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Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) comic books 1954

  • Issue #551
    Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 551

    Indicia title is "BOZO, featuring Bozo the Capitol Clown, No. 551." Cover painting by Lee Hooper. Bozo's Day Off; Bozo has the day off and decides he wants to see a circus. Professor Calculas and the Voodoo Box; ozo takes a trip in a balloon to investigate strange objects which appear to be floating in the sky; He and Sparky get involved with a strange inventor who wants the pair to help him in his search for the "missing link." Bozo the Lion Tamer; The circus owner wants Bozo to do the lion-tamer act while their handler is away. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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    $9 Four Color Bozo (1942) #551 - Good

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  • Issue #554
    Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 554

    Indicia title is "Rusty Riley, a Boy, a Horse, and a Dog, No. 554." Painted cover art by Sam Savitt. The Haunted Canyon, script and art by Frank Godwin; Rusty, Patty, Miss Blake, Tex, and Dr. Quinn go west to a dude ranch, where they become involved in a plot to swindle a rancher out of some valuable land. Reprinted from Rusty Riley (King Features) newspaper strips from 1949. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #555
    Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 555

    Painted cover art by Hank Hartman. Explanation of the causes of range wars between cattlemen and sheep herders. Zane Grey's Range War, script by Zane Grey (original story) and Gaylord Du Bois (adaptation); The Hash Knife outfit has been using Yellow Jacket Valley as open range for their cattle; The owner of the Diamond Ranch now has proved ownership of the valley and his nephew and his friends must keep the Hash Knife cowboys from rustling the Diamond cattle. Based on the 1933 novel "Hash Knife Outfit" by Zane Grey. This is a sequel to "Drift Fence" by Zane Grey. All art by Albert Micale. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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    $9 Four Color #555 Zane Grey's Range War (May-Jul 1954, Dell) - Good-

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  • Issue #556
    Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 556

    Indicia title is "DOUBLE TROUBLE with GOOBER, No. 556." Cover art by Bill MacLean. Guardsmen; Goober and the twins go into the private detective business. Goober Meets a Funny Man; Goober's mother sends him to grocery store to get a dozen eggs. Food for Thought; Jeannie and Johnnie try to avoid Mrs. McMeany, who always has them run errands in return for stale ginger cookies. Measles Makes a Friend for Life; Measles is tied up while the kids go fishing; He breaks free, but is chased by the dog-catcher. Scripts and art by Bill MacLean. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #566
    Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 566

    Indicia title is "SON OF BLACK BEAUTY, No. 566." Painted cover art by Sam Savitt. Facts about race horses. Son of Black Beauty, art by Morris Gollub; The trials and triumphs of Son of Black Beauty as he trains to compete in the Championship Cup Steeplechase race. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #567
    Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 567
    • INCOMPLETE. Multiple pages missing, interrupts art and story. Cover detached at one staple.

    Indicia title is "PRINCE VALIANT, No. 567." Photo cover of Prince Valiant (as played by Robert Wagner). Prince Valiant Comes to Camelot, script by Dudley Nichols (screenplay) and Paul S. Newman (comic adaptation), art by Bob Fujitani; When Sligon the Viking takes the throne of King Aguar, the king sends his son Prince Valiant to Camelot to become a knight in King Arthur's Court; Eventually Valiant and Boltar engage Sligon in a battle in King Aguar's castle. Adapted from the 1954 movie "Prince Valiant," which was based on the "Prince Valiant" newspaper strip by Hal Foster. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #568
    Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 568

    Indicia title is "PRISCILLA'S POP, No. 569." A Day Off; Waldo gets in trouble with his neighbor for borrowing his lawn mower and then breaking it. The Cookie Thief; Mr. Butterworth is supposed to pick up some cookies that Priscilla is baking for the church social. The Surprise; Waldo builds a brick outdoor grill; He plans to grill steaks on it; but Priscilla has plans to cook hot dogs for the neighborhood kids on it. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #570
    Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 570

    Indicia title is "BOB CLAMPETT'S BEANY AND CECIL, No. 570." Painted cover art. Lighthouse Repair; Dishonest John cuts the power to Lighthouse Island in order to salvage the ships that will sink on the rocks; Beany and Cecil and the crew go to King Neptune's Service Station in the Eel-ectric Sea to get some electric eels to provide temporary power to the lighthouse. Comic Rays; Professor X discovers that "Comic Rays" are the source of laughter; He and Beany and Cecil and the crew go to Aboo Peak in the Pacific Ocean, the "highest peak in the world," to capture and store some of the rays. All interior art by Jack Bradbury. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #572
    Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 572

    Indicia title is "Max Brand's SILVERTIP, No. 572." Painted cover art. Silvertip's Search, art by Everett Raymond Kinstler; Silvertip and Rap Brender pursue outlaws Bart Hawkins and José Murcio, with hostage Rose Cardigan, across the desert, trying to catch them before they can reach safety in Mexico. Based on the 1933 novel "Silvertip" by Max Brand. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #573
    Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 573
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    • Interior is complete. Full length spine split.

