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Monday, 7 July 2025

The Outer Limits - Complete Dell Series (1964 -1969) - Complete restored series - Contributed by Georges

Publisher: Dell

Publication Dates: January - March 1964 - October 1969

Number of Issues Published: 18 (#1 - #18)

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Silver Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

Publication Type: magazine

Pages: 36 Indicia Frequency: quarterly

Notes:

Based on the TV show. A science fiction/horror anthology.

Thanks to Georges for contributing these excellent issues restored by himself.

The Twilight Zone (1962 series) Dell / The Twilight Zone (1962 - 1982 series) Western - Complete restored series - Contributed by Georges

Publication Dates: May-July 1962 - August-October 1962

Number of Issues Published: 2 (#01860-207 - #01-860-210)

Color: Color

Dimensions: Standard Silver Age US

Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: Was ongoing

Publication Type: magazine

Pages : 36

Indexer Notes:

Based on the 1959-1964 television show of the same name.

Feature continues from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #1173 (March-May 1961) and #1288 (February-April 1962); continues with The Twilight Zone (Dell, 1962 series) #01-860-210 (August-October 1962).

Indicia title is "THE TWILIGHT ZONE, No. 01860-207". Cover code is 01-860-207.

On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date.

Harris confirmed as editor per his biblio in Robin Snyder's The Comics!, Vol 29, No.5, May 2018.

Publication Dates: November 1962 - May 1982

Number of Issues Published: 92 (#1 - #92)

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Silver Age US; later standard Modern Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

Publication Type: magazine

Pages : 36 Indicia Frequency: quarterly

Notes:

Adapted from the CBS TV series created by Rod Serling, which ran from 1959 to 1964. This series continues from Twilight Zone (Dell, 1962 series) and the earlier Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #1173 (March-May 1961) and #1288 (February-April 1962) featuring 'The Twilight Zone' (four issues in total) but restarting from #1.

Issues #1 to #8 have pin-up back cover, the same painting as the front without copy and logo. There is a date-gap between #91 (June 1979) and #92 (May 1982), the final issue.

Thanks to Georges for contributing these excellent issues restored by himself.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. # 01-#22 (Gold Key) - Complete restored series - Contributed by Georges

The Complete Dell Serie. Issue # 1-22 (1965-1969))

The Man from Uncle is a comic strip created in 1965 by Paul S. Newman and Don Heck

for Gold Key Comics. From the third issue, Dick Wood also contributed to the scripts.

The art was mostly by Mike Sekowsky, Mike Roy, and then Werner Roth.

As the number of pages decreased over time (from 32 to 21), a supplementary series,

Jet Dream, was published starting with issue 7. Issues #21 & #22 were only reprints

of previous issues and marked the end of the magazine.

Contains the story: "The Explosive Affair" (Vol. 1)

Contains the stories: "The Pixilated Puzzle Affair" (27 pages) and "The Spy In the Sky"

(a 4-page Jet Dream adventure) plus a one-page short story "The Double Agent" (Vol. 2).

Writer: Paul S. Newman; Penciller: Don Heck; Publisher: Gold Key

Thanks to Georges for contributing these excellent issues restored by himself.

Four Color v1 002-025 (1939-1942, Dell Comics). Missing #001, Dick Tracy [Courtesy of Jens Terje]

Four Color, also known as Four Color Comics and Dell Four Color, is an American comic book anthology series published by Dell Comics between 1939 and 1962. The title is a reference to the four basic colors used when printing comic books (cyan, magenta, yellow and black at the time). The first 25 issues (1939–1942) are known as "series 1". In mid-1942, the numbering started over again, and "series 2" began. After the first hundred issues of the second series, Dell stopped putting the "Four Color Comics" designation on the books, but they continued the numbering system for twenty years.

Publication Dates:

[September 1939] - 1942

Number of Issues Published:

25 (#1 - Dick Tracy - #25 - Popeye)

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.

Paper Stock:: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding:: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

Publication Type: magazine

Tracking:

Numbering continues in Four Color (Dell, 1942 series)

Notes:

- Dell usually published multiple issues of this series per month, with different features in each issue.

- As a series, it was held together mostly by its numbering--only the issues #19-25 carried the continuing title "Four Color"; preceding and successive issues changed titles every issue to match their contents. By convention, the entire series is referred to as "Four Color".

- For unknown reasons Dell restarted the numbering on the series in 1942, leading fans to refer to the "first series" and "second series" or "Series I" (this series) and "Series II" (see Four Color (Dell, 1942 series)).

https://www.comics.org/series/120/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Color

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