(1942)

Dell, 1942 Series
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Price:
0.10 USD
Pages:
68
Indicia frequency:
?
Indicia Publisher:
Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
Editing:
?
Format:
Color; standard Golden Age and later Silver Age formats; saddle-stitched; newsprint; was an On-Going Series

Issue Notes

Indicia title is "WALT DISNEY'S BAMBI, No. 12." No code number. Copyright 1941, 1942 by Walt Disney Productions. Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994). Terry Meister has a copy which is identical to the indexed one except that it does not have the words "Four Color Comic No. 12" anywhere on the cover. It is not known why the variant was printed or how it was distributed.


Bambi (Table of Contents)

Bambi / cover / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:
Ken Hultgren
Inks:
Ken Hultgren
Colors:
? (Western Publishing Production Shop)

Content Information

Characters:
Bambi; Thumper; Flower

Indexer Notes

Al Hubbard may have assisted on art.


[Bambi and Friends] (Table of Contents)

Bambi / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Ken Hultgren
Inks:
Ken Hultgren
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Characters:
Bambi; Faline; Thumper; Flower; Friend Owl
Synopsis:
Illustration of Friend Owl, with head shots of the other characters in each corner.
Reprinted:
  • in Bambi (Dell, 1956 series) #3
  • in Bambi (Gold Key, 1963 series) #10087-309

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover; color.


Bambi (Table of Contents)

Bambi / comic story / 64 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Felix Salten (original story); Chase Craig (adaptation)
Pencils:
Ken Hultgren
Inks:
Ken Hultgren
Colors:
? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters:
Ken Hultgren

Content Information

Genre:
animal; adventure
Characters:
Bambi; Faline; Thumper; Flower; Friend Owl; Great Stag; Ronno
Synopsis:
The adventures of Bambi and his friends as he grows from a new-born fawn into his birthright as Prince of the Forest.

Indexer Notes

Al Hubbard may have assisted on art. Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Based on the 1942 Walt Disney animated feature "Bambi," which was adapted from the 1928 novel "Bambi, A Life in the Woods" by Felix Salten. A sequel appears in Bambi's Children Four Color #30.


[Great Prince of the Forest] (Table of Contents)

Bambi / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:
Ken Hultgren
Inks:
Ken Hultgren
Colors:
? (Western Publishing Production Shop)

Content Information

Characters:
Bambi
Synopsis:
Outlined against a sunset, the adult Bambi stands on a bluff and surveys his domain.
Reprinted:
  • in Bambi (Dell, 1956 series) #3
  • in Bambi (Gold Key, 1963 series) #10087-309

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover; color.


Thumper (Table of Contents)

Thumper / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:
Ken Hultgren
Inks:
Ken Hultgren
Colors:
? (Western Publishing Production Shop)

Content Information

Characters:
Thumper
Synopsis:
Thumper is "twitterpated" by a girl rabbit.

Indexer Notes

Back cover.


Editing

Table of Contents

  1. 1. [Bambi and Friends]
    Bambi
  2. 2. Bambi
    Bambi
  3. 3. [Great Prince of the Forest]
    Bambi
  4. 4. Thumper
    Thumper
This issue was most recently modified by:
  • Merlin Haas
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
  • Gene Reed
  • Roger A. Budnick
  • John P. Selegue
  • Merlin Haas
  • Ken Lemons
  • Chris Launder
  • Jim Walls
  • Terry Vraspir
  • Gary Perlman
  • Jerry Hillegas
  • Craig Delich
  • James Ludwig
  • Ray Bottorff Jr
  • Kenneth Blair
  • Mike Nielsen
  • David Porta
  • Matthew Torrance
  • Ken Kwilinski
  • Gary L. Watson
  • Gregg Whitmore
  • Max Capp
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Lou Mazzella
  • Rodney Hinkle
  • Jan Roar Hansen
  • Donald Dale Milne
  • Karl Wilcox
  • Darrel McCann
  • Peter Croome