    Indicia title is "THE LITTLE PEOPLE, No. 573." Cover art by Don Gunn. The Little People and the Magic Mouse; A magic mouse takes the Little People to a faraway castle, where the Old One helps him break the spell of a mean magician by answering the riddle "Where does a hole go when it's filled up?" The Little People and the Groons; The lazy Groons fool the forest folk by telling them they are collecting food for the Little People, when they are just collecting for themselves. The Little People on Pearl Island; A large fish pulls Jink, Cork, and Chub's boat far downstream where they land upon the Island of Enchanted Pearls; Anything that is touched by an enchanted pearl gains the power of speech. All art by Don Gunn. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #576
    Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 576

    Indicia title is "ANGEL, No. 576." The Picnic; Angel takes Milton on a picnic. Georgie tries to get the picnic basket, but Angel ends up eating all the food while being chased. Angel's Pets; Angel gets a pet mouse that causes problems wherever she goes. The Secret Club; The boys allow Angel to join their secret club if she brings some furniture; With her mother's approval, the gang takes her father's old easy chair to the clubhouse. The Fountain; During a heat wave, Angel goes into the lemonade business. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #579
    Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 579

    Indicia title is "FRANCIS, THE FAMOUS TALKING MULE, No. 579." Cover art by Don Gunn. A House Full of Ghosts; Francis and Pete get involved with an old man who lives in a house full of ghosts. These ghosts, however, give him money. Sidewalk Radio Quiz Show; Francis answers questions on a sidewalk radio quiz show. Artistic Talent; Pete tries to get away from Francis by getting a job pasting posters on fences; but the movie advertised is "Francis Joins the WACS; this back cover strip is a combination story and promo, as "Francis Joins the WACS" is the fifth movie in the Francis the Talking Mule series. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #581
    Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 581

    Stories by unknown. Art and Cover by Harvey Eisenberg. Featuring four untitled tales, plus activity pages on the inside front and inside back covers. Starring Chip 'n' Dale, Seven Dwarfs, Big Bad Wolf, Thumper, Bambi, Donald Duck, Reluctant Dragon, Brer Terrapin, Brer Owl, Brer Rabbit, Wicked Witch and Brer Bear! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #582
    Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 582
    • 2" Cumulative spine split.

    Stories by unknown. Art and Painted Cover by Morris Gollub. Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli Jungle Book. Featuring the tales "Mowgli and Shere Khan" and "Letting in the Jungle"! Second of three Mowgli Jungle Book Four Color issues. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #583
    Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 583

    Indicia title is "Zane Grey's THE LOST WAGON TRAIN, No. 583." Painted cover art. Zane Grey's The Lost Wagon Train, script by Zane Grey (original story) and Gaylord Du Bois (comic adaptation), art by Albert Micale; The twists and turns of the life of Latch, a renegade Southerner, who teams with Indians to order the destruction of a wagon train and then must endure a series of events that takes loved ones from him. Adapted from the 1936 novel "The Lost Wagon Train" by Zane Grey. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #584
    Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 584

    Indicia title is "JOHNNY MACK BROWN, No. 584." Johnny Mack Brown photo cover. Retribution for Horse Thieves filler page; Brief history of vigilante justice for horse thieves in the Old West, art by August Lenox. The Killer's Trail, art by John Ushler; Arriving in Grande Mesa late at night, Johnny pays a visit to an old friend, Jim Murdock, who is managing a theatre; Two robbers break in to steal the payroll, shoot Jim, and knock Johnny unconscious. The Avenging Avalanche, art by Sparky Moore; Johnny interrupts a stage coach robbery, but the guard is shot. Spike Nash, the driver, and Johnny take the wounded man to a nearby Navajo village, where Spike is well-known; The bandits sneak up on the village and kill a Navajo. Johnny trails the bandits to a box canyon. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #585
    Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 585

