I remember as a kid reading Overstreet and Four Color was so intriguing, even for a superhero kid like me, as every issue merited it’s own entry and price. And even then I was like Action and Detective will never get close to that issue number. It would be quite daunting to collect ‘em all.
@@MintHunterComics I like the niche history of it all! And this is a great example of a subject I was passingly aware of that I now feel I know more about just making my way through your video! Thanks 😁💪
Love this video - quick correction on the Uncle Scrooge books (I'm less than 30 issues away from a complete run - there are some COOL things in this series) The "first" issue of a dedicated Uncle Scrooge in the #4, but the first three are not based on APPEARANCES, they are based on the TITLE being Uncle Scrooge, but the SERIES being Four Color. What this means is that the two appearances you show prior to Four Color 386 (Uncle Scrooge #1) are actually Donald Duck Issues. For Uncle Scrooge: Four Color 386 (Uncle Scrooge #1) Four Color 456 (Uncle Scrooge #2) Four Color 495 (Uncle Scrooge #3) Uncle Scrooge #4 (Uncle Scrooge #4 ... and so on) Those Donald Ducks? Well ... that title "started" with "issue" 26 = with issues 1-25 being other series - MOSTLY Four Color, but also a nn and a title called "Large Feature Comics"... Yeah... I'm a bit of a fan of these :) Wonderful that you covered them. It's one of my favourite series because it really captures what was happening in the culture at the time. MANY of these books will very likely never be reprinted because of licensing and such. So it is definitely a commitment to try and collect them. To make it even more fun - there are TWO series of Four Color comics - the first series wasn't that many books.
Right you are! There were three uncle scrooge four color books (but were still four color) so when it was time for his own title they just continued off of that! Cheers my friend! Cool collection!
Nice! As an owner of more than a few Four Color comics, very happy to see this. For those wondering why Dell stopped in 1962 with this series, they split from Western Publishing which owned the myriad of licenses composing so many of the 4 Color books. Dell continued to do movie, TV adaptations, as well as forays into horror and superheroes, while Western Publishing turned their licenses over to their in house Gold Key Comics.
The Carl Barks-stories from "Four Colour Comics" (and "Scrooge" + "Donald Duck") in Danish "Donald Duck & Co."-magazines are (like) "keys" here in Denmark.
Absolutely love the comic history videos you do and all the research and references you employ as backup. I know they involve a lot of work for you, but man this stuff fascinates at least a solid minority of us out here who don’t care as much about variant jockstraps worn by Venom or Steve Ditko’s collectible snot residue. You should be a teacher, James, as you really have a gift for communicating in such inspiring and engaging ways. You take little known or virtually unknown facts and figures and translate them into blizzards of mind candy. My only complaint is that this video and others like it aren’t longer. Keep ‘em coming, my friend. -Glen
So these are actually my favorite videos to make! sadly they don't do nearly as well. I'd love to do more vids like this but they just don't take off! I'm going to continue to do them anyway
Trust me, I have done extremely comprehensive research on this discrepancy between the popularity of your videos and it has taken me years (i.e. seconds) to reach an absolute scientific conclusion regarding same. I can now unequivocally and unconditionally state that these comic history videos you produce are fantastic and you should continue doing them. In other words, you and I and anyone else who enjoys them are right and the folks who don’t are WRONG! This is an undisputed fact (which I just made up) and you can’t argue with facts! The end.
I really think content like this is what's going to make your channel stand out from the rest. Sure everyone loves seeing new pick ups and cool collecting videos, but a deep dive video about a part of comics history most people probably don't about is, imo, more interesting. Keep going with this content man, it's really good!
Very nice video. There's a lot of relatively "unknown" comics in the Dells (and Gold Keys) that people miss when they're out hunting. It's surprising how many people have no clue where some very iconic characters first appeared - First Jetsons comes to mind.
This is great stuff James, informative and fascinating. And what a range of titles and genres! A fan could dedicate their whole collecting life to tracking down all the issues.
I have a huge stack of gold key and dell comics I really have got to sort through and catalog all of them haha, these books always have awesome covers, great video as always!!
Thanks for the video ! I have always enjoyed ducks and four colors as much as the super heroes, I have a fair number but always on the lookout for more.
