Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) comic books 1949

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Indicia title is HAROLD TEEN, No. 209. Untitled Harold Teen story; Harold's rich grandfather comes to visit and becomes the object of affection for gold-digger Veronica Vale (and Veronica's mother!); Meanwhile Grandpa is torn between his attraction to Veronica and that of an old flame, Pruny Lovewell. Reprinted from Harold Teen (Chicago Tribune Syndicate) daily newspaper strips from 1941. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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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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Indicia title is Walter Lantz ANDY PANDA and the POLICE PUP, No. 216. Cover art by Dan Gormley. Andy Panda and the Police Pup, art by Dan Gormley; Andy and Charlie buy a pup that they name Presto; He's part police dog and saves the day when Andy and Charlie get caught by a brutal bank robber named Sticky Fingers. Tightrope Walker back cover strip, art by Dan Gormley; Andy tries to be a tightrope walker, but Charlie tries to get into the act and causes problems. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is BUGS BUNNY in COURT JESTER, No. 217. Cover art by Ralph Heimdahl. Court Jester, art by Ralph Heimdahl; Bugs is hired as a court jester in a castle; He makes friends with the princess, but is thrown in the dungeon when he fails to make the king laugh; The princess rescues him from the dungeon, but Bugs is captured by mistake by two giants in the employ of an evil duke. Out on a Limb back cover strip, art by Don Gunn. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is Walt Disney's 3 LITTLE PIGS and THE WONDERFUL MAGIC LAMP, No. 218. The Three Little Pigs and The Wonderful Magic Lamp, script by Chase Craig, art by Tony Strobl; The Big Bad Wolf uses a witch's potion to make Practical Pig dumb and naive. The Mounties, script by Chase Craig, art by Gil Turner; The Three Little Pigs join the Mounties and their first mission is to bring in the Big Bad Wolf. Bee-sieged, art by Don Gunn; Practical tells his brothers not to go near an old stump with a beehive inside, knowing the pair will disobey his warning. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "UNCLE WIGGLY, No. 221." Untitled Uncle Wiggily stories, scripts by Roger Garis, art by Francis Kirn; Uncle Wiggily is trapped by the Bad Chaps on his way home from buying a new dishpan for Nurse Jane. Wiggily sets up a decoy target for the Bad Chaps to throw snowballs at while he goes for the police. Wiggily practices acrobatics to defeat the Pipsesewah and the Skeezicks. Uncle Wiggily tries to help his dog friend Sport, who's depressed because his tail is too short. Butch Bear tries to steal Bunty's candy, but gets his nose stuck to the pan. Shaggy Wolf steals one of Nurse Jane's dresses to make a trap to catch Uncle Wiggly. Uncle Wiggily and Uncle Butter have a sled race. Reprinted from Uncle Wiggily (Bell Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1947 and 1948. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "Walt Disney's DONALD DUCK in "LOST IN THE ANDES", No. 223." Cover art by Carl Barks. Lost in the Andes, script and art by Carl Barks; Donald, a museum janitor, discovers that some "blocks" from Inca ruins are actually square eggs; When the other members of a scientific expedition fall ill, Donald and the nephews press on alone deep into the Andes; There they find a strange race of people who speak with Southern accents and live on the square eggs. Too Fit to Fit one-page story; Donald exercises so that he can fit into his tuxedo again. Tunnel Vision one-page strip; Donald ends the nephews' fighting over the television. Sleepy Sitters; Donald helps the nephews to baby-sit by singing a lullaby. Art by Carl Barks. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "Walter Lantz OSWALD THE RABBIT, No. 225." Cover art by Dan Gormley. Spring Fever, pencils possibly by Lloyd White, inks by Suzanne Seaborne; Oswald has a crush on the new neighbor, Rosabelle; Floyd and Lloyd don't care for this development, so they get Toby to trick Oswald into taking an ocean cruise; Toby gets off the ship, but the twins don't and are chased by the crew for being stowaways. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "PORKY PIG and SPOOFY, THE SPOOK, No. 226." Porky Pig and Spoofy, the Spook, art by Roger Armstrong; Porky's rich Uncle Ham writes that he is sending Porky a "baby spook"; Porky decides to rent a haunted house to make the spook feel at home; Widget the midget, an escaped convict, reads about Porky in the newspaper; He disguises himself as a ghost and pretends to be the "spook" that Uncle Ham sent. The Roast Gip Recipe, art by Roger Armstrong; Porky is working for the Peachy Keeny Cookbook Company and is sent to the remote island of Pogo-Togo to find the secret recipe for "Roast Gip." Uncle Bacon Comes to Dinner one-page story, art by Gil Turner; Uncle Bacon, the sword swallower, comes to Porky's house for dinner. