Walt Disney\'s, DELL GIANT, BACK TO SCHOOL, Huey/Dewey/Louie, # 49, 1961, VF/NM-
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Walt Disney\'s, DELL GIANT, BACK TO SCHOOL, Huey/Dewey/Louie, # 49, 1961, VF/NM- :
$75.00
Listing:This listing is for a \"Dell Giant, Back to School FeaturingWalt Disney\'s Huey, Dewey, and Louie \" comic, Number 49, dated1961, Published byDellComics ( Dell Publications Co., Inc. ).comic has acover price of $0.25.
Publication:Dell Comics was the comic book publishing arm of Dell Publishing, which got its start in pulp magazines. It published comics from 1929 to 1973. At its peak, it was the most prominent and successful American company in the medium. In 1953 Dell claimed to be the world\'s largest comics publisher, selling 26 million copies each month. Dell Comics was best known for its licensed material, most notably the animated characters from Walt Disney Productions, Warner Bros., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Walter Lantz Studio, along with many movie and television properties such as the Lone Ranger, Tarzan, Howdy Doody, Yogi Bear and other Hanna-Barbera characters. 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 consisted of stand alone issues featuring various licensed properties) saw more than 1,300 issues published in its 23-year history. It often served as a try-out title (much like DC\'s Showcase) and thus the launching pad for many long-running series. Another notable title was the Dell Giantseries.Writer/artists Walt Kelly and Carl Barks are the most noted talents associated with the company. Other prolific scripters were Gaylord DuBois, Bud Sagendorf, Paul S. Newman, Don \"Arr\"Christensen, John Stanley, Bob Gregory, Robert Schaefer and Eric Freiwald, Lloyd Turner, Leo Dorfman, Don Segall , Edward Kean, Cecil Beard and Carl Fallberg. Artists who worked on comics published by Dell included Fred Harman, Alex Toth, John Carey, Russ Manning, Jesse Marsh, Alberto Giolitti, Paul Murry, Tony Strobl, Harvey Eisenberg, Tom Gill, Ken Hultgren, Dick Moores, Jack Bradbury, Gil Turner, Fred Fredericks, Roger Armstrong, Jack Manning, Kay Wright, Bill Wright, Phil DeLara, Pete Alvarado, Dan Spiegle, Lynn Karp, Ellis Eringer, Paul Norris, Frank Bolle, Artie Saaf, Dan Noonan, John Ushler, Sam Glanzman, Bill Ziegler and John Buscema.
Condition: Condition of comic is \"VERY FINE+/NEAR MINT-\". top and bottom edges of spine have a very minor bump, (see pictures 2, 5, 7, 11 and 12),weak minor crease on front cover on left edge 1/3 of way down from top edge ( see pictures 2 and 3),pages are tan-off white. See pictures for alldetails.