That’s crazy. What an informative video! I liked it. I see these comics all over eBay. I might set myself a challenge this year. You gotta love old school Disney characters. Thanks
My impression of Four Color has always been the literal definition of pop culture. Dell was publishing weekly books with chart topper cartoon and movie characters, in a haphazard approach, slapping on whatever number was next. It was meant to be a comic for what today's kids liked most.
@@MintHunterComics I really like learning about old & new comic book history. I've been reading comics since the mid 70's and I have to admit I didn't know about the history of "Four Color Comics". I enjoyed the chance to learn something new. :)
I'm about 700 issues into the 4 Color Volume 2 Run. It's fun. I've found at least one dell book that was had a 4 digit issue number blocked over in black on the cover. I'm assuming Dell was originally going to use it as a FC Issue but gave it it's own title instead. I've also picked up a piece of OA from Spaceman #2 which was originally supposed to be FC 1340 and is noted as such at the top of the page. So much history in this series. I have been collecting them for 25 years since I first found out that Turok #1 and #2 were actually Dell FC 596 and 656. THANKS VALIANT!
Great timing on this comic and y of Del and four color comics I just so happen to have been in an antique store and found a 1959 copy of porky pig that I now own thank you for the explanation on the history
Would love if you can do a video on page colour and quality with examples. I can never seem to find anything online except for the old owl grades. Content great as always
Great Video! I like the Analogy of it being Harder to Collect than the Evil Ernie Octagons. I wanted to Collect some of them, unfortunetly, there is only 1 of each, and they are all spoken for! And Most all by My Friend! I'm not sure if he has all of them, but he was really close to having them all.
Didn't know how the numbering worked at all but now that makes sense. My older comics are some of my favorites. From my Winsor McCay collection of little Nemo and sammy sneeze from 1904-1925ish then my Terry and the pirates collection from the 30s and 40s to my dells and gold keys from the 50s to the 60s like Donald Duck, Henry, Timmy the timid ghost and my favorite comic I own Jonny Quest #1 from 1964. Good stuff I love along side my horror comics and underground Indies.
Thanks for the great vid! Found some pretty amazing condition TUROK 5 and 6 copies that took me down this rabbit hole. But now I’m worried I left a terrible condition #3 behind lol. But still trying to find my way into some proper collecting. Gives me something to do at coastal antique malls while my wife is looking around. Most stuff is in atrocious condition and overpriced. Probably picked over a ton before I go through too.
FOUR COLOR IS THE HARD TO FIND TARZAN, LONE RANGER, DISNEY AND TV SHOWS . THESE ARE SO UNDERRATED WITH BARKS AND WALT KELLY TRUE MASTER WRITERS. GREAT TOPIC NEVER TALKED ABOUT THANK YOU. REMBER MY OFFER WOODCHUCK.
Wow, that's a not a coincidence, I just watched an older video of yours where you talked about the rare variant of Hulk #377(you didn't mention the second variant of 377). You made this video and YT "scanned this video" and then recommended me an older video by you; with Hulk #377 in it. I wonder how many videos from other YTers YT will recommend tomorrow with Hulk #377 in it.
Man, I've bought and sold so many copies of Hulk 377 3rd print. Just never found one in good enough condition to want to add it to my PC. Why are they all so banged up?!
By far the hardest part of collecting this series is the fact you can't go to the "four color" section in your LCS and sadly most LCS's don't know the difference between Popeye 113 and Dell Four Color 113 (which incidentally is the first original Popeye stories in comics.) The first 100 issues actually had "Four Color Comics" printed very small on the cover. I wonder why they decided to forgo that on future issues? It's not as if it detracted from the title within. Maybe they knew they would make the life of a collector miserable in the future.