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "Walt Disney's SEVEN DWARFS, No. 227." Cover art by Carl Buettner. The Seven Dwarfs and the Pirate, art by Tony Strobl; Yellow-Beak the parrot comes to the Dwarfs' house with a map of buried pirate treasure and convinces the Dwarfs to help him find it. The Dwarfs and Yellow-Beak set sail on a ship, but the Witch changes herself into a rat to hitch a ride to the isle where the treasure is buried. The Seven Dwarfs and Humpty Dumpty, script and art by Roger Armstrong; Humpty Dumpty's brother Gumpty falls for a trick contest and is captured by the Giant, who wants him for an omelet; Doc and Dopey come up with a plan to rescue him. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "Zane Grey's SUNSET PASS, No. 230." Painted cover art possibly by Morris Gollub. Sunset Pass, art by Harry Parkhurst [as Harry Parks]; After several years away, Trueman Rock returns to the town of Wagontongue, only to find that things have changed since he was gone; He becomes infatuated with Thiry Preston, only to infuriate Thiry's brother Ash; Rock gets a job at the Preston ranch, where he has to deal with the brutal and mentally unstable Ash and uncover the mysterious secret of the Preston operation. Adapted from the 1931 story "Sunset Pass" by Zane Grey. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "Walt Disney's MICKEY MOUSE and THE RAJAH'S TREASURE, No. 231." Cover art by Bill Wright. Mickey Mouse and the Rajah's Treasure, script and art by Bill Wright; Mickey is on his first day as the driver of an armored car; His first job is to move the Rajah's Treasure, a priceless collection of jewels; The Rajah's "trusted aide" turns out to be a crook who forces Mickey to drive to a remote location with the jewels; The crook and his boss plant a story that Mickey has disappeared with the jewels to put the blame on him; Minnie is also suspected. She leaves town and ends up caught by the crook and tied up with Mickey; The crook tries to escape with the treasure in Minnie's car, but Mickey and Minnie escape from the ropes and chase the crook in the armored car. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "BUGS BUNNY, SLEEPWALKING SLEUTH, No. 233." Cover art by Ralph Heimdahl. Bugs Bunny, Sleepwalking Sleuth, art by Don Gunn; After hitting his head, Bugs loses his memory; Finding a wallet nearby, he assumes the identity of Herbert Q. Strongheart of the F.B.I.; While walking in his sleep, Bugs routs a gang of bandits. Bugs Bunny in the Foreign Legion, art by Tony Strobl; Elmer joins the Foreign Legion to get away from Bugs. Easy Money, art by Roger Armstrong; To earn a $10 recruiting bonus, Bugs tries to get Elmer to sign up to work in the Sapperian salt mines. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "Walt Disney's DUMBO in SKY VOYAGE, No. 234." Cover art by Carl Buettner. Sky Voyage, art by Tony Strobl; Two elephant boys trick Dumbo into believing he has broken a chunk out of the moon; He flies through space to repair it, but is hooked by Wynken, Blynken, and Nod in their flying shoe. Dumbo and Little Pedro, art by Gil Turner; Pedro the mail plane runs out of gas; Dumbo takes the mail and is warned to watch out for the witch who is always trying to rob the mail planes. Dumbo the Musician, art by Don Gunn; Dumbo decides he wants to play the trumpet; When he goes to the Three Pigs' house his playing is so bad the pigs think he is the Big Bad Wolf in disguise. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "Walt Disney's DONALD DUCK in VOODOO HOODOO, No. 238." Cover art by Carl Barks. Voodoo Hoodoo, script and art by Carl Barks; A zombie gives Donald a poisoned doll that was intended for Uncle Scrooge, who looked like Donald when the doll was given to the Zombie some seventy years before; Donald--followed by the nephews and "Bombie the Zombie"--goes to Africa to persuade the witch doctor Foola Zoola to give him the antidote for the poison, which is supposed to shrink its victims to the size of a rat. 3 one-page Barks strips. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "Walter Lantz ANDY PANDA, No. 240." Cover art by Dan Gormley. Deep-Sea Trouble, pencils by Dick Hall, inks by Anahid Dinkjian; Andy inherits a boat from his uncle; He and Charlie decide to go into the deep-sea fishing business; They hire an old salt named Captain Davy to help them run the boat; Three crooks hire the boat, then when it's out to sea, hijack it to go to their South Seas island hideout. