Four Color
#12 - Walt Disney's Bambi
(1942)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- On-sale Date
- 1942-09-15
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
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.
On-sale date is publication date in Library of Congress copyright registration.
This issue has variants:
On-sale date is publication date in Library of Congress copyright registration.
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
Bambi / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Ken Hultgren; Al Hubbard ? (assist, see notes)
- Inks
- Ken Hultgren
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- Ken Hultgren ? (logo design, see notes)
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Bambi; Thumper; Flower
- Reprints
-
in Walt Disney's Bambi (Western, 1963 series) #1 (September 1963) -
in Walt Disney's månedshefte (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1967 series) #4/1968 ([april] 1968)
-
- Keywords
- chipmunks; deer; quail; rabbits; skunks
Indexer Notes
Al Hubbard may have assisted on art.
Cover logo design credit from Todd Klein via his Facebook posting Comics Logos B #6: WALT DISNEY'S BAMBI, on 23 March 2021. Klein states he seen the logo on one of the Bambi movie posters and perhaps was done by someone from Disney Studios or cover artist Ken Hultgren.
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[Bambi and Friends]
Bambi / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Bambi; Faline; Thumper; Flower; Friend Owl
- Synopsis
- Illustration of Friend Owl, with head shots of the other characters in each corner.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; color.
Bambi
Bambi / comic story / 64 pages
- Script
- Chase Craig (adaptation); Felix Salten (original story)
- Pencils
- Ken Hultgren; Al Hubbard ? (assist, see notes)
- Inks
- Ken Hultgren
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- Ken Hultgren
- Genre
- adventure; animal; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- 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]
Bambi / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Bambi
- Synopsis
- Outlined against a sunset, the adult Bambi stands on a bluff and surveys his domain.
- Reprints
- in Walt Disney's Bambi (Dell, 1956 series) #3 (April 1956)
- in Walt Disney's Bambi (Western, 1963 series) #1 (September 1963)
-
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; color.
[Thumper]
Thumper / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Thumper
- Synopsis
- Thumper is "twitterpated" by a girl rabbit.
Indexer Notes
Back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Bambi -
1.
[Bambi and Friends]
Bambi -
2.
Bambi
Bambi -
3.
[Great Prince of the Forest]
Bambi -
4.
[Thumper]
Thumper
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Chris Boyko
- Pat Conolly
- Merlin Haas
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Jean-Francois Masse
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
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