Name: Dell
Publishing Co. (American comics corporation). Personal dates: Founded in 1921.
Stopped in 1973. Formed partnership with Western
Publishing from 1938 to 1962. First editor was
Harry Steeger.
Other creations: Too numerous to mention
here. Please look under Dell in the Creators
section.
Successors: None.
Comments: Dell divided their comic book
activities between original stories and stories
based on films.
MAIN STORY
The series premiered in
1954. Stopped in 1965 after 35 issues.
The series consists of a mixture of 'cartoons,
jokes, gags, funny stories' according to most of the front
covers. It sprung from another - more text oriented -
Dell series titled 1,000 Jokes, that was published from 1938 to
1969 (129 issues).
MAIN CHARACTERS
None.
GALLERY (presenting
the front covers from 6 random issues)