry a player piano to the fourth floor, but it ends up in the basement. Smokey and the Chief deal with firebug Arson Nick; The Chief tries to grow hair and settles for a toupee. Smokey takes dancing lessons. Reprinted from Smokey Stover (News Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1938-1941. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "SMILIN' JACK, No. 36." Several untitled Smilin' Jack strips. Just when Jack is set to marry Mary, his former fiancee Dixie Lee returns, now widowed and blind. Mary and Jack fly Dixie to a specialist to check her eyes; On the way Dixie leaves the plane, not wanting to come between Jack and Mary. While saving Dixie and Mary in the wind tunnel, Jack's legs are badly burned by a steam pipe. While he's recuperating in the hospital, his roommate is Downwind, who was roughed up by all the girls he was stringing along. Jack opens his pilot training classes for college students, one of whom is afraid of planes. Madam Mongoose gathers a group who all have had trouble with the law. Madam Mongoose and Longdrink sabotage Jack's plane before he demonstrates some maneuvers for his class. Reprinted from Smilin' Jack (News Syndicate Co.) newspaper strips from 1938-1940, and from Popular Comics (Dell, 1936 series) #91 (September 1943). 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "BRINGING UP FATHER, No. 37." Several untitled Bringing Up Father strips, scripts and art by George McManus. Jiggs and Maggie try to get away from a boring couple, but meet them again at the movies. Jiggs uses construction equipment to sneak out of the house. Jiggs sneaks into the house after staying out late. Jiggs and his pals get a poker game together in a construction office hoisted high in the air by a crane. The men at a party go out to the garden, where Jiggs has started a dice game. Jiggs' doctor prescribes a trip to the mountains, but Maggie goes instead. After spending much effort opening and unpacking a barrel, Jiggs discovers it was delivered to him by mistake. Jiggs and Maggie to a quiet cottage in the country, which is quickly overrun by relatives. Jiggs sets the gossips talking when he's seen talking to a tramp--Maggie's brother. Reprinted from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strips from the late 1930s and early 1940s. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "ROY ROGERS, No. 38." Roy Rogers photo cover. Filler page with drawings of Trigger and Roy's gear with brief text details. Blazing Guns, script by Gaylord Du Bois, art by Burris Jenkins; Roy comes to the aid of a rancher being forced by crooks to sell out. Roy Astride Trigger back cover photo. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "OSWALD THE RABBIT, Four Color #39." Cover art by Lloyd White. Oswald the Rabbit in Easterland, art by Lloyd White; Oswald and Toby go to Easterland, where everything is made of cookies and candy and where all the Easter candy is made. Oswald Meets Buck Beaver, art by Lloyd White; Oswald and Toby join up with Buck Beaver's medicine show. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH, No. 40." Untitled Barney Google stories, scripts and art by Billy DeBeck. In the big city, Snuffy and Lowizie's downstairs neighbors try to get them to quiet down. Barney gives Lowizie the $7.70 he won in cards from Snuffy the night before. Barney calls on an old flame, not knowing she's just gotten married. Barney takes a basket of food from Lowizie to her brother Moe. Lowizie isn't feeling well and Snuffy fetches a neighbor lady to look at her. Snuffy buys Lowizie some presents. Snuffy has the boys over for a get-together and locks Lowizie in the chicken house. Snuffy's brother Ambrose shows up after a 20 year absence. He's just escaped from prison. Snuffy plays some music on a jug, until his false teeth fall in the jug. Reprinted from Barney Google (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from the late 1930s and early 1940s. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "MOTHER GOOSE and NURSERY RHYME COMICS, No. 41." Cover art by Walt Kelly. Various nursery rhyme text/illustrations, including Rock-a-Bye Baby, There Was an Old Woman, Ding Dong Bell, Ride, Baby, Ride, Old King Cole, A Little Cockerel, Three Little Kittens, Little Boy Blue, The Cat and the Fiddle, The Little Sparrow, The North Wind, Sing a Song of Sixpence, A Dillar, A Dollar, Pussy Cat, Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill, Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush, and Hickory, Dickory, Dock. Art possibly by Arthur E. Jameson. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "TINY TIM, No. 42." Untitled Tiny Tim strips, scripts and art by Stanley Link. Tim and Dotty are working in a circus; The owner gives them a toy wind-up auto that's just their size. The circus hires a snake-charmer, but his snake escapes and chases Jitters the monkey. The circus is closing for the season and Tim, Dotty, and Jitters make the long trip back to their old home with Farmer Brown. Tim and Dotty expect to surprise the Browns when they arrive, but find they are waiting for them. Tim has a toothache; Tim and Dotty play hide 'n seek; Tim decides to put on a circus. Tim shows off his circus to Dotty. Prince cures Tim of telling tall tales. Tim and Dotty's toy car breaks down in the snow; Tim plays Santa Claus. Reprinted from Tiny Tim (News Syndicate Co.) newspaper strips from the 1930s. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "POPEYE, No. 43." Untitled Popeye/ Thimble Theatre strips. Poopdeck Pappy breaks a vase and tries to blame Swee'pea. Popeye has Wimpy write a love poem to Olive for him. Wimpy comes to mooch some food from Popeye's refrigerator. Swee'pea scares him off. Wimpy gets kicked out of a restaurant, but keeps going back in. Swee'pea is depressed, so Popeye has an artist paint "pitchers" for him. Popeye criticizes Olive's dancing. Popeye is jealous of Olive's dancing teacher. Popeye tries to make Wimpy think he's become dizzy after eating a huge mound of hamburgers. Wimpy tries to trick Popeye with a stuffed duck. Olive and Popeye sit on opposite sides of the room since they've both been eating onions. Reprints Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strips from the late 1930s and early 1940s. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "TERRY AND THE PIRATES, No. 44." Untitled Terry and the Pirates strips, scripts and art by Milton Caniff. Connie and Big Stoop get a $5,000 reward from Mr. Smythe-Heatherstone and hire servants to do their work for Pat and Terry. After a confrontation with Baron De Plexus and his bodyguard, Pat decides to leave Hong Kong and take Terry, Connie, and Big Stoop to see Smythe-Heatherstone. At the plantation, Pat and Terry meet April Kane, the young sister of Dillon Kane, who has disappeared. Pat and Connie find Dillon Kane being held captive in the cave. Sanjak shows up at De Plexus' airstrip with a hypnotized April. De Plexus and his thugs try to get information on Sanjak in Yankuk, but the populace, even the underworld, refuses to give them any information. Reprints Terry and The Pirates (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1938 and 1939. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "RAGGEDY ANN, No. 45." Cover art by George Kerr. Untitled Raggedy Ann stories, art by George Kerr. A cuckoo from a clock falls and lands on Quacky Doodles; The Raggedys fix the cuckoo, while Quacky, miffed because nobody is paying attention to him, goes outside into the meadow. Marcella takes her toys to the beach, but leaves them on the beach overnight. Raggedy Ann falls in a bucket of mop water and the bleach turns her completely white. When food runs low in the middle of winter, the Raggedys take Grampie and Granny Fieldmouse to Cookie Land, where there is an endless supply of sweets. Dr. Stork loses his spectacles and the Raggedys help him make his deliveries of babies. The toys have a pillow fight and a stray pillow knocks open the door to Dicky Bird's cage. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is Felix the Cat and the Haunted Castle, No. 46. Just a Little Squirt, art by Otto Mesmer. Felix the Cat and the Haunted Castle, art by Otto Mesmer; Felix enters a spooky mansion; Blue Betty, Cinderella, Little Bo Peep, Red Riding Hood, Magic Midgets, Beanstalk Jack, and Bruto guest-star. Felix has Spring Fever, art by Otto Mesmer. Reprinted from the Felix the Cat newspaper strip (King Features Syndicate, Inc.). 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "GENE AUTRY, No. 47." Cover art by Till Goodan. The Ghost Mine; Bill Drake has restarted the Ghost Canyon gold mine; He claims he bought it from Hank Nolan before he died, but Nolan's daughter Milly says he left the mine to her. Cowboy Lingo fact pages; definitions of cowboy slang terms. Renegade Ranch; Royal Rollins employs ex-cons from nearby Graystone Prison on his ranch. The Bandit of Dust Devil Gap; Anton Burke, a railroad official, calls on Gene for help in solving a series of train robberies that occur at night at a dusty pass. 60 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories by unknown. Art by Carl Barks and various. Featuring the tales "Porky of the Mounties" and "Porky and the Pirate," plus additional stories on the inside front and inside back covers, as well as the back cover. Starring Porky Pig, Petunia Pig, Bugs Bunny, Uncle Ham, Dauntless, Pierre (villain), Captain Blackheart, Captain Wimple (villain), Ratsy (villain), Sniffles, Beaky Buzzard and Cicero Pig! 