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "PORKY PIG, MIGHTY HUNTER, No. 241." Cover art by Ralph Heimdahl. Porky Pig, Mighty Hunter, pencils by Roger Armstrong, inks by Kaem Wong; Porky tells Cicero a story of their Pilgrim ancestors, who go hunting for turkeys and have to escape from an Indian. Circus Performer, art by Gil Turner; Elmer and Porky decide to put on a circus; After selling tickets they find that each thought the other was going to do the stunts; The pair hurry through a practice performance to try to get ready for the show. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "Walt Disney's THUMPER FOLLOWS his NOSE, No. 243." Cover art by Carl Buettner. Thumper Follows His Nose, art by Jim Pabian; Thumper finds the Three Bears' house and tussles with his conscience about eating the porridge; He leaves the house but runs into the Big Bad Wolf. The Li'l Giant, art by Tony Strobl; Thumper is depressed when he's told he's just a little bunny; Later he learns that size is relative, when he meets Wiggly Worm, to whom Thumper is a giant. Thumper Is a Hero, art by Tony Strobl; When lumbermen and hunters threaten the forest, Thumper decides he has to do something; He puts out a fire left by careless hunters and as a reward the forest rangers declare the area a forest preserve. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "Walter Lantz WOODY WOODPECKER, No. 249." The Globe Trotter, art by Dick Hall; Woody accidentally gets dumped in the cargo hold of a freighter bound for England; He meets up with Slippery Rhodes, a stowaway, but they are discovered and have to work for the rest of the voyage; They jump ship, but end up being picked up by a ship headed for Turkey; That ship turns out to be running guns to a rebel army and it in turn is boarded by forces of Aga Bonami; Woody, Slippery, and the Captain are taken to a slave market (in a country identified as Turkey or Arabia) and sold as slaves; Woody and Slippery eventually escape and find a U.S. destroyer in port, which takes them back to the U.S.A. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "Walt Disney's PINOCCHIO, No. 252." Underwater Birthday Party one-page story, art by Tony Strobl. Pinocchio; Geppetto wishes his puppet was a real boy; The "Wishing Star Fairy" grants his wish; On his way to school, Pinocchio is tricked by J. Worthington Foul fellow and Gideon into joining Stromboli's puppet show; The fairy rescues Pinocchio, but Foulfellow talks Pinocchio into taking a trip to Pleasure Island with other boys; At Pleasure Island the boys are turned into donkeys for the mines. New version of Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #92. Adapted from the 1940 Disney animated movie "Pinocchio." Watermelon Dreams back cover strip, art by Tony Strobl. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "SANTA CLAUS FUNNIES, No. 254." Santa's First Helper, script and art by Walt Kelly; Puggy Pink, a dwarf, volunteers to be Santa's first helper in making toys; Santa leaves him at a little girl's house to be a temporary fill-in for the doll that isn't ready at Christmas. A Visit from Saint Nicholas, script by Clement Moore, art by Arthur E. Jameson; Illustrated version of the 1823 poem by Clement Clarke Moore, sometimes titled "The Night Before Christmas." The Land Without Christmas, script and art by Frank Jupo; Santa uses a rocket to take a test trip to a distant star and a land ruled by the bad-humored King Pepy. Albert and Pogo's Christmas, script and art by Walt Kelly; Albert dresses up to play Santa Claus for the swamp's children. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "Walter Lantz ANDY PANDA and the BALLOON RACE, No. 258." Cover pencils by Dick Hall. Andy Panda and The Balloon Race, pencils by Dick Hall, inks by Anahid Dinkjian; A hot air balloon lands in Andy's back yard; In its basket is Professor Gaas Bag, who has been hit over the head by his rivals in a championship long-distance balloon race; He is unable to continue, so he lets Andy and Charlie take his balloon to finish the race. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "PORKY PIG, HERO OF THE WILD WEST, No. 260." Porky Pig, Hero of the Wild West, pencils by Fred Abranz; While on a vacation at a ranch, Petunia nags Porky about not being a he-man; Petunia is abducted by The Krisco Kid, who looks like Porky, except with a pointed black moustache. Porky Pig, Truant Officer, art by Tony Strobl; Porky is truant officer; Cicero and his friend are out fishing, thinking it is Saturday, and Porky disguises himself as an (Asian) Indian prince in order to try to capture them. The Greedy Squirrels, art by Jim Pabian; Petunia sends Porky to the forest in a rainstorm to gather some nuts for the fudge she is making. How to Raise Children, art by Tony Strobl; Porky's nosy neighbor keeps criticizing the things Porky allows Cicero to do. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.