Hey I wanted to say thank you for doing this important video. I don't think that Dell comics get the love that they deserve. I'm trying to collect all the Four Color comics volume 2 and I have messaged other podcasters asking them to make a video highlighting Dell comics and I have even found an owner of my LCS who never heard of them. The fans of gratuitous violence in the MCU are a dime a dozen where Dell collectors are a specialized market. Don't get me wrong, l love the others too but I'm afraid the history is being lost in the shuffle. I've had a Facebook member on one of the comic groups who said they weren't real comics and he would throw them in the trash if he was given any as a gift including the Four Color 16 Porky pig and my 386 Uncle Scrooge. I hope to see more from you and would be more than happy to assist you with any information that you could need to do so
Hey Jim do you have any four color comics for sale? I'm one of those nuts trying to put together an entire run of volume 2 and I've gotten a good chunk done in the past two years with many of the key issues you discussed and it's at the point to where I don't collect other titles any more. I'm all in with the Dell four color volume 2 where I can focus all my attention to that solely. I also must say that these books don't get the love or respect they deserve in the comic community. I've had an asshole on Facebook say they're not real comics and if they were given to him he would have thrown them in the trash. I'm sure the guy who made that idiotic statement probably read his first comic book in 2008 when he saw iron man in the theaters and probably laughed at anyone who read comics before that time calling them geeks or whatever, total bandwagoner. I'm rambling on so I would love to request an even more in depth video on the Four color series in the future and I'm local to you and would be more than happy to help if you decide to do so
I remember as a kid reading Overstreet and Four Color was so intriguing, even for a superhero kid like me, as every issue merited it’s own entry and price. And even then I was like Action and Detective will never get close to that issue number. It would be quite daunting to collect ‘em all.
Quite daughnting but a superrrr fun and rewarding challenge!
I am telling you right now I cannot wait to check out this video. Love this era
I hope you enjoy! These type of videos are my fav to make
@@MintHunterComics I like the niche history of it all! And this is a great example of a subject I was passingly aware of that I now feel I know more about just making my way through your video!
Thanks 😁💪
This is fantastic research dude, I really appreciate the time you take for the community. Some of the covers are absolutely fantastic.
I'm glad you enjoy! Love making these
These comic history mini documentaries are by far some of my favorite!
More like this, I love the history aspect of this video! Yes please
Glad you enjoy!
Love this video - quick correction on the Uncle Scrooge books (I'm less than 30 issues away from a complete run - there are some COOL things in this series)
The "first" issue of a dedicated Uncle Scrooge in the #4, but the first three are not based on APPEARANCES, they are based on the TITLE being Uncle Scrooge, but the SERIES being Four Color.
What this means is that the two appearances you show prior to Four Color 386 (Uncle Scrooge #1) are actually Donald Duck Issues.
For Uncle Scrooge:
Four Color 386 (Uncle Scrooge #1)
Four Color 456 (Uncle Scrooge #2)
Four Color 495 (Uncle Scrooge #3)
Uncle Scrooge #4 (Uncle Scrooge #4 ... and so on)
Those Donald Ducks? Well ... that title "started" with "issue" 26 = with issues 1-25 being other series - MOSTLY Four Color, but also a nn and a title called "Large Feature Comics"...
Yeah... I'm a bit of a fan of these :)
Wonderful that you covered them. It's one of my favourite series because it really captures what was happening in the culture at the time. MANY of these books will very likely never be reprinted because of licensing and such. So it is definitely a commitment to try and collect them. To make it even more fun - there are TWO series of Four Color comics - the first series wasn't that many books.
Right you are! There were three uncle scrooge four color books (but were still four color) so when it was time for his own title they just continued off of that! Cheers my friend! Cool collection!
Great catch my friend. I was just about to mention this mistake as well. Us Uncle Scrooge and Disney Duck lovers need to keep the information correct.
Nice! As an owner of more than a few Four Color comics, very happy to see this. For those wondering why Dell stopped in 1962 with this series, they split from Western Publishing which owned the myriad of licenses composing so many of the 4 Color books. Dell continued to do movie, TV adaptations, as well as forays into horror and superheroes, while Western Publishing turned their licenses over to their in house Gold Key Comics.
The Carl Barks-stories from "Four Colour Comics" (and "Scrooge" + "Donald Duck") in Danish "Donald Duck & Co."-magazines are (like) "keys" here in Denmark.
Carl Barks is the DUDE
Absolutely love the comic history videos you do and all the research and references you employ as backup. I know they involve a lot of work for you, but man this stuff fascinates at least a solid minority of us out here who don’t care as much about variant jockstraps worn by Venom or Steve Ditko’s collectible snot residue. You should be a teacher, James, as you really have a gift for communicating in such inspiring and engaging ways. You take little known or virtually unknown facts and figures and translate them into blizzards of mind candy. My only complaint is that this video and others like it aren’t longer. Keep ‘em coming, my friend. -Glen
So these are actually my favorite videos to make! sadly they don't do nearly as well. I'd love to do more vids like this but they just don't take off! I'm going to continue to do them anyway
Trust me, I have done extremely comprehensive research on this discrepancy between the popularity of your videos and it has taken me years (i.e. seconds) to reach an absolute scientific conclusion regarding same. I can now unequivocally and unconditionally state that these comic history videos you produce are fantastic and you should continue doing them. In other words, you and I and anyone else who enjoys them are right and the folks who don’t are WRONG! This is an undisputed fact (which I just made up) and you can’t argue with facts! The end.
