comic book
A comic book, comic-magazine, or simply comic is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panel (comics), panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by descriptive prose and wri ...
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.Evanier, Mark "What was the relationship between Dell Comics and Gold Key Comics?" In 1953, Dell claimed to be the world's largest comics publisher, selling 26 million copies each month."Good Friends for Him... and Mother Too.. in Dell Comics!" ''Saturday Evening Post'' (January 10, 1953). /ref>
History
Origins
Its first title was '' The Funnies'' (1929), described by the
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as "a short-lived newspaper tabloid insert" rather than a comic book. Comics historian Ron Goulart describes the 16-page, four-color,
newsprint
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periodical as "more a Sunday comic section without the rest of the newspaper than a true comic book. But it did offer all original material and was sold on
newsstand
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s". It ran 36 weekly issues, published Saturdays from January 16, 1929, to October 16, 1930.''Funnies, The'' (Dell, Film Humor, Inc. [#1-2 /nowiki>; Dell Publishing Co. [#3-36">1-2">''Funnies, The'' (Dell, Film Humor, Inc. [#1-2 /nowiki>; Dell Publishing Co. [#3-36/nowiki> imprint, 1929 Series)] at the Grand Comics Database The cover price rose from 10¢ to 30¢ with issue #3. This was reduced to a nickel from issue #22 to the end.
In 1933, Dell collaborated with Eastern Color Printing to publish the 36-page '' Famous Funnies: A Carnival of Comics'', considered by historians the first true American comic book; Goulart, for example, calls it "the cornerstone for one of the most lucrative branches of magazine publishing". It was distributed through the Woolworth's
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chain, though it is unclear whether it was sold or given away; the cover displays no price, but Goulart refers, either metaphorically or literally, to the publisher "sticking a ten-cent pricetag /nowiki>sic">sic.html" ;"title="/nowiki>sic">/nowiki>sic/nowiki> on the comic books".Goulart, "Famous Funnies", p. 145
In early 1934, Dell published the single-issue ''Famous Funnies: Series 1'', also printed by Eastern Color. Unlike its predecessor, it was intended from the start to be sold rather than given away.
In 1936, the company partnered with McClure Syndicate in which Dell would finance and distribute publications that McClure would produce and edit on behalf of then-company executive Max Gaines">McClure Newspaper Syndicate">McClure Syndicate in which Dell would finance and distribute publications that McClure would produce and edit on behalf of then-company executive Max Gaines and editor Sheldon Mayer. Among the titles Gaines oversaw were ''The Comics'', ''Popular Comics'' and '' The Funnies''. Gaines would leave McClure, and by extension, Dell in 1939, in order to set up
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with a distribution/partnership agreement at DC.
Western Publishing
The company formed a partnership in 1938 with
Western Publishing
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, in which Dell would finance and distribute publications that Western would produce. While this diverged from the regular practice in the medium of one company handling finance and production and outsourcing distribution, it was a highly successful enterprise with titles selling in the millions. Most of the Dell-produced comics done for Western Publishing during this period were under the Whitman Comics banner (later also used by Gold Key Comics); notable titles included ''Crackajack Funnies'' (1938–1942) and ''Super Comics'' (1938–1949).
Comic book historian Mark Carlson has stated that at its peak in the mid-1950s, "while Dell’s total number of comic book titles asonly 15% of those published, it control dnearly a third of the total market. Dell admore million-plus sellers than any other company before or since".
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Howdy Doody
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Hanna-Barbera
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characters.
''Four Color''
From 1938 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 standalone 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, a number of which (such as '' The Twilight Zone'') were continued not by Dell, but Gold Key Comics, the competing company formed when Western ended its partnership (see below).
Lil' Eightball
Responding to pressure from the
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community, the character Lil' Eightball (who appeared in a handful of Walter Lantz cartoons in the late 1930s and in those initial appearances constituted what animation and comics historian Michael Barrier described as being a "grotesquely stereotypical black boy") was discontinued as one of the featured characters in the Lantz anthology comic book ''New Funnies''; the last appearance of the character was in the August 1947 issue.
