Auctions: comic books published by Dell
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Item #60723230
Bullwinkle Mother Moose Nursery Pomes (1962) 207 FN- 5.5
Starts Apr 29 # on cover is 01-530-207. Rocky and Bullwinkle provide a skewed version of various rhymes, such as "Old Mother Hubbard," "Little Miss Muffet," "There Was a Crooked Man," and mothers. May-July 1962. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.
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Item #60810722
Published Sep 1959 by Dell/Gold Key.Daffy Duck (1956 Dell/Gold Key) 18 CGC 3.5
Paper: Cream to off white
Label #3700864025
Starts May 6 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #55263913
Fairy Tale Parade (1942-1944 Dell) 6 GD- 1.8
Three center wraps detached (adhered together in staple area with glue). Corner (margin) pieces torn from a few interior pages.
Starts Apr 29 Beauty and the Beast, art by Arthur Jameson. The Legend of the Stars, art by Walt Kelly; Bright and Glum are sprites in charge of day and night; Glum gets depressed and decides not to work anymore. The Gingerbread Man, pencils by Walt Kelly; The gingerbread man can outrun everyone, but can he outrun a wiley fox? The Frog Queen. The Wild Swans, art by Arthur E. Jameson. Saku, art by Bill Brady. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #60723231
Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 49 GD+ 2.5
Centerfold detached.
Starts Apr 29 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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Item #60653285
Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 106 CGC 6.5
Paper: Off white to white
Label #3930471014
Starts Apr 22 Stories and Art by Russ Westover. Reprints of Tillie the Toiler (King Features Syndicate, Inc.) newspaper strips from 1939 and 1940. Starring Tillie Jones, Mac MacDougall, Glenny Hodge and Mr. Simpkins! 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #60723232
Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 142 VG/FN 5.0
Starts Jul 6 Indicia title is "BUGS BUNNY AND THE HAUNTED MOUNTAINS, No. 142." Cover art by Tom McKimson. Bugs Bunny and the Haunted Mountains, art by Tom McKimson; Bugs goes to the mountains to escape the excitement of city life, but finds that the country has its own share of excitement. Road to Riches, art by Tom McKimson; Bugs must find a way to repay his $20 debt while being hounded by a collector from The-Forget-To-Pay-And-Regret-The-Day Debt Collection Company. Bugs Bunny, the Fearless, art by Roger Armstrong; Bugs must find something he's afraid of to prove he's normal, and suitable to inherit $500,000 from his Uncle Jack Rabbit. Bugs Bunny and Man-O-Battle, art by Don Gunn; Bugs must ride Man-O-Battle to victory to win over Colonel Bunny, the father of Magnolia Bunny. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #60723233
Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 157 VG+ 4.5
Starts Apr 29 Indicia title is "Walt Disney's MICKEY MOUSE AND THE BEANSTALK, No. 157." Cover art by Don Gunn. Mickey and the Beanstalk, art by Harvey Eisenberg; Famine strikes Happy Valley when the Golden Harp is stolen; After Mickey trades his cow for some magic beans, a giant beanstalk grows into the sky, taking Mickey, Goofy, and Donald's house with it; In the land in the sky, the three go to the giant's castle and rescue the Golden Harp; Adapted from Mickey and the Beanstalk in the animated feature Fun and Fancy Free (1947). Pluto Keeps It Quiet, art by Harvey Eisenberg; Mickey gets a job as a night watchman and Pluto tries to keep the house completely quiet when Mickey sleeps during the day. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #60723234
Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 164 VG- 3.5
Starts Apr 29 Indicia title is "BUGS BUNNY FINDS THE FROZEN KINGDOM, No. 164." Cover art by Carl Buettner. Bugs Bunny Finds the Frozen Kingdom, art by Tom McKimson; A conman sends Bugs and Porky to a random place in Alaska after they promise to give him a third of the gold they find; When their plane runs out of gas in a snow-covered wasteland they decide to walk for help; A snowslide uncovers a cave filled with gold pillars. Bugs Bunny and the Magic Perfume, art by Tom McKimson; Bugs buys some cheap perfume to get on the good side of Mrs. Glutz, the grocer's wife; It turns out that the bottles of perfume Bugs bought are experimental gases that were accidentally sent from the perfume factory. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #60741846
Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 178 CGC 4.0
Paper: Off white
Small piece out of the margin of pages 9-16.
