1937-38 Hank Porter Comic Strip

Distributed by King Features Syndicate, this Snow White Sunday newspaper comic strip ran for twenty weeks, from December 12, 1937 to April 24, 1938. It actually began nine days prior to the film's colossal premiere at the Cathay Circle Theatre on December 21, 1937 and a whopping month and a half or more before the movie's general public release in February 1938. By the time the film actually appeared in theaters, devoted readers would have already been familiar with the princess, prince and queen. They'd also have had a silhouetted glimpse of the dwarfs marching home from their diamond mine.


-December 12, 1937 - week one...

- December 19, 1937 - week two...

- December 26, 1937 - week three...

- January 2, 1938 - week four...

- January 9, 1938 - week five...

- January 16, 1938 - week six...

- January 23, 1938 - week seven...

- January 30, 1938 - week eight...

- February 6, 1938 - week nine...

- February 13, 1938 - week ten...

- February 20, 1938 - week eleven...

- February 27, 1938 - week twelve...

- March 6, 1938 - week thirteen...

- March 13, 1938 - week fourteen...

- March 20, 1938 - week fifteen...

- March 27, 1938 - week sixteen...

- April 3, 1938 - week seventeen...

- April 10, 1938 - week eighteen...

- April 17, 1938 - week nineteen...

- April 24, 1938 - week twenty...

Comics illustrations and text copyright Disney. Posted here for historical documentation purposes only.
Images courtesy of the Thom Buchanan collection via The Pictorial Arts blog.

The strip was illustrated by Hank Porter, a very talented artist, though maybe lesser-known than some of the other Studio names. Hank worked in the Disney Publicity Art Department from 1936 until 1950. The comic strip was inked by Bob Grant. The story was authored by Merrill de Maris, one of several writers credited with the Snow White screenplay.