Four Color Comics (2nd Series)

    (Dell, 1941-1962, 1965, 2014)
™ and © Dell Publishing Co.

Published weekly from 1941 until 1962, Dell’s Four Color Comics had more issues published than any other American comic—some 1354 in all. During its decades-long run, it featured dozens of comic icons including Uncle Scrooge, Prince Valiant, Bozo the Clown, Bugs Bunny, Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and countless others.

Despite its singular place in comics history, many comic readers have never heard the name “Four Color Comics.” Why? Because virtually every issue ran under the name of the main character—the inscription “Four Color Comics” only appeared in the title’s indicia. This was doubly confusing to readers. A cover reading, say “Popeye” with an issue number of #145, naturally left readers wondering where Popeye #1–144 had gone.

The complete list of Four Color Comics that appears here was generously donated by Maggie Thompson of CBG.
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  • 1
    #1
    Jun 1942
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Harold Gray  ·  A: Harold Gray, Robert Leffingwell
    Reprints from Chicago Tribune Sunday strips
    No copies available
  • 2
    #2
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Carl Ed  ·  A: Carl Ed
    Reprints from Harold Teen (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1937; ca. 1942
    No copies available
  • 3
    #3
    Cover: $0.10
    W: V.T. Hamlin  ·  A: V.T. Hamlin
    Reprints from Alley Oop (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1937 and 1938; ca. 1942
    No copies available
  • 3-2
    #3 - 2nd printing
    Red framed border on cover
    Aug 2014
    W: V.T. Hamlin  ·  A: V.T. Hamlin
    Reprints from Alley Oop (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1937 and 1938; Larger sized reproduction of Four Color Comics (2nd series) #3; Reprint by Kari Therrian; Squarebound
    No copies available
  • 4
    #4
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Zack Mosley  ·  A: Zack Mosley, Boody Rogers
    Reprints from Popular Comics #63 (May 1941), #64 (Jun 1941), #65 (Jul 1941), #66 (Aug 1961), #67 (Sep 1961), #68 (Oct 1961), #69 (Nov 1961), #70 (Dec 1941), and #71 (Jan 1942); ca. 1942
    No copies available
  • 5
    #5
    Jan 1942
    Cover: $0.10
    A: George Kerr
    1st Appearance Raggedy Ann; 1st Appearance Raggedy Andy
    No copies available
  • 6
    #6
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Walter Berndt  ·  A: Walter Berndt
    ca. 1942
    No copies available
  • 7
    #7
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Bill Holman  ·  A: Bill Holman
    Reprints from Smokey Stover (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) Sunday strip from 1938; ca. 1942
    No copies available
  • 8
    #8
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Russ Westover  ·  A: Russ Westover
    Reprints from Tillie the Toiler (King Features Syndicate, Inc.) Sunday newspaper strips from 1937-1939; ca. 1942
    No copies available
  • 9
    #9
    Aug 1942
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Bob Karp, Homer Brightman  ·  A: Carl Barks, Hank Porter, Jack Hannah
    Carl Barks’ first comic-book work
    No copies available
  • 9/A
    #9 Variation A
    File copy Edition with Cover A by Hank Porter
    Aug 1942
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Bob Karp, Homer Brightman  ·  A: Carl Barks, Hank Porter, Jack Hannah
    No copies available
  • 10
    #10
    Sep 1942
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Don Moore  ·  A: Alex Raymond, Austin Briggs
    No copies available
  • 11
    #11
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Roy Crane  ·  A: Roy Crane
    Reprints from Wash Tubbs (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1937 and 1938; ca. 1942
    No copies available
  • 12
    #12
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Chase Craig, Felix Salten  ·  A: Ken Hultgren, Al Hubbard
    ca. 1942
    No copies available
  • 12/A
    #12 Variation A
    15 cent Edition with cover by Ken Hultgren
    Cover: $0.15
    W: Chase Craig, Felix Salten  ·  A: Ken Hultgren, Al Hubbard
    No copies available
  • 13
    #13
    Cover: $0.10
    A: Maurice Kashuba, Jim Chambers
    Reprints from The Funnies #53 (Mar 1941), #57 (Jul 1941), #59 (Sep 1941), #60 (Oct 1941), #61 (Nov 1941), #62 (Dec 1941), and #64 (May 1942); ca. 1942
    No copies available
  • 14
    #14
