Friday, July 27, 2012

Seven Dwarfs 1949 Four Color Comic (A Pirate's Tale)

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Walt Disney's Seven Dwarfs comic book was published in May 1949. Original retail price: 10 cents. This Dell Four Color Comic (# 227) has a total of 36 pages including the covers. It contains two separate longer stories and three shorter one-pagers.

The first short is found on the front endpaper and is all about Bashful.



The most involved tale is The Seven Dwarfs and the Pirate. It takes place on the high seas and includes the Old Witch, a talking parrot named Yellow-Beak, and even King Neptune. Sample pages:

 





Illustrations and text copyright Disney, 1949. Posted here for historical documentation purposes only.


The other story of length in this comic is The Seven Dwarfs and Humpty Dumpty. We not only meet the nursery rhyme egg and his little brother but also the giant from Mickey and the Beanstalk.

10 comments:

  1. Great! Thanks! Hope we get to see the other story one day... (Hint-hint!)

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  2. Strange that Snow White is dressed almost completely in red! These comic book stories are always so odd, which is partly what makes them fascinating.

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  3. Thank you! I love these old stories and the way they used to mix characters from a lot of different films and tales. Remember the one about Thumper, the Giant and the Seven Dwarfs? Really funny!

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    1. Yes, that was quite an involved story of Thumper and the Seven Dwarfs. They out did themselves on that one! :)

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  4. I'm sure many of your readers realize that this 1949 story with the Seven Dwarfs is a reworking of the first original Disney comic book, Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold (Four Color published in 1942 and drawn by Jack Hannah and famed Disney Duck comic artist/writer Carl Barks. (Strangely, an adaptation of the Yellow Beak story even appeared in an issue of the non-Disney comic book, Woody Woodpecker #76 (1963)!) The art in your Seven Dwarfs story has been attributed to Tony Strobl but I dunno. Despite not being anywhere near as good (in story or art) as the Thumper Meets the Seven Dwarfs article you and Anderson so rightly praise, it's fun. Thanks for sharing it with so many Disney (and Seven Dwarfs) fans who otherwise wouldn't get to see it.

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    1. Thanks Jim for sharing more about this comic. Your input is much appreciated!

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    2. Thank YOU for your fantastic blog!

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  5. oops I forgot to add the Four Color reference for Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold, it was Four Color # 9 (obviously one of the earliest comic books in the Four Color series; The Seven Dwarfs comic you posted is Four Color # 227!)

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