His favorite comic books growing up were Uncle Scrooge by Western Publishing and Little Lulu comics from Dell Comics ( Western Publishing ), and his sister's collection of MAD comics and magazines.

Dell Comics published several Daffy Duck comic books, beginning in Four Color Comics # 457, # 536, and # 615 and then continuing as Daffy # 4-17 ( 1956 – 59 ), then as Daffy Duck # 18-30 ( 1959 – 62 ).

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Berg's work also appeared in Dell Comics and Fawcett Publications, typically on humorous back-up features.

Western Publishing's Big Little Book series based most of its Mickey volumes on the strip ; Dell Publishing's Walt Disney's Comics and Stories serialized stories from the strip through 1948.

* In comics, outside of a comic book adaptation of the film Jason and the Argonauts published by Dell Comics in 1963 as part of their Movie Classics series, there were 2 series that featured The Argonauts alongside Jason.

From 1938 to 1962, Western's properties were published under a partnership with Dell Comics, which also handled the distribution and financing of the comic books.

Prior to 1962, in addition to comics published through Dell, Western published some comics under its own name, particularly giveaways such as March of Comics and the annual kite safety title ( which featured an array of licensed characters ) published over a span of 32 years for power utility companies.

* Mark Evanier on the relationship between Dell Comics and Gold Key Comics

Western Publications produced a comic book about Tweety and Sylvester entitled Tweety and Sylvester, first in Dell Comics Four Color series # 406, 489, and 524, then in their own title from Dell Comics (# 4-37, 1954 – 62 ), then later from Gold Key Comics (# 1-102, 1963 – 72 ).

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* Dell Comics: 1952-1962 ( Four Color Comics # 386, 456 and 495 ; # 4-39 )

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* Between 1953 and 1955 Dell Comics featured adaptations of six Mowgli stories in three issues (# 487, # 582 and # 620 ).

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A decade earlier, Max Gaines had been one of the pioneers of the comic book form, with Eastern Color Printing's proto-comic book Funnies on Parade, and with Dell Publishing's Famous Funnies: A Carnival of Comics, considered by historians the first true American comic book.

A single issue comic book adaptation of the film was published by Dell Comics.

In 1977, Shaffer left SNL for a few months to co-star with Greg Evigan in A Year at the Top, a short-lived CBS sitcom in which Shaffer and Evigan play two musicians from Idaho who relocate to Hollywood where they are regularly tempted by a famous promoter ( who is actually the devil's son ), played by Gabriel Dell, to sell their souls in exchange for a year of stardom.

* Ellery Queen stories appeared in issues of Crackajack Funnies beginning in 1940, a four issue series by Superior Comics in 1949, two issues of a short-lived series by Ziff-Davis in 1952, and three comics published by Dell in 1962.

* Harvey Comics, which had several other comic strip reprint comics running at the time, picked up Mutt and Jeff from Dell, and this version of the comic ran to 1965 for a total of 33 issues, plus two short-lived spinoff titles: Mutt & Jeff Jokes and Mutt & Jeff New Jokes.

Brain Boy was a short-lived superhero comic published by Dell Comics in the early 1960s.

Frankenstein was the main character in a short-lived attempt by Dell Comics to publish superhero comic books based on the Universal Pictures monsters.

She became a voracious reader of literature, Dell pocketbook mysteries, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Canadian animal stories, and comic books.

Not reprints are seven Dell four-color Prince Valiant comic books (# 567, 650, 699, 719, 788, 848, 900 ) drawn by Bob Fuji, writer unknown.

Dell Comics published 35 issues of an I Love Lucy comic book between 1954 and 1962 including two try-out Four Color issues (# 535 and # 559 ).

Eternity Comics in the early 1990s issued comic books that reprinted the strip and Dell comic book series.

The original series has spawned: several successful novelty western / folk albums from 1962 – 1965 ; three dozen Dell and Gold Key comic books from 1962 through 1970 ; Jim Beam Whiskey Ponderosa Ranch decanters 1964 – 1966 ; a series of " Big-Little " books from 1966 – 1969 ; Revel Bonanza model character sets from 1966 – 1968 ; a chain of Bonanza and Ponderosa steakhouses from 1963 – present ; the Lake Tahoe-based " Ponderosa " theme park from 1967 – 2004 ; a line of American Character action figures in 1966 – 1967 ; Aladdin lunch buckets and thermos bottles in 1966 – 1968 ; View Master slide sets from 1965 – 1973 ; Ponderosa tin cups from 1967 – 2004 ; a series of Hamilton collector plates in 1989 – 1990 ; and most recently, Breyer Fiftieth Anniversary Ponderosa Stable sets, with horses and Cartwright figures in 2009 – 2011.

