Four color comic books

This website remains a continued tribute to his efforts at making sure that those who helped create our favorite four color medium are given the credit that they richly deserve. Christopher irving is raising funds for four color. A long running series putting out 1,379 issues by dell comics. Roy rogers comic books sold more than 25 million copies each year, and his newspaper comic strip reached more than 65 million readers each week. All portions of the grand comics database, except where noted otherwise, are ed by the gcd and are licensed under a creative commons attributionsharealike 4. List of lone ranger comic book series lone ranger wiki fandom. Four color, also known as four color comics and one shots, was a long running american comic book anthology series published by dell comics between. Old comic books vintage comic books vintage comics comic book artists comic book covers comic book characters 90s cartoons disney cartoons cartoon painting. Most issues of four color comics are displayed on our website by the name of the character featured in the comic. Messala returns to jerusalem to become commander of the roman legion there. Four color fantasies winchester, virginia facebook.

While often dismissed as escapist entertainment, these pulp treasures also provide a fascinating lens through which to view our nations past, present and potential future. In this interactive presentation, journalist and educator t. The series also inspired numerous comic books, two movie serials, books, and a live action television series starring clayton moore as the lone ranger. Benhur, script by lew wallace original story, and eric freiwald and robert schaefer comic adaptation, art by russ manning. Starring popeye, olive oyl, wimpy, the jeep, sea hag, sweepea, the goon and poopdeck pappy. This edition covers the dell four color comic books and several comic strip reprints from the late 40s to mid 50s. Four color fantasies offers visitors an indepth journey through the history of comics, and includes items from all genres, publishers and eras from the platinum age to the present. Four color aka four color comics was a prolific us anthology series from dell comics. List of lone ranger comic book series lone ranger wiki. Don and maggie thompson compiled a complete list of the dell four color comics and published it as a supplement to their comic art fanzine entitled a listing of dell special series comic books and a few others. Four color comic read four color comic online in high.

Seventh four color issue to feature the character zorro. During its decadeslong run, it featured dozens of comic icons including uncle scrooge, prince valiant, bozo the clown, bugs bunny, tarzan, flash gordon, and countless others. Four color comics or just four color is a series that ran from 1942 and ended in 1962. To tour the exhibit, visit the hollings library, located at 22 greene st. Years later we have grown to one of the best pop culture nexus in southern california. The evolution of colour in american comic books by robert lupton for many young americans, the colourful world of the superhero comic provides relief from the grey world of school, homework, and chores.

Forgotten horror comics of the 1950s 9781606993439. Established in 1992, four color comics has a great selection of vintage comic books, movie posters, trading cards, memorabilia, pulps, original comic art, toys, games and more. He accidentally wins a gokart race, then with mickeys help sets up a cross country kart race. During the same time period of the missing dell four color comics, dell began. Four color comic read four color comic online in high quality.

Established in 1992, four color comics has a great selection of vintage comic books, movie posters, trading cards, memorabilia, pulps, original comic art, toys. If the golden age of comic books and the silver age of comic books were the childhood of super heroes, the bronze age of comic books was their adolescence, and the dark age of comic books was their angstridden teenage years, then the modern age of comic books is surely the college years. A brief look at dell comics four color, a comic book that was published from 1942 to 1962, with a total of over 0 issues. Four color world the evolution of colour in american comic.

Four color is a series of various comic strips published between 1939 and 1942 over 25 issues. Ec is the comic book company most fans associate with horror. Four color fantasies 80 weems ln, winchester, virginia 22601 rated 4. Post your four color comic covers here page 148 golden.

There have been numerous comic book adaptations of the lone rangers adventures. Four color comics or just four color is a series that ran from 1942. Degree of difficultyfour colors while there are tough books to find in the four color series at virtually every point in the collection, it was my experience that the 500s were the very toughest. Donald duck had appeared in all of the first twentyfive. Columbia, sc 29208 any time monday friday between the hours of 8. Values of davy crockett fourcolor free comic book values. Find the value of the dell comic davy crockett four color volume 1. Dick tracy golden age comics 19381955 for sale ebay. Since their debut in the 1930s, comic books have been a regular part of our popculture landscape. The inland empires best comic book shop located in rancho cucamonga, 4 color fantasies opened in 2006 with the belief that customer service was the number one thing that was needed in the comic book industry. Four color holds the current record for the most issues produced by any us comic book, with detective comics and action comics being runners up. In addition the series would often publish adaptations of recent theatical releases as well as television shows.

