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03 October 2011

Some DELL FOUR COLOR SERIES Full Page Panels

The folks at Western, via Dell and later Gold Key, gave us some nice large panels once in awhile.

This Disney TV production was a favorite of Space Age Geeks like me. Dell issued a oneshot, #86 in December 1957. It featured a TWO PAGE single panel by Tony Sgroi.

From Four Color #1250, July 1961

art by Gerald McCann

from #1309, April 1962, art by Bernie Krigstein

I'm not counting splash pages as full page panels.

Western, or KK, or whatever name they went under, did some nice printing. Can you imagine how muddy these would have been if printed by Charlton?

Gilberton's Classics Illustrated also had some nice full pagers, but toward the end of the 60s their printing got rather shoddy.

Here's a 2 page panel from #1205, by Jack Sparling

Here are some pages from Four Color 1255 by Luis Dominguez . The B/W inside back cover isn't really a story panel, but I included it because it was cool.

Four Color 1301--they got carried away with the padding on this issue. From Feb. 1962, by Jack Sparling.

Here are some nice examples , by Reed Crandall, from FC 1328.

The final panel in FC 822 was a full pager by the great Alex Toth:

Another Disney space episode was given the Dell Four Color treatment in February 1959. Here ia a Full Page Panel, again by Tony Sgroi. FC#954

And finally, a couple from #1256. Art by Vic Prezio

02 October 2011

Lassie's Brave Adventure

from 1958

01 October 2011

Spaceport Diorama

Originally published in 1953 and sold in stores, this beautiful set features a rocket, terminal, control tower, two cars, spacemen, flying saucer, and strange planet terrain .
Print each page on card stock and get crackin', kids!

Ellery Queen TV Blooper

I recently mentioned Ellery Queen on this blog here and here. I've been watching episodes of the 1975 TV series that starred Jum Hutton and David Wayne. It's very entertaining, and is a great source of anachronistic bloopers.

In one episode Ellery is falsely accused of killing a comic book publisher who was putting out an "Ellery Queen" comic against the sleuth's wishes. Set in the late 1940s, we see Ellery scanning comic books for clues.

Look at the back cover of the comicbook.

Yes, it's an ad for Aurora's model UFO from the 1967 TV series "The Invaders"

Nice DOUBLE page panel from 1936

COMICS MAGAZINE, later called The Funny Pages, was first published in 1936
by John Mahon and Bill Cook, former employees of Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson's National Allied Publications (the primary forerunner of DC Comics).
Here is a wonderful double page spread from the first issue. It wasn't part of a story, so I guess it really ISN'T a Full Page Panel, but since it's so eary in comic history, I am including it, so there!