    Indicia title is "BUGS BUNNY'S ALBUM, No. 585." Cover art by Ralph Heimdahl. Boppo Bunny; Boppo Bunny tries to find a dragon for Don Quixote to fight. Buglina Bunny; Buglina Bunny harasses Napoleon on the eve of the battle of Waterloo. Buggoo the Cave Bunny; Buggo is a tiny, modern-sized bunny, living in the prehistoric days when bunnies were as big as trees. Bug-Um Bunny; Bug-Um Bunny, an Indian rabbit, searches for food and has to avoid an Elmer Fudd-ish hunter during the Pilgrims' first winter in America. Buggledy Bunny; After finding a treasure chest, Buggledy Bunny gets caught between two pirate bands who want the treasure. Scripts by Don R. Christensen, art by Fred Abranz. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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    $5 Four Color #585 - Bugs Bunny's Album (1954, Dell) - Good-

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  • Issue #586
    Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 586

    Cover by Paul Murry. Stories by unknown. Art by Phil de Lara, Dick Moores and Paul Murry. Walt Disney's Duck Album. Featuring five untitled tales, plus a framing story on the inside front and inside back covers, and an illustration on the back cover. Starring Donald Duck, Huey, Dewey and Louie, Gus Goose, Jaq and Gus, Uncle Scrooge, Gladstone Gander, Daisy Duck, Beagle Boys and Black Pete! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #587
    Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 587

    Indicia title is "THE LITTLE SCOUTS, No. 587." Cover art by Don Gunn. Alias Mr. Johnson; Big Dan Dunkel escapes from prison and he and his accomplices stumble across the Scouts' campground; Dunkel turns out to be a perfect twin of Scoutmaster Johnson and tries to impersonate him to avoid the law. The Perfect Host; The Scouts have to play host to the girls from Camp Jo-May. Campfire Tale; Farmer Brown tells a tale of a bear that used to live in area of the Scouts' camp, leading Wimbish to have a dream about bears. The Silver Snuffbox; The Scouts deliver a suit from the cleaners to Mrs. Greenleaf, who lives in a house that once was a wax museum; She gives them a silver snuffbox that contains a series of mysterious notes. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #588
    Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 588

    King Richard and the Crusaders (movie); Matt Baker art. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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    $13 Four Color King Richard and the Crusaders #588 GD/VG
    $31 King Richard and the Crusaders Dell Four Color Comics #588 1954 10c Cover FN
    $75 Four Color # 588 VERY FINE October 1954 King Richard & the Crusaders

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  • Issue #589
    Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 589
    • INCOMPLETE. Page missing, interrupts art and story.

    Indicia title is "BUCK JONES, No. 589." Painted cover art. Cowboy Neckerchief Slide filler page, art by August Lenox; Directions for making a wooden neckerchief slide. Buck Jones and the Phantom Domino, script by Phil Evans, art by Mike Arens; Cliff Starch, who once robbed stages as "The Domino," disguised in a polka dot cloak and hood, has been released from prison; He comes to Lodestar at the same time that Susan Logan comes in on the stage to take over her father's ranch after his death. Buck Jones and The Hermit of Hurricane Ridge, script by Phil Evans, art by Mike Arens; Buck travels past "Hurricane Ridge" on his way to a wedding in Tornado; He finds a fellow guest invited to the wedding has been ambushed. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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    $32 Buck Jones FC # 589 1953 Fine + copy

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  • Issue #590
    Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 590

    Indicia title is "HANSEL AND GRETEL, No. 590." Michael Myerberg's Hansel and Gretel, art by Dan Gormley; Hansel and Gretel are sent into the forest by their mother to gather berries for dinner; After losing their way, they spend the night in the forest, guarded by 14 night angels; The next day they find the gingerbread house of Rosina the witch; She captures Hansel to fatten him up and make him part of the gingerbread hedge; Gretel rescues Hansel and the pair use a log to knock the witch into her stove, which then explodes; The house and the witch disappear and the children who were part of the hedge turn back into their original forms. Adaptation of the 1954 stop-action puppet movie "Hansel and Gretel". 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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    $6 HANSEL AND GRETEL (1954) Dell Four Color Comics #590 GOOD 10 Cent
    $30 Four Color # 590 FINE 1954 Hansel & Gretel Dan Gormley art
    3 days left Auction HANSEL AND GRETEL (1954) Dell four color Comics #590 golden age movie comic book