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "WALT DISNEY'S SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS, No. 49." Cover art by Walt Kelly. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, script by Merrill de Maris, pencils by Hank Porter, inks by Bob Grant; Jealous Queen Grimhilde orders her huntsman to take beautiful Snow White to the forest and kill her, so that the Queen would be "the fairest one of all"; The huntsman can't do the deed and tells Snow White to flee through the forest; She finds the home of the Seven Dwarfs, who eventually accept her as one of the household. Untitled story; The Seven Dwarfs are lonesome after Snow White goes to live in the Prince's castle. She sends them a magic wishing lamp and they wish for someone to take Snow White's place so they won't be lonely. On cue, Dumbo is blown by a strong wind through the window. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "FAIRY TALE PARADE, No. 50." Cover art by Walt Kelly. The Magic Garden, art by Walt Kelly; Wee folk grow food in a garden but a witch tries to steal it all. The Nightingale, script by Hans Christian Andersen (original story), art by Arthur E. Jameson; The Emperor of China cages a beautifully singing nightingale. The Stolen Princess, art by George Kerr; A royal wedding amongst the wee folk is interrupted by an evil sorcerer. The Fourth Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor; Sinbad is married in the far east and when his wife dies, he is buried alive with her. The Brave Little Tailor, script by The Brothers Grimm (original story), art by Arthur E. Jameson; A brave tailor defeats giants and captures a unicorn in order to win half a kingdom. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "BUGS BUNNY FINDS THE LOST TREASURE, No. 51." Cover art by Carl Buettner. Bugs Bunny Finds the Lost Treasure, art by Carl Buettner; Bugs buys an old sea chest at an auction; In it is a sailor's diary is which he tells of the Zazztec treasure on Happy Pappy Island. A Statue Comes to Life, art by Carl Buettner; Bugs buys some powerful perfume; While visiting the museum he sprays a statue of Hercules, not knowing that a crook is impersonating the statue. Back cover Bugs Bunny strip by Tom McKimson. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE, No. 52." Untitled Little Orphan Annie stories, script and art by Harold Gray. Rose Chance's husband Ace steals money from his wife's business in order to gamble; In a high-stakes poker game Ace shoots a pro gambler and is arrested. Jack, who's secretly in love with Rose Chance, goes to great lengths to make sure that the man Ace Chance shot lives and that Ace will get good legal defense. Jack and Ace get into a brawl, which Jack wins; Ace goes to work as a manual laborer for Jack's trucking company. Bindle Al comes to talk to Jack. A truck axle falls on Ace's foot, smashing it; During his recovery, Jack makes him the bookkeeper and Ace has to fight temptation when dealing with cash. e is accused of theft when Jack's company's office is robbed; but Jack stands behind him and the real robber is picked up by the police. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "WASH TUBBS, No. 53." Cover art by Roy Crane. Untitled Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy stories, scripts and art by Roy Crane. Wash and Easy are sent by McKee Industries to the remote South Seas island of Hippa-Hula, to find out the secret of how the women there preserve their beauty. The ship makes its way to Hippa-Hula, where the mysterious Mr. Squeege demands they land at night. Wash and Easy try to find the secret of the island's women's beauty. After shooting Squeege, Ruby demands that Van Scamp get the Hippa-Hula beauty secret from his wife. Ruby gets the hotel proprietor to admit the beauty secret he sold them was a fake. Ruby and Van Scamp follow the disguised Wash and Easy before discovering they've been tricked. After being scared by a classmate, Fauntly Gilroy bets he can make any man in town run just as easily--even if the man is Captain Easy. Reprinted from from Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips 1939 and 1940. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "ANDY PANDA, No. 54." Cover art by Dan Gormley. The Ghostrider, art by Dan Gormley; Charlie and Andy take a vacation out West and end up in the rundown town of Grimy Gulch; When the Ghost Rider appears after a ten-year absence and robs the bank, Andy and Charlie are made deputies and trail him; They get lost and end up in a ghost town, where Miranda Panda and Wally Walrus are held captive by a gang of "ghosts." The Magic Hat, script by John Stanley, art by Dan Gormley; Andy and Charlie go into a magician's hat and find themselves in Hocus-Pocus Land, the place things go when magicians make them disappear. