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Issue: Four Color #12
Publication Date: January 1942
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Issues: #12 of 1331 Issues (1412 Printings)
Title: Walt Disney's Bambi
Variant: 10¢ Cover Price
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/15/1942
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 5 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose 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.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.; Standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
Disclose Variants2
Disclose Reprinted In4
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
Disclose Images2
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Ken Hultgren
Inker(s): Ken Hultgren
Colorist(s): ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Bambi
Character(s): Bambi; Thumper; Flower
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Bambi #1 published September 1963
as Walt Disney's Bambi [Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's månedshefte #4/1968 published April 1968
as Walt Disney's Bambi [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Al Hubbard may have assisted on art.
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Bambi and Friends

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ken Hultgren
Inker(s): Ken Hultgren
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Bambi
Character(s): Bambi; Faline; Thumper; Flower; Friend Owl
Synopsis: Illustration of Friend Owl, with head shots of the other characters in each corner.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; color.
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Bambi

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Felix Salten (original story); Chase Craig (adaptation)
Penciller(s): Ken Hultgren
Inker(s): Ken Hultgren
Colorist(s): ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letterer(s): Ken Hultgren
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, nature
Feature(s): Bambi
Character(s): 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.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 64
Disclose 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.
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Great Prince of the Forest

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Ken Hultgren
Inker(s): Ken Hultgren
Colorist(s): ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Bambi
Character(s): Bambi
Synopsis: Outlined against a sunset, the adult Bambi stands on a bluff and surveys his domain.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Bambi #3 [unnamed variant] published April 1956
as [untitled] [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Bambi #1 published September 1963
as Bambi the Great Prince of the Forest [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; color.
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Thumper

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Ken Hultgren
Inker(s): Ken Hultgren
Colorist(s): ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Thumper
Character(s): Thumper
Synopsis: Thumper is "twitterpated" by a girl rabbit.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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