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Issue Details

Issue #12
Published 1942
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "WALT DISNEY'S BAMBI, No. 12." No code number. Copyright 1941, 1942 by Walt Disney Productions. Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994). Terry Meister has a copy which is identical to the indexed one except that it does not have the words "Four Color Comic No. 12" anywhere on the cover. It is not known why the variant was printed or how it was distributed.

Cover Details - "Bambi"

Characters Bambi; Thumper; Flower
Pencils Ken Hultgren
Inks Ken Hultgren
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes Al Hubbard may have assisted on art.

1 page Bambi illustration "Bambi and Friends"

Characters Bambi; Faline; Thumper; Flower; Friend Owl
Synopsis Illustration of Friend Owl, with head shots of the other characters in each corner.
Pencils Ken Hultgren
Inks Ken Hultgren
Notes Inside front cover; color.
Reprinted in Bambi (Dell, 1956 series) #3; in Bambi (Gold Key, 1963 series) #10087-309

64 page Bambi story "Bambi"

Characters Bambi; Faline; Thumper; Flower; Friend Owl; Great Stag; Ronno
Synopsis The adventures of Bambi and his friends as he grows from a new-born fawn into his birthright as Prince of the Forest.
Genre animal; adventure
Script Felix Salten (original story); Chase Craig (adaptation)
Pencils Ken Hultgren
Inks Ken Hultgren
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters Ken Hultgren
Notes Al Hubbard may have assisted on art. Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Based on the 1942 Walt Disney animated feature "Bambi," which was adapted from the 1928 novel "Bambi, A Life in the Woods" by Felix Salten. A sequel appears in Bambi's Children Four Color #30.

1 page Bambi illustration "Great Prince of the Forest"

Characters Bambi
Synopsis Outlined against a sunset, the adult Bambi stands on a bluff and surveys his domain.
Pencils Ken Hultgren
Inks Ken Hultgren
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes Inside back cover; color.
Reprinted in Bambi (Dell, 1956 series) #3; in Bambi (Gold Key, 1963 series) #10087-309

1 page Thumper illustration "Thumper"

Characters Thumper
Synopsis Thumper is "twitterpated" by a girl rabbit.
Pencils Ken Hultgren
Inks Ken Hultgren
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Notes Back cover.