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "TILLIE THE TOILER, No. 55." Untitled Tillie the Toiler story, script and art possibly by Russ Westover; Tillie joins the WAACs. Reprinted from Tillie the Toiler (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strips, mostly from 1942-1943, with a few earlier strips. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "DICK TRACY, No. 56." Untitled Dick Tracy strips, scripts and art by Chester Gould. A girl with amnesia gets a job as a nightclub singer. Later she leads Tracy to the body of a man in a stream; Tracy confronts the dead man's business partner, but as he's questioning him, the partner is shot. The evidence points to Rudy Seaton as the killer of Fred Mason. Trohs has his gang grab Tracy and bring him to his hideout, where he crushes Tracy's right hand in a vise. Trohs uses the St. Bernard to escape from Tracy. Trosh decides to buy the tourist camp as a hideout. Reprinted from Dick Tracy (News-Tribune Syndicate) newspaper strips (1940?). 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is Gene Autry, Raiders of the Range, No. 57. Raiders of the Range starring Gene Autry, art by Till Goodan. Cowboy Lingo article. The Mystery of the Diamond-A, art by Till Goodan; Gene Autry investigates the mysterious horse stealing at the Diamond-A Ranch. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "SMILIN' JACK, No. 58." Untitled Smilin' Jack stories. Jack takes a job with Beaverduck family and has to contend with Beaverduck's screwball daughter, Joy, who is a terrible pilot. Jack continues to have problems with his rich, spoiled, scatter-brained girl boss, who keeps getting him into tough spots while he's flying her and her friends around. Joy's father puts Jack in charge of her aviation activities; Joy tries a little romance on Jack, but he spurns her because he's still in love with Dixie. The small-time hoodlum that Joy hired to make Jack lose his license does his job and frames Jack for buzzing airliners and flying drunk. After Jack spurns her advances, Joy decides to set a new altitude record for gliding. Scripts and art by Zack Mosley. Reprinted from Smilin' Jack (News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1940. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "MOTHER GOOSE AND NURSERY RHYME COMICS, No. 59." Cover art by Walt Kelly. Illustrated text rhymes featuring illustrations by Walt Kelly. Old Mother Goose. There Was a Crooked Man. Tom Twist; Acrobatic Tom Twist goes to sea and has adventures on a tropical island and in China before returning home. Little Miss Muffet. Sugar and Spice. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe. The Farmer in the Dell. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "TINY FOLKS FUNNIES, No. 60."Cover art by George Kerr. Chicken Little; Chicken Little gets hit on the head by an acorn and thinks the sky is falling. She tells all the other fowl and they go to tell the King. Teeny-Tiny; A tiny woman finds a tiny bone and takes it home to her tiny house. The Gingerbread Man; A gingerbread man comes to life and leads people on a merry chase before he is caught by a boy in a coaster wagon. The Little Red Hen; A hen asks for help in planting and harvesting wheat and baking the bread from the flour, but the other animals won't do any work. The Little Red Hen and the Bad Little Fox; The Little Black Fox goes to the Little Red Hen's house to catch her for dinner. The Cat and the Mouse; A cat bites a mouse's tail off. Little Red Riding Hood; The standard fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood, her grandmother, and the wolf. Art by George Kerr. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "SANTA CLAUS FUNNIES, No. 61." Cover art by Arthur E. Jameson. How Santa Got His Red Suit, script and art by Walt Kelly; Years ago, Santa did not always wear a red suit; One Christmas eve, Jack Frost steals his sleigh and toys and leaves Santa stranded; He finds refuge at a tiny house full of elves. The Night Before Christmas, script by Clement Clark Moore, art by Arthur E. Jameson; The poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas." Miracle in the Wildwood, script by Gaylord Du Bois, art by Arthur E. Jameson; Two quarrelsome knights divide the village of Benn in half; As time goes by the village falls away from the Christian religion and becomes a cruel, violent place. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.