Disney Comics

Disney Comics
Customer Review: Disney Film Reprints from Long Gone Comics
Real and true comic fans know what Dell Four Color comics Is. This series of comics showcased films, Television, and reprint strip comics in comic book form from 1940-1960's. Most of the comic masters plates from the original comics are long gone. The four color book series is rare to find. Disney Press reprinted the four colors comics of five of their classic films (Snow White, Bambi, Dumbo, Alice in Wonderland, and Peter Pan) in this volume. One can hope this will be the first of many volumes of Dell/Gold Key Disney film reprints. The art is amazing, i would stack these yellowing reprints again the comics of today. These reprints are worth more than the fifty dollar price tag (the price of this book) if you even try to buy READING copies of these books. Comic art hasn't been better than in the 1940-1960 heyday. Comics were simpler and more beloved artform. Splash (full or two page art) pages were used, rare in comics these days. Know this, this book is not a KID'S comic book or graphic novel. The page stock is not glossy like most reprints are, but on a stock that is readable. So if you are fan of classic comics reprints, You know this book is a rare find because you can read these old classic ...you know this book is worth it. If you are a classic Disney film fan or disney collector, It's worth it to see this old art revised in a new format. However, if you want an ideal of modern comics, dont get this classic collection, it will be a let down for you For me, who is a classic Disney fan & a Dell Four Color fan-I AM IN DISNEY HEAVEN! So Disney Press, when you going to reprint the old sunday newspaper strips of the movies? Bennet Pomerantz AUDIOWORLD
Customer Review: A Good Reprint
One of the most glaring deficiencies of the marketting for this book is that no-where online, or on the front cover are the books contents listed. This book contains comic book adaptations of the following Disney movies, "Snow White", "Bambi", "Dumbo", "Alice in Wonderland" and "Peter Pan". Additionally, contains a short comic, "The Seven Dwarves Meet Dumbo." These comic books were published from between 1941 and the mid 1950 and are presented in chronological order according to when the movies were released, not when the comics were released. They are reprinted from photographs (or scans possibly) of the original comic books. No effort has been taken to touch them up or modify them in any way. While I am sure that partially done for questions of expediency and cost-effectiveness, I think that more than anything this is a method of being most true to your source material. In the 80s, when the Smithsonian chose to offer a book reprinting classic comic books, this is the method they chose as well. I like the effect and think that these classic comics are best presented that way. This means, of course, that you see some cross-hatching from the printing, and the pages are yellowed slightly, but you get the feeling that you are actually reading the old comic books . Another reviewer implied that the binding of this book was low-grade, but I disagree. I'm not an expert but I feel that it was very well done, with acid-free heavy-stock pages. Also, the photography/scan job was done very well (unlike many similar reprints on the market). All the pages are square and nothing about the layout detracts from enjoyment of the art. My biggest gripe about this volume is that no effort is made to give these comics any sort of context. There is no introduction explaining the thought process behind adapting these movies in comic book form, no indication if there were any other adaptations of these movies (I'm pretty sure the Snow White comic was reprinted a couple of different times with different covers, its publication date in the book was actually after "Bambi"). There wasn't even any effort made to give credit to the original writers and artists. I would have especially liked to see who had done the art for some of these comics, especially Snow White. So, all in all, I think it was a good effort, though some more work could have gone into giving a bit more explanation about the material being presented.