Label #1229263005
Starts Jul 6 Indicia title is "Walt Disney's DONALD DUCK, No. 178. Cover art by Dan Gormley. Christmas on Bear Mountain, script and art by Carl Barks; Donald's stingy old Uncle Scrooge McDuck lets the ducks use his mountain cabin for the Christmas holidays, planning to test Donald's bravery by coming to the cabin disguised as a bear; However, two real bears--a mother and her cub--turn up at the cabin soon after the ducks' arrival. Santa Claus Land, art by Don Gunn; Mickey and Goofy are working at Santa's Workshop at the North Pole; Doc and Grumpy of the Seven Dwarfs and Dumbo are also working there; Goofy is made custodian of Santa's reindeer, where he discovers that Prancer has been stolen by Willie the Giant. Two one-page Barks strips. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #60723235
Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 214 VG- 3.5
Page tears at centerfold staples.
Starts Apr 29 Indicia title is Walt Disney's MICKEY MOUSE and his SKY ADVENTURE, No. 214. Cover art by Jim Pabian. Mickey Mouse and His Sky Adventure, script by Floyd Gottfredson and Ted Osborne, art by Bill Wright; Mickey and Goofy discover Doctor Einmug's laboratory floating in a cloud high in the sky; Black Pete tries to force the Doctor to give him the formula for the anti-gravity force that keeps the operation aloft. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #60723236
Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 308 VG/FN 5.0
Starts Apr 29 Cover art possibly by Carl Buettner. Dangerous Disguise, script and art by Carl Barks; The ducks intercept a message to Madame Triple-X, a beautiful spy, and try to beat her to Chiliburgeria, where she is to deliver the plans for a stolen American bomb to another secret agent; in Chiliburgeria, after a hectic train ride, Donald impersonates the other agent, a bullfighter named Donaldo el Quacko. The Little Stranger starring Donald Duck, art by Frank McSavage. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #60810724
Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 328 CGC 0.5
Paper: White
Centerfold Missing, Affects Story. Incomplete
Label #3850190009
Starts May 6 Cover art by Carl Buettner. Donald Duck in Old California!, script and art by Carl Barks; The ducks, injured in a car wreck in Southern California, are transported by means of a mysterious dream to the California of 1848; While there they stay at the home of a wealthy Spanish rancher, take part in the gold rush, and help a young vaquero win the hand of a rancher's daughter. Grandma's Visit starring Donald Duck, script by Don Christensen, art by Bob Moore. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #60767627
Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 331 CGC 4.5
Paper: Off white to white
Label #4270345013
Starts Apr 29 Written by Lewis Carroll (novel) and Del Connell (adaptation). Art by Riley Thompson and Bob Grant. Wraparound painted cover by Bob Grant. Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland. Starring Alice in Wonderland, Dinah, The White Rabbit, Tweedledee, Tweedledum, Dodo, Mad Hatter, Cheshire Cat, March Hare, Walrus, Carpenter, Caterpillar and the Queen! 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #60428317
Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 723A CGC 6.0 Ad Back Cover
Paper: White
Label #4363427003
Starts Apr 29 Version with ad on back cover. Indicia title is "SANTIAGO, No. 723. Cover photo of " Cal "Cash" Adams (as played by Alan Ladd). Intro with photos of Cal "Cash" Adams (as played by Alan Ladd), Clay Pike (as played by Lloyd Nolan), and Doña Isabella (as played by Roassana Podesta). Santiago, art by Everett Raymond Kinstler; In 1898, a court-martialed Army captain turned gun-runner has to share an old riverboat with a blood-thirsty rival gang as they take guns from Florida to Cuba to supply the rebel army. Adapted from the 1956 movie "Santiago." 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #60723237
Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 740A VG+ 4.5
Starts Apr 29 Version with ad on back cover. Indicia title is "Walter Lantz CHILLY WILLY, No. 740." How to Draw Chilly Willy activity page. The Grounded Penguin, art by Fred Abranz; Chilly meets a pelican. Texas Bound, art by Fred Abranz; Chilly receives a package that he ordered: a horse! The Cold Crop, art by Fred Abranz; Chilly's new garden is threatened by the arrival of two gophers. The Big Catch, art by Frank McSavage; Chilly does some deep sea diving. The Hot Idea, art by Frank McSavage; Chilly decides to open a resort and call it Chilly Willy's Hot Springs. "Happy Cereal" Trix ad on back cover. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #60723238
Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 790-15CENT GD- 1.8
2.5" Tear in cover.
