Comic books in 'Large Feature Comic'

Cover by George McManus. Stories and art by George McManus. Dell's Large Feature Comic reprinted classic comic strips. This issue reprints the Bringing Up Father daily strip from June 27, 1937 to Dec. 19, 1937. Famed for its intricate artwork and disastrous domestic relationship, Bringing Up Father, also known as Maggie and Jiggs, follows sweepstakes winner Jiggs and his social-climbing wife Maggie as they deal with their newfound wealth in their own ways. Jiggs is so ashamed of walking his wife's little dog that he hides it under a box when his friend walks by. But when Fifi the dog goes missing, Maggie goes into full bereavement mode until Jiggs can find a way to get it back. Jiggs discovers the drawbacks of the "new" photography craze. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in, 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by George Lichty. Stories and art by George Lichty. Dell's Large Feature Comic reprinted classic comic strips. This issue reprints Lichty's one-panel Grin And Bear It gag-a-day newspaper strip from 1940. At this point, the strip still had a single word balloon, rather than a caption for the dialogue. Published at the outset of WWII, there are plenty of references to "Defense" and the war in Europe. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in, 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Jimmy Murphy. Stories and art by Jimmy Murphy. Dell's Large Feature Comic reprinted classic comic strips. This issue reprints the Toots and Casper strip from 1938, featuring domestic comedy of the Blondie and Dagwood school. After Casper gets robbed of the money for Al's birthday present, it starts a comedy of errors as everyone who hears about it tries to help. A baby-photo competition for an advertising company has an unexpected winner. Toots (who actually looks a lot like Blondie) buys a picture of a handsome stranger, just to make Casper jealous. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in, 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Martin Branner. Stories and art by Martin Branner. Dell's Large Feature Comic reprinted classic comic strips. This issue reprints the Winnie Winkle comic strip from 1937. Winnie Winkle traced the workaday trials and tribulations of its title character, blazing the trail for the "working girl" strips that followed. Winnie's boyfriend Will pops the question, but Maw and Paw aren't sure he's the right guy for her. When Will is kidnapped by crooked lawyers just before the wedding, it looks like her parents are right. Will finally makes the wedding, but some bad advice from the older folks threatens their newlywed happiness. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in, 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Frank Willard and Ferd Johnson. Dell's Large Feature Comic reprinted classic comic strips. This issue reprints Moon Mullins from September 1937 to January 1938. The original slacker, Moon Mullins had misadventures with the members of the boardinghouse where he lived, including landlady Emmy and well-bred Lord Plushbottom. After their latest altercation with the local police, Moon and Lord Plushbottom decide to leave town until things cool off. But trouble follows them.... 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in, 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Donald Duck Comic Paint Book (Large Feature Book #20, 1941). Single large panel at top of each page with a daily comic strip across the bottom of each page. Color cover, 36 pages interior, black and white interior, 11.25-in. x 8.5-in. Cover price $0.10.

Considered part of Dell's Large Feature Comic series, this is actually more like a Dumbo coloring book. While there are Dumbo cartoons, the emphasis is on the large Dumbo images to color on each page. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in, 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Story by Carl Barks, Jack Hannah, and Nick George. Art by Bruce Bushman. Pluto Saves the Ship. This issue of Dell's Large Feature Comic is significant for several reasons. It is one of the first American Disney comic books that was not composed of material reprinted from newspaper comic strips. It is Pluto's first comic book. And it represents the first comics work of future Disney comics legend Carl Barks. Barks contributed to the story for this issue (not the art), based on two Pluto cartoons that Barks worked on at Disney studios, Bone Trouble (1940) and The Army Mascot (1942). The art is by Disney animation layout artist Bruce Bushman. The WWII-era story has Pluto encountering Nazi saboteurs on a Navy cruiser. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in, 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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10-cent Cover Price Variant. Story by Fran Striker. Art by Henry Vallely. Large Feature Comic: Hi-Yo Silver the Lone Ranger to the Rescue (Scarce 1939). Published by Dell. Based on the radio program. 8 1/2" X 11 1/2". 52 pages. B&W Cover price $0.10.

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Stories, art and cover by Milton Caniff. Dell Comics reprints stories from Milton Caniffs classic Terry and the Pirates adventure comic strip of the 1930s, featuring Caniffs rich, dark drawing style and influential narratives. These strips date from 1935-1936. Pat and Terry meet the con artist Burma for the first time, just in time to play the patsies for her latest swindle, unless they can outwit her first. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.