    Cover: $0.15
    W: Zack Mosley  ·  A: Zack Mosley, Boody Rogers
    Reprints from Popular Comics #72 (Feb 1942), #73 (Mar 1942), #74 (Apr 1942), #75 (May 1942), #76 (Jun 1942), #77 (Jul 1942), #78 (Aug 1942), #79 (Sep 1942), and #80 (Oct 1942); ca. 1942
    No copies available
  • 15
    #15
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Otto Messmer  ·  A: Otto Messmer
    Reprints from Felix the Cat (King Features Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1935; ca. 1942
    No copies available
  • 16
    #16
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Leon Schlesinger, Chase Craig  ·  A: Leon Schlesinger, Carl Buettner, Chase Craig
    ca. 1942
    No copies available
  • 17
    #17
    Cover: $0.10
    W: E.C. Segar  ·  A: E.C. Segar, Bill Zaboly
    Reprints from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1937 and 1938
    No copies available
  • 18
    #18
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Harold Gray  ·  A: Harold Gray
    Reprints from Little Orphan Annie (News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1942
    No copies available
  • 19
    #19
    Mar 1943
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Carl Buettner  ·  A: Carl Buettner
    Thumper Meets the Seven Dwarfs
    No copies available
  • 20
    #20
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Frank Miller  ·  A: Frank Miller
    Reprints from Barney Baxter in the Air newspaper strip from 1938 and 1939; ca. 1943
    No copies available
  • 21
    #21
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Walter Lantz, Gaylord Du Bois  ·  A: Walter Lantz, Ken Hultgren
    ca. 1943
    No copies available
  • 22
    #22
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Russ Westover  ·  A: Russ Westover
    Reprints from Tillie the Toiler dailies (King Features Syndicate), circa 1937-1940; ca. 1943
    No copies available
  • 23
    #23
    Jun 1943
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Gaylord Du Bois  ·  A: Emma McKean, George Kerr
    No copies available
  • 24
    #24
    Cover: $0.10
    A: Bob Jenney, Dan Gormley, Jim Chambers, E.C. Stoner
    Reprints from Popular Comics #70 (Dec 1941), #72 (Feb 1942), #73 (Mar 1942), #74 (Apr 1942), #75 (May 1942), #76 (Jun 1942), #77 (Jul 1942), #78 (aug 1942), #79 (Sep 1942), #80 (Oct 1942), and #83 (Jan 1943); ca. 1943
    No copies available
  • 25
    #25
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Walter Lantz  ·  A: Walter Lantz, Jim Pabian
    ca. 1943
    No copies available
  • 26
    #26
    Cover: $0.10
    W: E.C. Segar  ·  A: E.C. Segar
    Reprints from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1935-1939
    No copies available
  • 27
    #27
    Feb 1950
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Ken Hultgren  ·  A: Ken Hultgren
    No copies available
  • 28
    #28
    Aug 1943
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Roy Crane  ·  A: Roy Crane
    Reprints from Red Ryder Comics #3 (Aug 1941), #4 (Oct 1941), #5 (Dec 1941), #6 (Apr 1942), #7 (May-Jun 1942), #8 (Jul-Aug 1942), #9 (Sep-Oct 1942), #10 (Nov-Dec 1942), #11 (Jan-Feb 1943), and #12 (Mar-Apr 1943)
    No copies available
  • 29
    #29
    Sep 1943
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Carl Barks  ·  A: Carl Barks, Carl Buettner
    Donald Duck
    No copies available
  • 30
    #30
    Oct 1943
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Felix Salten  ·  A: Ken Hultgren
    Bambi
    No copies available
  • 31
    #31
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Frank Willard  ·  A: Frank Willard
    No copies available
  • 32
    #32
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Walter Berndt  ·  A: Walter Berndt
    No copies available
  • 33
    #33
    Dec 1943
    Cover: $0.10
    A: Carl Buettner
    Bugs Bunny
    No copies available
  • 34
    #34
    Jan 1944
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Chester Gould  ·  A: Chester Gould
    No copies available
  • 35
    #35
    Jan 1944
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Bill Holman  ·  A: Bill Holman
    No copies available
  • 36
    #36
    Feb 1944
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Zack Mosley  ·  A: Zack Mosley
    No copies available
  • 37
    #37
    Cover: $0.10
    W: George McManus  ·  A: George McManus
    No copies available
  • 38
    #38
    Mar 1944
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Gaylord Du Bois  ·  A: Burris Jenkins Jr.