Starts Apr 29 15¢ Edition. Indicia title is "THE WINGS OF EAGLES, No. 790." Photo cover of Frank "Spig" Wead (as played by John Wayne). Preview of the story with four photos and partial cast list. The Wings of Eagles, pencils by Alex Toth; The life story of Frank "Spig" Wead, a pioneer in Naval aviation, who, after an accident grounded him, became a screenwriter in Hollywood; During World War II, Wead rejoined the Navy and designed a supply link to provide reserve aircraft to large carriers during battles. Adapted from the 1957 M-G-M movie "The Wings of Eagles." The character John Dodge is a fictionalized version of movie director John Ford. Description of the first aircraft to take-off from the deck of a ship--in 1910. Description of the first landing of an aircraft on a ship. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.15.
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Item #60360368
Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 1049 CBCS 7.5
Paper: Off white to white
Label #23-40B95C4-001
Starts Jun 10 Indicia title is "DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP, No. 1049." Adapted from the 1959 movie "Don't Give Up the Ship." Photo cover of John Paul Steckler VII (as played by Jerry Lewis). Preview with photos. Don't Give Up The Ship, script by Eric Freiwald and Robert Schaefer, art by Dan Spiegle; When the Navy asks for appropriations, Congressman Mandeville demands to know the whereabouts of an unaccounted-for destroyer escort, the USS Kornblatt from World War II, as an excuse to deny funding; Vice-Admiral P. T. Bludde sends for Lt. John Paul Steckler, who was the man who last signed off on the ship; Steckler, a bumbler, was the lowest ranking officer left when the ship left Pearl Harbor and he managed to run the ship on a reef near an island; Steckler goes ashore, only to find it occupied by Japanese soldiers who don't know the war is over; His crew thinks he's dead and sails to San Diego. A quiz to match illustrated words with their meaning in Naval slang. Silhouettes of various types of Navy ships on back cover. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #60591387
Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 1102A VG+ 4.5
Starts Apr 22 Version with ad on back cover. Indicia title is "WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE, No. 1102." Based on the "Wanted: Dead or Alive!" TV series. Photo cover of Josh Randall (as played by Steve McQueen). Payment Delayed, art by Albert Micale; A bank robber disappears after robbing a bank of $9,000 and killing the cashier and bank president; A year later, Josh Randall tries to pick up his trail. Bounty Hunters of the Sierra article. Badman In Blue, art by Albert Micale; Josh Randall trails a wanted killer and finds him riding with the cavalry, disguised as a trooper. The Man Hunt, art by Albert Micale; The process of how the bounty system developed. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #60743506
King of the Royal Mounted Large Feature Comic (1940) 9 GD/VG 3.0
Cover and centerfold loose at one staple. Cover and interior oxidation. Staple rust.
Starts Apr 29 Copyright notice inside book is dated 1937-38, but the comic was actually published in 1940. Reprints Zane Grey's King of the Royal Mounted newspaper comic strips in black-and-white with color covers. 8-3/5-in. x 11-1/4-in. 76 pages counting covers. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #55263969
Smokey Stover National Fire Protection Giveaway (1953) 2 FN 6.0
Miscut.
Starts Apr 29 Smokey Stover by Bill Holman #2, published by the National Fire Protection Association in 1954. Standard comic book dimensions, 16-pages, full color, back cover blank, no cover price or publication. Copyright 1954.
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Item #55263972
Tags: Anthology / CollectionSuper Comics (1938-1949 Western/Dell) 67 FN- 5.5
Cover oxidation.
