CREATOR

Name: Western Printing & Lithographic Co. AKA Western Publishing (American comics corporation).
Personal dates: Founded in 1916 by the brothers Edward (1878-1955) and Albert Wadewitz. Publishing of comic books began in 1932. Stopped in 2001.
Other creations: Too numerous to mention here. Please look under Western in the Creators section.
Successors: None.
Comments: The corporation published most of its comic books via subsidiaries, some of which were Dell, Gold Key, and Whitman.
The corporation never used a logo on their comic book front covers.

 

 

MAIN STORY

The series premiered in 1942. Stopped in 1962 after x issues*.

The series contains a massive number of independent funny animal and action stories featuring characters from cartoons, comic strips, films, and more.

In reality, the series was not officially titled Four Color Comics, but this is the generally used term nowadays. A first - and far less numerous - run is known as Four Color Comics Series 1.

* The last issue was numbered #1354, but the total was not as high, because several of the higher numbers were simply skipped and never published. An estimated grand total number of published issues stands at 1321.

 

 

MAIN CHARACTERS

None.

 

 

GALLERY
(presenting the front covers from 6 random issues).
From #37 the issues were published by Western's subsidiaries.

#1 - 1942
#9 - 1942
#15 - 1942

#21 - 1943
#28 - 1943
#36 - 1944

 

 

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