The strip was reprinted in a long-running series of Cupples & Leon books ( 1927 – 1937 ), Big Little Books and comic books for Dell Comics ( starting in 1936 ) and later, the American Comics Group ( 1947 – 1948 ).

There were Roy Rogers action figures, cowboy adventure novels, and playsets, as well as a comic strip, a long-lived Dell Comics comic book series ( Roy Rogers Comics ) written by Gaylord Du Bois, and a variety of marketing successes.

Kelly began a series of comic books based on fairy tales and nursery rhymes along with annuals celebrating Christmas and Easter for Dell Comics.

Kelly's work with Dell continued well into the successful run of the newspaper strip in the early 1950s, ending after 16 issues of Pogo Possum ( each with all-new material ) in a dispute over the republication of Kelly's early Pogo and Albert stories in a comic book titled The Pogo Parade.

Also in 1989, Eclipse Books began publication of a hardcover series called Walt Kelly's Pogo and Albert collecting the early Dell Pogo comic book stories in color, starting with the characters ' first appearance in 1943.

Film historian Leonard Maltin asserted, “ Watch this film, and you'll know why Janssen became a fugitive !” A comic book adaptation of the movie was published as Four Color # 1176 by Dell.

Another Dondi comic book, with stories closer to the strip's style, was published as Dell Four Color # 1276.

Messmer himself pursued the Sunday Felix comic strips until their discontinuance in 1943, when he began eleven years of writing and drawing Felix comic books for Dell Comics that were released every other month.

* Eugene Raskin, Architecturally Speaking, 2nd edition, a Delta book, Dell ( 1966 ), trade paperback, 129 pages

In his book Dell ’ Istoria della Sacra Religione et Illustrissima Militia di San Giovanni Gierosolimitano (), written between 1594 and 1602, Giacomo Bosio endorses the notion that Maltese descended from Carthaginian.

In his book Dell ’ Istoria della Sacra Religione et Illustrissima Militia di San Giovanni Gierosolimitano (), written between 1594 and 1602, Giacomo Bosio writes that when the cornerstone of Valletta was placed, a group of Maltese elders said " Iegi zimen en fel wardia col sceber raba iesue uquie " ( Which in modern Maltese reads, " Jiġi żmien li fil-Wardija Sciberras kull xiber raba ’ jiswa uqija ," and in English, " There will come a time when every piece of land on Sciberras Hill will be worth its weight in gold ").

* Database and cover gallery for the Dell Comic book based on the TV show

A Brief History of Time ( subtitled " From the Big Bang to Black Holes ") is a popular-science book written by British physicist Stephen Hawking and first published by the Bantam Dell Publishing Group in 1988.

Dell's 1999 book, written in collaboration with Catherine Fredman, Direct from Dell: Strategies That Revolutionized an Industry, is an account of his early life, his company's founding, growth and missteps, as well as lessons learned.

Dell's 1999 book, Direct from Dell: Strategies That Revolutionized an Industry, is an account of his early life, his company's founding, growth and missteps, as well as lessons learned.

In the children's fiction book, Thunder Rolling in the Mountains, by Newbery medalist Scott O ' Dell and Elizabeth Hall, the story of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce is told by Joseph's daughter, Sound of Running Feet.

So highly regarded was his work that the introduction ( likely written by Dell editor Oskar Lebeck ) to Fairy Tale Parade # 1 spoke of him as " the artist who drew all the wonderful pictures in this book ".

Disney historian Jim Korkis reports the notion of taking the unmade feature and adapting the storyline for publication as a comic book occurred when Dell Comics editor Oskar Lebeck " was given permission to look through the Disney files of cartoon ideas that were shelved.

The series became a comic book ( initially published by All-American Publications and later by DC Comics, Dell Comics and Harvey Comics ), as well as cartoons, films, merchandising and reprints.