Dell Comics was the comic book publishing arm of Dell Publications, which got its start in pulp magazines. It published comics from 1929 to 1973. At its peak, it was the most prominent American company in the medium. This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1973 calendar). ...

Its first title was The Funnies which was the first comic book to feature original material, but since it was published in the tabloid format as opposed to the standard one, it is normally not recognized as such. Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ...

The company formed a partnership in 1938 with Western Publishing, in which Dell would finance publications that Western would produce and distribute. While this diverged from the regular practice in the medium of one company handling finance and production and outsourcing distribution, it was a highly successful enterprise with titles selling in the millions. 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... This is a page about the company Western Publishing. ...

Dell Comics was best known for its licensed material, most notably the animated characters from Walt Disney Productions, Warner Brothers and Walter Lantz Studio. Carl Barks was the most noted talent associated with the company. Animation refers to the process in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result. ... Walt Disney Productions is the former name of The Walt Disney Company, which it held from 1929 to 1986. ... Warner Bros. ... Walter Lantz Studio was an American animation studio. ... Carl Barks in 1942 Carl Barks (March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000) was a famous Disney Studio illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck (1947), Gladstone Gander (1948), the Beagle Boys (1951) and Gyro Gearloose (1952). ...

From 1939 to 1962, Dell's most notable and prolific title was the anthology Four Color. Published several times a month, the title (which primarily featured standalone issues featuring various licensed properties) saw more than 1,300 issues published in its 23-year history. 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... One of the earlier issues of Four Color, featuring Walt Disneys Donald Duck. ...

The end of Four Color in 1962 coincided with the end of the partnership with Western, which took most of its licensed properties and its original material and created its own company, Gold Key Comics. Gold Key Comics was an imprint of Western Publishing. ...

Dell Comics lingered for another 11 years with licensed television and motion picture adaptations (including Mission: Impossible, Ben Casey, Burke's Law, Doctor Kildare) and a few poorly received original titles. Dell additionally attempted to do superhero titles, including Nukla, Fab 4, Brain Boy, and a critically-ridiculed trio of titles based on the Universal Pictures monsters Frankenstein, Dracula and Werewolf that recast the characters as superheroes. For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of... Mission: Impossible is the name of an American television series which aired on the CBS network from September 1966 to September 1973. ... Dr. Maggie Graham (Bettye Ackerman) and Vince Edwards as the title character Ben Casey was a medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. ... Burkes Law was a detective series which ran on ABC from 1963 to 1966, and then again on CBS from 1994 to 1995. ... Dr. James Kildare was the primary character in a series of American theatrical films in the late 1930s and early 1940s, an early 1950s radio series, and a 1960s television series of the same name. ... Nukla was a short-lived nuclear-powered superhero published by Dell Comics in the mid 1960s. ... Brain Boy was a short-lived superhero comic published by Dell Comics in the early 1960s. ... Frankenstein was a short-lived attempt by Dell Comics to published super-hero titles based on the Universal Pictures monsters. ... Dracula was a short-lived attempt by Dell Comics to published super-hero titles based on the Universal Pictures monsters. ... Werewolf was a short-lived attempt by Dell Comics to publish super-hero titles based on the Universal Pictures monsters. ...

Dell Comics finally ceased publication in 1973, with a few of its former titles moving to Gold Key. 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1973 calendar). ...

External links

• Dell Comics section at International Catalogue of Superheroes
• Toonopedia entry for Dell Comics
• What was the relationship between Dell Comics and Gold Key Comics?