Fredric Wertham
In 1948, Dell refused an invitation of membership in the nascent Association of Comics Magazine Publishers. The association had been formed to pre-empt government intervention in the face of mounting public criticism of comic books. Dell vice-president Helen Meyer told
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that Dell had opted out of the association because they didn't want their less controversial offerings to serve as "an umbrella for the crime comic publishers". When the Comics Code was formed in 1954 in reaction to Wertham's ''
Seduction of the Innocent
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'', Dell again refused to join and instead began publishing in its comics a "Pledge to Parents" that promised their editorial process "eliminates, rather than regulates, objectional icmaterial" and concluded with the now classic credo "Dell Comics Are Good Comics."
Bart Beaty in his book ''Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture'' describes a concerted campaign by Dell against publication of Wertham's ''Seduction of the Innocent'' to the extent of recruiting several of the companies that it licensed characters from (including Warner Brother Cartoons, the Lone Ranger Inc. and Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc.) to send letters of protest to Wertham's publisher Stanley Rinehart.
Dell in this period even burnished its image by taking out full-page ads in the ''
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'' in late 1952 and early 1953 that emphasized the wholesomeness of its comics.
Dell Comics Club and subscription promotions
From mid-1950 to Spring 1959 Dell promoted subscriptions to its non-Disney titles with what it called the Dell Comics Club. Membership was automatic with any one year subscription to such titles and came with a certificate of membership plus a group portrait of the most prominent non-Disney characters published by Dell. Dell also offered various subscription premiums during the 1940s and 1950s (in some cases these were prints of covers or other character artwork and in one instance a cel from a Warner Brothers cartoon) in what Mark Evanier has dubbed a coordinated concerted "aggressive subscription push" and offered the option of an illustrated note or card be sent to the recipients of a gift subscription for birthdays or Christmas.
Multi-year subscriptions were also available (in the case of ''
Walt Disney's Comics and Stories
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'', at one point in the 1940s subscriptions for up to five years were offered).
Alternate format
In 1961, Dell issued two atypical, comic-book like paperbacks without coloring, with cardboard covers and heavier-weight paper than standard comics, and selling for one dollar when most comic books were 12 cents: the 116-page ''The Flintstones on the Rocks'' and the 117-page ''Huck & Yogi Jamboree'' One historian describes the latter as "a collection of drawings with text (there’s not a word balloon to be found). But there are drawings that are sequential which tell stories.... is was intended for Huck and Yogi’s ''adult'' fans. Of which there apparently were more than a few, given the format and high price — $1!"
Western partnership ends, Dell declines
In 1961, Dell became the first comic book company to increase its cover prices, raising the prices to fifteen cents; this was soon lowered to twelve cents. In 1962 the partnership with Western ended, with Western taking most of its licensed properties and its original material and creating its own imprint, Gold Key Comics.
While most of the talent who had worked on the Dell line continued at Gold Key, a few creators like John Stanley stuck with Dell and its new line. Dell also drew new talent to its fold, such as Frank Springer, Don Arneson, and Lionel Ziprin.
Dell Comics continued for another 11 years with licensed
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and
motion picture
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adaptations (including '' Mission: Impossible'', '' Ben Casey'', '' Burke's Law'', '' Doctor Kildare'', '' Beach Blanket Bingo'') and a few generally poorly received original titles. Among the few long lasting series from this time include the teen-comic '' Thirteen Going on Eighteen'' (29 issues, written by John Stanley), ''Ghost Stories'' (37 issues, #1 only written by John Stanley), ''Combat'' (40 issues), ''Ponytail'' (20 issues), '' Kona Monarch of Monster Isle'' (20 issues), '' Toka the Jungle King'' (10 issues), and '' Naza Stone Age Warrior'' (9 issues). Dell additionally attempted to do superhero titles, including '' Nukla'', ''Superheroes'' (starring the Fab 4, as the group's name was spelled on covers), '' Brain Boy'', and a critically ridiculed trio of titles based on the Universal Pictures monsters
Frankenstein
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,
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and
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that recast the characters as superheroes.