Starts Jul 6 Stories by Chester Gould, Herc Ficklen, Dale Messick, Bob Jenney, Martin Branner, Frank Willard, Walter Berndt, George Clark, Carl Ed, Stanley Link, Jim Chambers, and Harold Gray. Strips include Dick Tracy, You're in the Army Now, Brenda Starr, 'Cloudy' Williams, Winnie Winkle, Moon Mullins, Smitty, Our Neighbors the Ripples, Harold Teen, Tiny Tim, Clyde Beatty, and Little Orphan Annie. 60 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #60564109
Tales from the Tomb (1962 Dell) 1 GD- 1.8
4" cumulative spine split.
Starts Apr 22 Painted cover by John Schoenherr. Stories and art by John Stanley, Frank Springer, and Tony Tallarico. Tales of horror and the macabre from Dell. In a truly weird story, a drifter stays a nice old lady's rooming house, only to learn the horrifying secret of "Mr. Green." Painter Randy tells Betty the strange story of the mysterious tree stump and its curse. A man has an elaborate plan to convince his wife to divorce him, but first he needs an actor half his size who looks just like him. Some stories are by Little Lulu legend John Stanley (!). Know Thyself…; Mr. Green Must Be Fed; Still Life; Turnabout; Oh, How We Danced; R.I.P and I.M.A.; Two for the Price of One; Crazy Quilt; The Cat That Was Part of the Night; The Long Way; Goblins Ball; The Mudman; Asphalt Test; The Interview. 84 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.25.
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Item #60743510
Tillie the Toiler Large Feature Comic (1941) 30 GD/VG 3.0
3" Cumulative spine split. Water damage. Cover oxidation.
Starts Apr 29 Large Feature Comic: Tillie the Toiler (1941). This comic was published by Dell Publishing Co. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #59304951
Published Jun 1978 by Dell/Gold Key/Whitman.Uncle Scrooge (1954-2008 Dell/Gold Key/Gladstone/Gemstone) 153 CBCS 8.5
Paper: Off white to white
Label #23-1C18776-010
Starts Jun 10 Uncle Scrooge in "A Case of Too Many Sea Monsters," a reprint from issue number 49, "Let Donald Do It," a reprint from issue number 51, and "The Invisible Intruder," a Carl Barks reprint from issue number 44. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.35.
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Item #59368642
Published Aug 1979 by Dell/Gold Key/Whitman.Uncle Scrooge (1954-2008 Dell/Gold Key/Gladstone/Gemstone) 167 CBCS 9.2
Paper: White
Label #23-1C18776-012
Starts Jun 10 Cover pencils by Tony Strobl. Bye-Bye, Money Bin starring Uncle Scrooge, Donald Duck, Huey, Dewey and Louie, and Beagle Boys, script by Vic Lockman, pencils by Tony Strobl, inks by Steve Steere. Outfoxed Fox starring Uncle Scrooge, Donald Duck, and Huey, Dewey and Louie, script and art by Carl Barks. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.40.
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Item #57033142
Published Jul 1987 by Dell/Gold Key/Whitman.Uncle Scrooge (1954-2008 Dell/Gold Key/Gladstone/Gemstone) 219 CGC 9.8
Paper: White
Label #1618407026
Starts Jul 6 Cover art by Don Rosa. The Son of the Sun starring Uncle Scrooge, Donald Duck, Huey, Dewey and Louie, and Flintheart Glomgold, script and art by Don Rosa. Portrait of the Artist as a Duck Man text article, script by Geoffrey Blum, art by Don Rosa. A Taxing Effort starring Donald Duck and Ludwig Von Drake, script by Bob Foster, art by Frank Smith. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.95.
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Item #60617212
Tags: Disney Ducks & MicePublished Sep 1942 by Dell/Gold Key.Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (1940 Dell/Gold Key/Gladstone) 24 GD+ 2.5
Lateral spine tear.
Starts Apr 22 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #60617214
Tags: Disney Ducks & MicePublished Jan 1943 by Dell/Gold Key.Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (1940 Dell/Gold Key/Gladstone) 28 GD+ 2.5
Tape on interior cover under staples. Water damage.
Starts Apr 22 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #60617215
Tags: Disney Ducks & MicePublished Aug 1944 by Dell/Gold Key.Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (1940 Dell/Gold Key/Gladstone) 47 PR 0.5
Interior is complete. Full length spine split, back cover missing.
Starts Apr 22 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.