    No copies available
  • 39
    #39
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Gaylord Du Bois  ·  A: Lloyd White
    Oswald the Rabbit (1944); ca. 1944
    No copies available
  • 40
    #40
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Billy DeBeck  ·  A: Billy DeBeck
    No copies available
  • 41
    #41
    Apr 1944
    Cover: $0.10
    W: William L. Miller, L.M. Child
    No copies available
  • 42
    #42
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Stanley Link  ·  A: Stanley Link
    No copies available
  • 43
    #43
    Apr 1944
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Roy Crane  ·  A: Bill Zaboly
    No copies available
  • 44
    #44
    May 1944
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Milton Caniff  ·  A: Milton Caniff
    1 copy for $35.00
  • 45
    #45
    May 1944
    Cover: $0.10
    A: George Kerr
    Raggedy Ann and Andy
    No copies available
  • 46
    #46
    Jun 1944
    Cover: $0.10
    A: Otto Messmer
    No copies available
  • 47
    #47
    Jul 1944
    Cover: $0.10
    Gene Autry
    No copies available
  • 48
    #48
    Jul 1944
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Chase Craig  ·  A: Carl Barks
    No copies available
  • 49
    #49
    Jul 1944
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Merrill De Maris, Carl Buettner  ·  A: Hank Porter, Carl Buettner
    No copies available
  • 50
    #50
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Hans Christian Andersen, Gaylord DuBois, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm  ·  A: Walt Kelly, Arthur Jameson, George Kerr
    Fairy Tale Parade (1944); ca. 1944
    No copies available
  • 51
    #51
    Aug 1944
    Cover: $0.10
    A: Tom McKimson, Carl Buettner
    Bugs Bunny
    No copies available
  • 52
    #52
    Sep 1944
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Harold Gray  ·  A: Harold Gray
    No copies available
  • 53
    #53
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Roy Crane  ·  A: Roy Crane
    No copies available
  • 54
    #54
    Cover: $0.10
    W: John Stanley  ·  A: Dan Gormley
    No copies available
  • 55
    #55
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Russ Westover
    No copies available
  • 56
    #56
    Sep 1944
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Chester Gould  ·  A: Chester Gould
    1 copy for $250.00
  • 57
    #57
    Nov 1944
    Cover: $0.10
    A: Till Goodan
    Gene Autry
    No copies available
  • 58
    #58
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Zack Mosley  ·  A: Zack Mosley
    No copies available
  • 59
    #59
    Dec 1944
    Cover: $0.10
    A: Walt Kelly
    No copies available
  • 60
    #60
    Gatefold cover by George Kerr
    Dec 1944
    Cover: $0.10
    A: George Kerr
    No copies available
  • 61
    #61
    Nov 1944
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Walt Kelly, Clement C. Moore, Gaylord Du Bois, Joseph Mohr, Lydia Arms Avery Coonley-Ward, James Lord Pierpont  ·  A: Arthur Jameson, Walt Kelly
    No copies available
  • 62
    #62
    Jan 1945
    Cover: $0.10
    A: Carl Barks, Al Taliaferro
    52 pages; Donald Duck
    1 copy for $543.00
  • 63
    #63
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Gaylord Du Bois
    No copies available
  • 64
    #64
    Feb 1945
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Bill Holman  ·  A: Bill Holman
    No copies available
  • 65
    #65
    Mar 1945
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Walter Berndt  ·  A: Walter Berndt
    No copies available
  • 66
    #66
    Cover: $0.10
    A: Jesse Marsh