Walt Disney\'s Characters: Donald Duck, whose full name isDonald Fauntleroy Duckis a cartoon character created in 1934 at Walt Disney Productions and licensed by The Walt Disney Company. Donald is an anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a sailor suit with a cap and a black or red bow tie. Donald is most famous for his semi-intelligible speech and his explosive temper. Along with his friend Mickey Mouse, Donald is one of the most popular Disney characters and was included in TV Guide\'s list of the 50 greatest cartoon characters of all time in 2002. He has appeared in more films than any other Disney character and is the fifth most published comic book character in the world after Batman, Superman, Spider-Man, and Wolverine. Donald Duck rose to fame with his comedic roles in animated cartoons. He first appeared in The Wise Little Hen (1934), but it was his second appearance in Orphan\'s Benefit which introduced him as a temperamental comic foil to Mickey Mouse. Throughout the 1930s, \'40s and \'50s he appeared in over 150 theatrical films, several of which were recognized at the Academy Awards. Donald was regularly part of an ensemble cast with Mickey and Goofy, and was given his own series of films in 1937, starting with Don Donald. These films introduced Donald\'s girlfriend Daisy Duck and sometimes featured his three nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie. .Donald was most famously drawn by Al Taliaferro, Carl Barks, and Don Rosa. Barks in particular is credited for greatly expanding the \"duck universe,\" the world in which Donald lives, and creating many additional characters such as Donald\'s maternal uncle Scrooge McDuck. Uncle $croogewhose full name is\"$crooge McDuck\" the richest duck in the world as well as the stingiestis anothercharacter. Many of the albums consisted of stories written and drawn by Carl Barks, the creator of $crooge McDuck. $crooge McDuck is a cartoon character created by Barks, in 1947, and licensed by The Walt Disney Company. Scrooge is an anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a red or blue frock coat, top hat, pince-nez glasses, and spats. Named after Ebenezer Scrooge from the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol, Scrooge is a wealthy Scottish American business magnate who is characterized as a greedy miser. .$crooge first appearing in the 1947 Four Color story \"Christmas on Bear Mountain\" (#178). Initially a supporting character in Donald Duck stories, he soon became a major figure of the Duck universe. In 1952 he was given his own comic book series, called Uncle Scrooge, which still runs today. Scrooge was most famously drawn by his creator Carl Barks, and later by Don Rosa. Comics have remained Scrooge\'s primary medium. A shrewd businessduck and noted tightwad, he is fond of diving into his money like a porpoise, burrowing through it like a gopher, and throwing coins into the air to let them fall upon his head—all without injury, much to the bafflement of others. He is also the richest member of The Billionaires Club of Duckburg, a society which includes the most successful businessmen of the world and allows them to keep connections with each other. Glomgold and Rockerduck are also influential members of the Club. His most famous prized possession is his Number One Dime. Beagle Boys:The Beagle Boys are a group of fictional characters from the Duck Universe. Created by Carl Barks, they are a gang of criminals who constantly try to rob $crooge McDuck. The Beagle Boys are usually depicted as a gang of about six to ten members, who are similar in appearance and personality, and without an established leader. The three most common numbers on Beagle Boys prison tags are 176-167, 176-671, and 176-176. In fact, no digits other than one, six, or seven appeared on their prison ID tags. Carl Barks used to include the words \"Beagle Boys Inc\" on their shirts under their numbers, which was later deleted.Gyro Gearloose:Gyro Gearlooseis a fictional character, an anthropomorphic chicken created by Carl Barks for The Walt Disney Company. He is part of the Duck universe, appearing in comic book stories as a friend of Donald Duck, Scrooge and anyone who is associated with them.Gyro is Duckburg\'s most famous inventor, even though his inventions don\'t always work the way he wants them to. His outrageous productivity is presented as a factor in the quality of his inventions; because he always comes up with new ideas, the fact that his inventions often lack an important feature, will often cause trouble for Scrooge or Donald who have bought the invention. He is known as being good-natured towards others. Gyro is often assisted by his Little Helper (or just \"Helper\"), who is a small anthropomorphic robot with a light bulb for a head Besides Little Helper, he has also a thinking cap, a combination of a roof-top and a nest, with three black birds living in it, and Gladstone ( the luckest duck in the world ).
Advertisement: This comic has a Schwinn Ad. for the American Bike on the back cover and a Kellogg\'s OK Cereal with Yogi Bear.
Cover: Great High Gloss Cover showing Huey, Dewey and Louie heading back to school.
Shipping: We ship the comic(s) in large envelopes, in a clear plastic comic bag, layered between two sheets of reinforced cardboard, again in another second clear plastic bag, and with clear shipping tape reinforcing the outside of the large envelope and protecting the shipping label. This has proven to be a highly safe and effective way to ship and protect the comic(s).
Agreat cover.Awonderful comic,in excellent condition, except as set forth above, and a fine addition to any collection of Dell Giant Comics, Donald Duck comics orcomics based on Walt Disney characters.
Walt Disney\'s, DELL GIANT, BACK TO SCHOOL, Huey/Dewey/Louie, # 49, 1961, VF/NM- :
$75.00