#dell comics

Public Nuisance No. 1 “Four Color #33” (1943)

(Tarzan Volume 1 #7)

(1962)

Popeye #9 - Cover art by Bud Sagendorf (1949)

Dell

DAISY’S DEEP THOUGHTS…

𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗹 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗸𝘀 From Uncle Scrooge #39, 1962.

Offered here is a true rarity: an unpublished "Test Page" for a Get Smart comic penciled and partially inked by Steve Ditko! As legend has it, Steve was hired by Sal Trapani, who was doing some work for some of the smaller comics publishers, to help with layouts. One of the books they worked on together was Dell's Get Smart, from whence this unpublished page comes. Perfectly capturing the likenesses of both Don Adams and Barbara Feldon, this is a rare opportunity to see Ditko's pencil work, as almost all the Ditko material out there features fully finished inks.