Dell Comics ceased publication in 1973, with a few of its former titles moving to Gold Key Comics.
Corporate acquisitions
Dell was acquired by Doubleday in 1976. Doubleday was acquired by
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in 1986, who formed Bantam Doubleday Dell as its US subsidiary. Bertelsmann acquired
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in 1998 and renamed its US business after the acquisition. After the merger, Bantam was merged with Dell Publishing. In 2001, Random House purchased Golden Books' book publishing properties effectively reuniting the remnants of Dell and
Western Publishing
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. Bantam Dell became part of the Random House publishing group in 2008.
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was merged with Bantam Dell in 2010. In 2013, Random House merged with Penguin to form
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.
Fan revivals
After Dell ceased publication, a number of its obscure characters were brought back in independent comics. In August 2016, InDELLible Comics was formed in tribute to the public domain characters orphaned by Dell. In July 2017, ''All-New Popular Comics'' #1 was published, and was #1 in its category on
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upon release. Founded and edited by the team of Jim Ludwig, David Noe and Dærick Gröss Sr., the first issue featured some original characters as well as stories and cameos with many Dell characters.
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'' #2–7 (August 1962–November 1963)
* ''
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* ''Mr. Magoo and Gerald McBoing Boing'' #6 (June 1954)
* '' The Mummy'' (November 1962)
* '' The Music Man'' (January 1963)
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* '' The Naked Prey'' (December 1966)
* '' Nanny and the Professor'' #1–2 (August–October 1970)
* ''Naza, Stone Age Warrior'' #1–9 (November 1963–March 1966)
* ''Neutro'' #1 (January 1967)
* '' New Funnies'' #65–288 (July 1942–April 1962)
* '' The New People'' #1–2 (January–May 1970)
* ''New Terrytoons'' #1–8 (August 1960–May 1962)
* ''Nickel Comics'' #1 (1938)
* '' The Night of the Grizzly'' (December 1966)
* '' None but the Brave'' (June 1965)
* '' Nukla'' #1–4 (October 1965–September 1966)
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* ''Popular Comics'' #1–145 (February 1936–September 1948)
* ''
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'' #25–81 (December 1952–April 1962)
* '' The Prince and the Pauper'' (July 1962)
* ''Private Secretary'' #1–2 (February–May 1963)
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* '' Rawhide'' (June-August 1962)
* '' The Real McCoys'' (May 1962)
* '' Red Ryder'' #1–151 (September 1940–June 1957)
* '' The Rifleman'' #2–12 (January 1960–July 1962) — continued by Gold Key from #13.
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* '' Ring of Bright Water'' (October 1969)
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* ''Tales from the Tomb'' #1 (October 1962)
* '' Tales of Terror'' (February 1963)
* '' Tales of the Green Beret'' #1–5 (5 issues, January 1966-October 1969)
* '' Target: The Corruptors!'' #2–3 (August–December 1962)
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* ''Thirteen Going on Eighteen'' #1–29 (1961–1971) — written by John Stanley
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* '' The Three Stooges Meet Hercules'' (August 1962)
* ''Tiny Tots Comics'' #1 (1943)
* ''Toka, Jungle King'' #1–10 (October 1964–January 1967)
* '' Tom and Jerry Comics'' #60–212 (July 1949–July 1962) — continued by Gold Key from #213.
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* '' The Tomb of Ligeia'' (June 1965)
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'' #1–263 (October 1940–July 1962) — continued by Western, et al.
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* ''War Comics'' #1–4 (1940-1941)
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* '' War-Gods of the Deep'' (September 1965)
* ''
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