Four Color
#1254 - Diver Dan
(February-April 1962)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1961-11-14
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Dell TV Adventure
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "DIVER DAN, No. 1254." No code number. Copyright 1961 by National Broadcasting Co., Inc. Based on the 1961 "Diver Dan" TV series.
On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date.
On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date.
Diver Dan
Diver Dan / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Diver Dan (photo of Frank Freda); Baron Barracuda; Trigger
- Keywords
- television adaptation
Open and Shut Case
Diver Dan / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Diver Dan; Baron Barracuda; Trigger
- Synopsis
- Baron Barracuda tries to get Dan caught in a giant clam.
- Keywords
- television adaptation
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover in black and white.
Art resembles signed pages by Whitman per Wayne Smith and reported to the Facebook page Comics History Exchange, 24 March 2018.
The Masquerade Ball
Diver Dan / comic story / 32 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Maurice Whitman (signed as III III) (see notes)
- Inks
- Maurice Whitman (signed as III III) (see notes)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Diver Dan; Miss Minerva (mermaid); Skipper; Horace; Goldie; Baron Barracuda; Trigger; Rocky
- Synopsis
- Diver Dan, Minerva, and their fish friends have a party on a wrecked treasure ship.
- Keywords
- television adaptation
Indexer Notes
Whitman's initials located in the first panel of the story. Initials located by Wayne Smith and reported to the Facebook page Comics History Exchange, 24 March 2018.
School Daze
Diver Dan / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Baron Barracuda; Trigger
- Synopsis
- The Baron and Trigger visit their old school teacher, Mrs. Heda Shellback.
- Keywords
- television adaptation
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover and black and white.
Art resembles signed pages by Whitman per Wayne Smith and reported to the Facebook page Comics History Exchange, 24 March 2018.
Eelectricity
Diver Dan / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Baron Barracuda, a barracuda; Trigger, a trigger fish; an electric eel
- Synopsis
- Baron Barracuda and Trigger set a trap for Diver Dan with an electric eel hiding in a treasure chest. The Baron drops his monocle in the chest and is shocked by the eel when he tries to retrieve it.
Indexer Notes
Back cover and in color. This strip is replaced by an advertisement in some editions.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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Diver Dan
Diver Dan -
1.
Open and Shut Case
Diver Dan -
2.
The Masquerade Ball
Diver Dan -
3.
School Daze
Diver Dan -
4.
Eelectricity
Diver Dan -
5.
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This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Pat Conolly
- Gregory Fischer
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Alan Hutchinson
- James Ludwig
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Jim Van Dore
- Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
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