Well done. Nice change of pace content that most younger collectors don't know about.
I really think content like this is what's going to make your channel stand out from the rest. Sure everyone loves seeing new pick ups and cool collecting videos, but a deep dive video about a part of comics history most people probably don't about is, imo, more interesting. Keep going with this content man, it's really good!
Honestly the research project and essays are my favorite part
Awesome video essay! Much appreciated!
Glad you enjoyed!
Very nice video. There's a lot of relatively "unknown" comics in the Dells (and Gold Keys) that people miss when they're out hunting. It's surprising how many people have no clue where some very iconic characters first appeared - First Jetsons comes to mind.
People don't even look in those bins!
@@MintHunterComics that's how I found a Space Ghost #1, Passed over at antique shop for probably years because people saw gold key and didn't bother.
Great video learned a lot and now I may try and get some of these! thank you!
Good luck hunting!
This is great stuff James, informative and fascinating. And what a range of titles and genres! A fan could dedicate their whole collecting life to tracking down all the issues.
Really well researched and excellent production!
I have a huge stack of gold key and dell comics I really have got to sort through and catalog all of them haha, these books always have awesome covers, great video as always!!
Thanks for the video ! I have always enjoyed ducks and four colors as much as the super heroes, I have a fair number but always on the lookout for more.
Glad you enjoyed!
That’s crazy. What an informative video! I liked it. I see these comics all over eBay. I might set myself a challenge this year. You gotta love old school Disney characters. Thanks
My impression of Four Color has always been the literal definition of pop culture. Dell was publishing weekly books with chart topper cartoon and movie characters, in a haphazard approach, slapping on whatever number was next. It was meant to be a comic for what today's kids liked most.
Great video, James!
Love the knowledge your kicking’, make more vids like this one. I truly learned something new today, especially the lost issues,. That’s mad crazy 😛
Fascinating comic history, cheers!
Great info as usual!
Glad you think so!
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it
@@MintHunterComics I really like learning about old & new comic book history. I've been reading comics since the mid 70's and I have to admit I didn't know about the history of "Four Color Comics". I enjoyed the chance to learn something new. :)
Great research and once again, time to go hunting for some of these.
I'm about 700 issues into the 4 Color Volume 2 Run. It's fun. I've found at least one dell book that was had a 4 digit issue number blocked over in black on the cover. I'm assuming Dell was originally going to use it as a FC Issue but gave it it's own title instead. I've also picked up a piece of OA from Spaceman #2 which was originally supposed to be FC 1340 and is noted as such at the top of the page. So much history in this series. I have been collecting them for 25 years since I first found out that Turok #1 and #2 were actually Dell FC 596 and 656. THANKS VALIANT!
Great timing on this comic and y of Del and four color comics I just so happen to have been in an antique store and found a 1959 copy of porky pig that I now own thank you for the explanation on the history
I somehow wish you could turn out more content lol good stuff man🤙🏼
Got a second video dropping TODAY at 5 pm!
Love this video. Thanks for the education
One of ur best videos.
Glad you think so!
Would love if you can do a video on page colour and quality with examples. I can never seem to find anything online except for the old owl grades.
Content great as always
always a great video !!
Great Video! I like the Analogy of it being Harder to Collect than the Evil Ernie Octagons. I wanted to Collect some of them, unfortunetly, there is only 1 of each, and they are all spoken for! And Most all by My Friend! I'm not sure if he has all of them, but he was really close to having them all.
Didn't know how the numbering worked at all but now that makes sense. My older comics are some of my favorites. From my Winsor McCay collection of little Nemo and sammy sneeze from 1904-1925ish then my Terry and the pirates collection from the 30s and 40s to my dells and gold keys from the 50s to the 60s like Donald Duck, Henry, Timmy the timid ghost and my favorite comic I own Jonny Quest #1 from 1964. Good stuff I love along side my horror comics and underground Indies.
Very interesting comic book history.
