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| Let me bid you a warm welcome to www.dellcomics.co.uk - a website and business dedicated to providing information and reference material as well as supplying some of the loveliest comic books produced. |
Here you will find background information on the Movie comics that Dell produced and you will also be able to purchase them via the sales catalogue and shopping cart. Here you will also be able to see today’s prices for those rare issues and you may well find that you wished that you had kept and cherished them all those years ago, if you once owned them.
Dell Publishing, which got its start in pulp magazines, was a pioneer in comic books. Its first release, The Funnies, is believed to have gone on sale as long ago as 1929 - making it possibly the first periodical in America to specialise in comics not simply reprinted from newspaper strips. Four Colour Comics was a special kind of anthology. Each issue highlighted a single character, such as Donald Duck or Popeye. In 1938, Dell entered an agreement with Western Printing and Lithographing Co., which held rights to do original material using various popular characters from other media. Dell contracted to do comic book versions of those characters. This partnership would last almost a quarter of a century, and by the late 1940s, it made Dell the largest comic book publisher in America.
Four Colour Comics was published very frequently - on average about twice a week during the 1950s - and racked up over 1,300 issues, more than any other American comic book before or since, by the time it ended, in 1962. It is within this series that we find the Dell Movie Comics that I concentrate on within this website. In 1962, the partnership with Western Printing came to an end. Within a couple of years, Dell had regrouped, and was publishing a mixture of original titles, such as Jungle War Stories, and TV/movie adaptations, such as Bewitched and The Incredible Mr. Limpet.
But in the 1960s, as in the '40s, children wanted to read about Superheroes. Without the support of Disney, Warner and the other licensing blockbusters, Dell couldn't make a success of the series and they ceased publishing comics in 1973.
The Movie comics that Dell produced are extremely well done and you may well have once owned some of them and remember titles such as The Vikings, Walter Raleigh and Around the World in Eighty Days. In the UK several of the titles were produced by World Distributors Limited - WDL - see www.wdlcomics.co.uk .
I believe that you will find your visit here to be both educational and inspiring - hopefully inspiring enough for you to wish to purchase some of these lovely comics. I have been selling comic books for over four years now, to hundreds of collectors across the world (I also purchase collections). I stick very strictly to the condition guide provided (see link) and am always extremely keen to develop returning buyers many of whom ask me to provide all of the comics they require including complete collections ... MORE
Please feel free to contact me - see contact button at left of page - either by e-mail or, if you are in a hurry to buy (!), by ‘phone. Thank you very much for visiting this webpage - I really hope to help you get all those issues that you’ve always wanted to own.
This website is one of a family of websites catering for collectors of novels, movies and legendary heroes portrayed in pictures. You will be able to visit all of them via the drop down box on the left or via the portal www.classiccomicstore.com.
Please enjoy your visit and please return again often.
I would be pleased as punch to help you develop your collection(s).
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