    Gene Autry
    No copies available
  • 67
    #67
    Apr 1945
    Cover: $0.10
    W: John Stanley  ·  A: Lloyd White
    No copies available
  • 68
    #68
    Apr 1945
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Charles H. Herman, Oliver Goldsmith, Sarah Hale  ·  A: Walt Kelly
    No copies available
  • 69
    #69
    Jun 1945
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Walt Kelly  ·  A: Walt Kelly, Arthur Jameson, George Kerr
    June-November 1945
    No copies available
  • 70
    #70
    Apr 1945
    Cover: $0.10
    A: Bill Zaboly
    No copies available
  • 71
    #71
    May 1945
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Walt Kelly  ·  A: Walt Kelly
    The Three Caballeros (Disney)
    No copies available
  • 72
    #72
    Apr 1945
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Gaylord Du Bois  ·  A: George Kerr
    No copies available
  • 73
    #73
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Gus Edson  ·  A: Gus Edson
    No copies available
  • 74
    #74
    Jun 1945
    Cover: $0.10
    W: John Stanley  ·  A: John Stanley
    No copies available
  • 75
    #75
    Jun 1945
    Cover: $0.10
    A: Jesse Marsh
    No copies available
  • 76
    #76
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Harold Gray  ·  A: Harold Gray
    No copies available
  • 77
    #77
    Jul 1945
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Otto Messmer  ·  A: Otto Messmer
    No copies available
  • 78
    #78
    Jul 1945
    Cover: $0.10
    A: Carl Buettner
    No copies available
  • 79
    #79
    Aug 1945
    Cover: $0.10
    A: Carl Barks
    Mickey Mouse
    No copies available
  • 80
    #80
    Sep 1945
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Zack Mosley  ·  A: Zack Mosley, Boody Rogers
    No copies available
  • 81
    #81
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Frank Willard
    No copies available
  • 82
    #82
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Fran Striker  ·  A: Charles Flanders
    Reprints from The Lone Ranger (King Features Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1942
    No copies available
  • 83
    #83
    Sep 1945
    Cover: $0.10
    Gene Autry
    No copies available
  • 84
    #84
    Sep 1945
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Don Moore  ·  A: Alex Raymond
    No copies available
  • 85
    #85
    Oct 1945
    Cover: $0.10
    Andy Panda
    No copies available
  • 86
    #86
    Oct 1945
    Cover: $0.10
    No copies available
  • 87
    #87
    Nov 1945
    Cover: $0.10
    A: Walt Kelly
    No copies available
  • 88
    #88
    Sep 1945
    Cover: $0.10
    A: Carl Buettner
    No copies available
  • 89
    #89
    Nov 1945
    Cover: $0.10
    No copies available
  • 90
    #90
    Dec 1945
    Cover: $0.10
    A: Walt Kelly
    No copies available
  • 91
    #91
    Dec 1945
    Cover: $0.10
    A: Walt Kelly
    No copies available
  • 92
    #92
    Jan 1946
    Cover: $0.10
    A: Walt Kelly
    Pinocchio (Disney)
    No copies available
  • 93
    #93
    Jan 1946
    Cover: $0.10
    Gene Autry
    No copies available
  • 94
    #94
    Jan 1946
    Cover: $0.10
    No copies available
  • 95
    #95
    Feb 1946
    Cover: $0.10
    1 copy for $81.98
  • 96
    #96
    Feb 1946
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Chester Gould  ·  A: Chester Gould
    Reprints from Dick Tracy (Chicago Tribune) newspaper strips from 1940
    1 copy for $22.00
  • 97
    #97
    Jan 1946
    Cover: $0.10
    W: John Stanley  ·  A: John Stanley
    No copies available
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