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  • Issue #591
    Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 591

    Indicia title is "Ernest Haycox's Western Marshall, No. 591." Painted cover art by Hank Hartman. Facts about the different methods of panning for gold. The Spanish Mine, art by Everett Raymond Kinstler; After resigning as marshal of River Bend, Dan Mitchell intends to get married and take up ranching; However, he is pressed into service as a marshal again when the marshal of Grubstake, a gold boomtown, is shot; Mitchell has to keep the peace between miners and "jumpers," who use a technicality in the claim law to take over any claim that hasn't been worked in a week; Complicating matters is Carson, who owns a lake that has water that miners need to process their gold, but refuses to sell them any of it. Sequel to "Western Marshal" in Four Color #534 (February 1954). 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #593
    Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 593

    Indicia title is "Walter Lantz OSWALD THE RABBIT, No. 593." Cover art by Lynn Karp; Oswald thinks he's getting old, script by Carl Fallberg, art by Ken Champin; Oswald thinks he's getting old, so he tries to keep up when the boys are playing their games. Rare Old Coins, art by Lynn Karp; The boys meet a Moonite, from the dark side of the Moon, in his flying saucer; The trio keeps a crook from stealing Oswald's valuable coin collection. The Tree House, script by Carl Fallberg, pencils by Ken Champin; Oswald and the boys are forced to camp out with their furniture while their house is being moved out of the path of a new highway. Trying to become a celebrity, script by Carl Fallberg, art by Ken Champin; When Floyd and Lloyd tell Oswald he's a nobody because no one wants his autograph, Oswald decides to become a professional wrestler and become a celebrity. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #594
    Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 594

    Indicia title is "BOZO, featuring Bozo the Capitol Clown, No. 594." Painted cover art by Lee Hooper. Elmer and the Witch, art by Lee Hooper; Mr. Wilks pays Bee Witch to take Bozo's pet, Elmer the Elephant, away from the circus; The witch uses a magic spray to send Elmer a million years back in time; Bozo and Sparky use the spray on themselves to go back in time to look for him. The Two-Headed Giant, art by Lee Hooper; A wandering planet comes close to earth and one of its inhabitants, a two-headed giant, falls to Earth next to Sparky's house. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #596
    Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 596
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Label #1280359002
    • Staple rust.
    • INCOMPLETE. Centerfold missing, affects art and story.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
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    Indicia title is "TUROK SON OF STONE, No. 596." Painted cover art by Robert C. Susor. Turok and the World Below, script by Gaylord Du Bois, art by Rex Maxon; In North America, before the advent of the white man, Native American Turok and his young friend Andar are out hunting when they find and venture into a cave system. Turok and the Terrible Ones, script by Gaylord Du Bois, art by Rex Maxon; Exploring the pre-historic jungle, Turok and Andar come across a tribe of cavemen, who naturally are suspicious; Turok is able to win their favor by showing them how they can use arrows with poisonous tips to hunt prey and kill hostile dinosaurs. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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    $1,150 FOUR COLOR #596 CGC GRADE 5.5 DELL PUBL. 1ST APPEARANCE OF TUROK!

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  • Issue #598
    Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 598

    Indicia title is "CAPTAIN DAVY JONES, No. 598." Painted cover art. Facts about shipping in the American colonies in the 18th Century. Captain Davy Jones, art by Ernie Schroeder; In the 18th century, pirate Richard Teach pretends to be a merchant ship captain and lures ships close by pretending to be a ship in distress; Captain Davy Jones and his crew on the ship "Pilgrim" are assigned to help guard Boston Harbor and find the pirates who are disrupting shipping. Promo for Dell Four Colors #599 (Ben Bowie and his Mountain Men), #596 (Turok Son of Stone), and #606 (Sir Lancelot). 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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    $7 Four Color Captain Davy Jones (1942) #598 - Good/Very Good
    $30 Four Color #598 1954 VG Captain Davy Jones

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  • Issue #600
    Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 600
    • Water damage.

    Stories by unknown. Art and Cover by Dick Moores. Walt Disney's Daisy Duck's Diary. Featuring three untitled tales, plus additional stories on the inside back and back covers, and an illustration on the inside front cover. First of nine Daisy Duck's Diary Four Color issues. Starring Daisy Duck, Donald Duck, Clara Cluck, Clarabelle Cow, Gladstone Gander, Huey, Dewey and Louie! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.