Showing posts with label Dell Comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dell Comics. Show all posts

Monday, January 30, 2023

Monday Madness FLYING SAUCERS "Far Out Physical"

To wind up this month of flying saucer fun...
...here's a long-unseen tale with a decidedly-different approach to the aliens!
You'll note that the aliens' world balloons are left blank!
Editor Don (D J) Arneson wrote all the stories in the four-issue run of Dell's Flying Saucers, also making sure the various artists presented a fairly-consistent "look" to the aliens.
(Note: the series ran five issues, but the fifth was a reprint of #1)
In the case of this tale from #1 (1967), Sam Glanzman brought his realistic, natural style to a story using many of the already-established elements of UFO lore.
Trivia: Both Dell and Gold Key produced anthology comics about alien visitors and their kitchenware-shaped vessels during this period.
Gold Key's UFO: Flying Saucers ran for twenty five issues, changing to UFO and Outer Space as of #14!

Monday, December 19, 2022

Monday Madness CHRISTMAS WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Little Boy Blue and Little Girl Green

Here's another early example of a "mash-up"...
...putting existing nursery rhyme characters into a Christmas setting to create new tales!
Written and illustrated by Walt (Pogo) Kelly, this never-reprinted tale from the final Christmas with Mother Goose anthology (Dell's Four Color #253 [1949]) adds new characters that didn't exist in the nursery rhyme.
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Monday, December 12, 2022

Monday Madness CHRISTMAS WITH MOTHER GOOSE "3 Blind Mice and a Christmas Deed"

Sometimes Walt (Pogo) Kelly combined several nursery rhyme or fairy tale characters...
...into something totally-new, like this never-reprinted story from Dell's Four Color Comics: Christmas with Mother Goose #172 (1947)!
Interesting how the mice reference the actual Mother Hubbard nursery rhyme!
"Meta" before it was "meta", eh?

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Monday, December 5, 2022

Monday Madness CHRISTMAS WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Christmas Problem of the Woman in the Shoe"

We presented a Yuletide story of the classic Old Woman Who Lives in a Shoe HERE...
...but it wasn't Walt (Pogo) Kelly's first visit to the unique domicile filled with children!
Written and illustrated by Kelly, this never-reprinted story from Dell's Four Color Comics: Christmas with Mother Goose #90 (1945) was Walt's first take on the concept!
Which one do you think is better?
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Monday, November 28, 2022

Monday Madness CHRISTMAS WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Christmas in the Shoe"

Walt (Pogo) Kelly was Dell's go-to creator for light-hearted kids' stories...
...as this tale from Dell's Four Color Comics #201: Christmas with Mother Goose (1948) amply demonstrates!
Kelly was expert at doing sequels to classic fairy tales, often inserting them into situations never conceived of by the original storytellers, yet making them "feel" totally-natural, as if they were "lost" stories by the original creators!
BTW, this was not the only time Kelly put the characters in a Christmas tale!
You'll see the other one next week!
Note: this was reprinted once, in a magazine, Western/Golden's Christmas Annual #8 (1975), 
This is the only issue which included comics.
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Monday, November 21, 2022

Monday Madness CHRISTMAS WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Tale of Chip-Chop and His Christmas Good Deed"

Besides shoehorning existing fairy tale and nursery rhyme characters into holiday-themes tales...

...Walt (Pogo) Kelly occasionally did stories featuring totally-new characters and situations!
Sadly, this never-reprinted story from Dell's Four Color Comics: Christmas with Mother Goose #201 (1948) is Chip-Chop's only appearance anywhere!

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Thursday, November 17, 2022

Holiday Reading Room SANTA CLAUS FUNNIES "First Noel" or "First Nowell"?

Is it "Noel"...
...as most spell it these days?
From Dell's Santa Claus Funnies #1 (1942), illustrator unknown
Or is it...
..."Nowell", as seen in Dell's Four Color Santa Claus Funnies #91 (1945)?
Illustrated by Arthur E Jameson.
"Nowell" is the English (British) spelling...and the hymn is of British origin.
"Noel" is the French (and other Old Latin-based languages') spelling.
Presumably it became the standard when the hymn was used in hymnals (which used Old Latin verses for many songs, though I've never heard an Old Latin version of  "First Nowell") in the 18th Century.

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Holiday Reading Room SANTA CLAUS FUNNIES "Christmas Carols"

The very first Santa Claus Funnies featured these cool illustrated Christmas carols...
...combining both religious chants...
...traditional folk tunes...
...and contemporary songs!

The artist(s) of these never-reprinted shorts from Dell's Santa Claus Funnies #1 (1942) are unknown.
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