It ran from 1939 to 1962, with over 1,000 issues being published often several different ones a mounth. Zorro began appearing in comic books back in 1949, well in advance of the disney version of the legend. Starring don winslow, doctor centaur and the dwarf. The evolution of colour in american comic books by robert lupton. Four color 19421962 dell series 2 comic books mycomicshop. Adapted from the 1957 walt disney film perri, which was based on felix saltens 1938 novel.

Initially, the series was a try out magazine that featured four color comics characters not all of which were owned by disney who did not yet have their own titles. What is your davy crockett four color comic book worth. Four color separation refers to the traditional printing process for comics and comic books, where images would be broken down. Dell four color comics series 2 340 vintage rare comic books on disk dell. The title is a reference to the four basic colors used when printing comic books cyan, magenta, yellow and black at the time. Featuring don winslow of the navy comic strip reprints from 19361938. Featuring the tales presenting senior zorro and zorros secret passage, plus the 1page story along zorros trail drawn by russ manning travelogue of several oldspanish sites that have survived into modern california and. We have amazing deals on hardtofind comic books from the 1930s to today.

Contentsshow dell comics four color the lone ranger 145 issues, 19451962 vol. This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format. Sadowski, greg, benson, john, diamond comic distributors inc books. The comic book history trading card set on kickstarter. Published weekly from 1941 until 1962, dells four color comics had more issues published than any other american comicsome 54 in all. Post your four color comic covers here golden age comic. This website remains a continued tribute to his efforts at making sure that those who helped create our favorite fourcolor medium are given the credit that they richly deserve. Four color comics disney comic book collector wiki fandom. This is a list of the various publishers and series. Don jose builds a hacienda on a mesa and tries to use his band of bandits to force little joe and his. Four color comics comic read four color comics comic online.

Our podcast and blog cover the universe of comic strips and comic books. After eight issues had been published as part of the fourcolor comics series by dell, the success of the disney television series led to a revamping of the comics. Goofy and his goofkart, script by vic lockman, pencils by tony strobl, inks by john liggera. The most common strip featured in this run of the series, sometimes called four color series i, was dick tracy who appeared in four issues. Fourcolor process and mid20 th century comic art have gone their separate ways one travelling as a computerassisted simulation of archaic print culture and the other as computerassisted art books, featuring crisp black lines, bleedfree white paper, and reconstructions of the original colorists designs. As with many early disney comics titles, donald duck began as individual issues of dell comics four color oneshots series. Four color, also known as four color comics and one shots, was an american comic book anthology series published by dell comics. Comic book characters are traditionally colorful, but those who pay special attention will note that its not all random palettes.

On november 23, 2006, the father of comic book fandom and creator of this database, jerry bails, passed away in his sleep. Until 1968, a complete list of the dell four color titles remained elusive. Shopify hosts the online comic book store of sell my comic books. Donald duck is an american disney comic book series starring the character donald duck and published by various publishers from october 1942 to june 2017. It is known that the series had well over 1,000 issues, but the precise number of original issues has not. The series was often used by dell to test out their various properties, many of wich would go on to receive their own titles.

Four color separation refers to the traditional printing process for comics and comic books, where images would be broken down into four different colors cyan, magenta, yellow and black, abbreviated as cmyk, and dots of each color would be separately printed onto the page. Goofy builds his own gokart out of an overstuffed chair, a lawn mower, and other assorted parts from his backyard. There are no stakes in privileging one comic book reproduction format over. The modern age of comic books useful notes tv tropes. The four color trading card set will document as many public domain comic book characters from the 1930s through 1960s as possible. Four color separation comics, comic books, their origins. Four color world the evolution of colour in american. Get the best deals on dick tracy golden age comics 1938 1955. Four color, also known as four color comics and one shots, was a longrunning american comic book anthology series published by dell comics between. Four color, also known as four color comics and one shots, was an american comic book anthology series published by dell comics between 1939 and 1962. Values of davy crockett fourcolor comicspriceguide.

In the december 1996 issue of comic book marketplace, duane dimock claimed to have located the missing dell four color comics. Dec 08, 2006 degree of difficulty four colors while there are tough books to find in the four color series at virtually every point in the collection, it was my experience that the 500s were the very toughest. How many years do you think it will take to get one image of each four color comic from the first and second series posted in this thread. Four color comics comic read four color comics comic. We have 467 books to download or read online the latest is 0968 tales of wells fargo. Featuring popeye reprints from thimble theatre newspaper strips king features syndicate, inc. In the genres peak period 19511954, before it almost destroyed the comics industry, before the watchdog groups and congress, over fifty horror titles appeared each month, and four color fear collects the finest of these into a single robust and affordable volume.