CREATOR

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 1962 after 34 issues.

The two title characters are Tweety the canary (sometimes named Tweety Bird or Tweety Pie) and Sylvester the cat, and all the stories focus on Sylvester's neverending attempts to catch the highly elusive Tweety for dinner. All attempts are completely futile, because the cat is outsmarted by the bird - or he outsmarts himself.

The series is based on an animated short cartoon series that ran regularly from 1942 to 1964, but it is still sporadically published.

 

 

MAIN CHARACTERS

Tweety, Sylvester

 

 

GALLERY
(presenting the front covers from 6 random issues)

#4 - 1954
#9 - 1955
#14 - 1956

#22 - 1958
#25 - 1959
#32 - 1961

 

 

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