Four Color
#252 - Walt Disney's Pinocchio
(November 1949)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1949
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
A Dell Comic
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- Eleanor Packer (managing editor); Alice Nielsen Cobb (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "Walt Disney's PINOCCHIO, No. 252." Code number is W.D.O.S. #252-4911. Copyright 1949 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).
Pinocchio
Pinocchio / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Pinocchio; Jiminy Cricket
- Reprints
-
in Pinocchio (Egmont Ehapa, 1978 series) (1978)
-
[Underwater Birthday Party]
Pinocchio / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Tony Strobl
- Inks
- Tony Strobl
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- Tony Strobl
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Pinocchio; Jiminy Cricket; Sammy Salmon
- Synopsis
- Pinocchio and Jiminy go to Sammy Salmon's birthday party.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black, red, and white.
Pinocchio
Pinocchio / comic story / 32 pages
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Pinocchio; Geppetto; Jiminy Cricket; Figaro (cat); Cleo (goldfish); the Blue Fairy [Wishing Star Fairy]; J. Worthington Foulfellow; Gideon; Stromboli; Lampwick; Monstro
- Synopsis
- Geppetto wishes his puppet was a real boy. The "Wishing Star Fairy" grants his wish. On his way to school, Pinocchio is tricked by J. Worthington Foulfellow and Gideon into joining Stromboli's puppet show. The fairy rescues Pinocchio, but Foulfellow talks Pinocchio into taking a trip to Pleasure Island. At Pleasure Island the boys are turned into donkeys. Jiminy helps Pinocchio off the island before he is completely changed into a donkey. Jiminy and Pinocchio then find Geppetto in the belly of Monstro the whale and Pinocchio must prove his courage by helping Geppetto reach shore safely.
- Reprints
-
in Le Journal de Mickey (Hachette, 1952 series) #32 (4 janvier 1953), #33 (11 janvier 1953), #34 (18 janvier 1953), #35 (25 janvier 1953), #36 (1 février 1953), #37 (8 février 1953), #38 (15 février 1953), #39 (22 février 1953), #40 (1 mars 1953), #41 (8 mars 1953) - in Pinocchio (Egmont Ehapa, 1978 series) (1978)
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Indexer Notes
New version of Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #92. Adapted from the 1940 Disney animated movie "Pinocchio." The fairy is called "The Blue Fairy" in the movie, but in this story is "The Wishing Star Fairy," though she looks the same.
[Cats Follow Jiminy]
Jiminy Cricket / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Tony Strobl
- Inks
- Tony Strobl
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- Tony Strobl
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Jiminy Cricket; Figaro
- Synopsis
- Cats follow Jiminy home after he is thrown into a barrel of pickled herring.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black, red, and white.
[Watermelon Dreams]
Pinocchio / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Tony Strobl
- Inks
- Tony Strobl
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- Tony Strobl
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Pinocchio; Jiminy Cricket
- Synopsis
- Pinocchio has a nightmare in which he is eating an enormous watermelon.
Indexer Notes
Back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Pinocchio
Pinocchio -
1.
[Underwater Birthday Party]
Pinocchio -
2.
Pinocchio
Pinocchio -
3.
[Cats Follow Jiminy]
Jiminy Cricket -
4.
[Watermelon Dreams]
Pinocchio
This issue was modified by, among others
- Chris Boyko
- Merlin Haas
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Jean-Francois Masse
- Keith Alan Morgan
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