Ya got me looking at some Four Color Books now :)
Thanks for the great vid! Found some pretty amazing condition TUROK 5 and 6 copies that took me down this rabbit hole. But now I’m worried I left a terrible condition #3 behind lol. But still trying to find my way into some proper collecting. Gives me something to do at coastal antique malls while my wife is looking around. Most stuff is in atrocious condition and overpriced. Probably picked over a ton before I go through too.
Cool video! Great topic!
Who won the give away for the label?
Video dropping tomorrow morning!
@@MintHunterComics let’s go
Are you going to steel city con in April
I'm not sadly
Thanks. I found it very interesting.
FOUR COLOR IS THE HARD TO FIND TARZAN, LONE RANGER, DISNEY AND TV SHOWS . THESE ARE SO UNDERRATED WITH BARKS AND WALT KELLY TRUE MASTER WRITERS. GREAT TOPIC NEVER TALKED ABOUT THANK YOU. REMBER MY OFFER WOODCHUCK.
Indeed right you are!
I remember a lot of these four color comics were reprinted in the Gold Key series.
Wow, that's a not a coincidence, I just watched an older video of yours where you talked about the rare variant of Hulk #377(you didn't mention the second variant of 377).
You made this video and YT "scanned this video" and then recommended me an older video by you; with Hulk #377 in it.
I wonder how many videos from other YTers YT will recommend tomorrow with Hulk #377 in it.
Damn thats crazy! I've got one out with CGC actually
Really cool video
Four color is really great and really nostalgic
Love this info!
Super interesting my man!
Man, I've bought and sold so many copies of Hulk 377 3rd print. Just never found one in good enough condition to want to add it to my PC. Why are they all so banged up?!
By far the hardest part of collecting this series is the fact you can't go to the "four color" section in your LCS and sadly most LCS's don't know the difference between Popeye 113 and Dell Four Color 113 (which incidentally is the first original Popeye stories in comics.) The first 100 issues actually had "Four Color Comics" printed very small on the cover. I wonder why they decided to forgo that on future issues? It's not as if it detracted from the title within. Maybe they knew they would make the life of a collector miserable in the future.
Nice video
I run into these comics all of the time, I should pay more attention to the issue numbers I suppose.
Hey I wanted to say thank you for doing this important video. I don't think that Dell comics get the love that they deserve. I'm trying to collect all the Four Color comics volume 2 and I have messaged other podcasters asking them to make a video highlighting Dell comics and I have even found an owner of my LCS who never heard of them. The fans of gratuitous violence in the MCU are a dime a dozen where Dell collectors are a specialized market. Don't get me wrong, l love the others too but I'm afraid the history is being lost in the shuffle. I've had a Facebook member on one of the comic groups who said they weren't real comics and he would throw them in the trash if he was given any as a gift including the Four Color 16 Porky pig and my 386 Uncle Scrooge. I hope to see more from you and would be more than happy to assist you with any information that you could need to do so
I liked and subscribe p.s I never knew four color comics exist
I've probably past over some of these comics not knowing how valuable they were
Honestly same. Pretty sure I've recognized one of two of these in the wild
Awesomeness!
I think I have a couple of these, but no keys
Four collor books are underrrated af
You should check out hoarders hide here on TH-cam. He's the a four color guru
Will do! Also giveaway results dropping tomorrow morning!
I enjoy twerking to your background music
#same
Hey Jim do you have any four color comics for sale? I'm one of those nuts trying to put together an entire run of volume 2 and I've gotten a good chunk done in the past two years with many of the key issues you discussed and it's at the point to where I don't collect other titles any more. I'm all in with the Dell four color volume 2 where I can focus all my attention to that solely. I also must say that these books don't get the love or respect they deserve in the comic community. I've had an asshole on Facebook say they're not real comics and if they were given to him he would have thrown them in the trash. I'm sure the guy who made that idiotic statement probably read his first comic book in 2008 when he saw iron man in the theaters and probably laughed at anyone who read comics before that time calling them geeks or whatever, total bandwagoner. I'm rambling on so I would love to request an even more in depth video on the Four color series in the future and I'm local to you and would be more than happy to help if you decide to do so
I do but it's not sorted AT ALL!
So many
This hurts my brain
How do you mean?
@@MintHunterComics just the comics not being in order and it being ordered by apprences. Their whole way of cataloging the books
First
Noice