January 1957 - June 1957

Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories, Vol. 17, No. 5 (#197).

Published on January 3, 1957. Edited by Alice Nielson Cobb. The comic includes the Donald Duck story “Borderline Hero,” by Carl Barks. Cover illustration by Paul Murry. Standard-format comic book. Color interiors. 36 pages. New York: Dell. Cover/indicia date: February 1957. Cover price: 10¢.

Marge’s Little Lulu #104.

Published on January 10, 1957. Edited by Helen Meyer. The comic includes the Little Lulu stories “A Profitable Afternoon,” “Firemen’s Little Helper,” “Big Business,” “Little Itch and the Beebleberry Juice,” and the Tubby story “Sick Call,” all by John Stanley & Irving Tripp. Cover illustration by John Stanley. Standard-format comic book. Color interiors. 36 pages. New York: Dell. Cover/indicia date: February 1957. Cover price: 10¢.

Dick Tracy Comics Monthly #109

Published on January 15, 1956. Edited by Leon Harvey. The comic features material originally published in Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy daily newspaper strip. Cover illustration by Joe Simon. Standard-format comic book. Color interiors. 36 pages. New York: Harvey. Cover/indicia date: March 1956. Cover price: 10¢.

Walt Disney’s Donald Duck #52.

Published on January 17, 1957. Edited by Alice Nielson Cobb. The comic includes the story “The Lost Peg Leg Mine,” by Carl Barks. Cover illustration by Carl Barks. Standard-format comic book. Color interiors. 36 pages. New York: Dell. Cover/indicia date: March-April 1957. Cover price: 10¢.

Mad #32.

Published on January 24, 1957. Edited by Albert B. Feldstein. The issue includes comics stories and illustrated text pieces from numerous cartoonists, writers, and illustrators. The contributors include Orson Bean, Bob Clarke, Mort Drucker, Albert B. Feldstein, Kelly Freas, Paul Laikin, Tom Lehrer, Don Martin, Nick Meglin, Norman Mingo, Joe Orlando, D. Purdy, Allen Robin, Jean Shepherd, G. Stang, Wallace Wood, and George Woodbridge. Cover illustration by Norman Mingo. Magazine-format. Black-and-white interiors. 52 pages. New York: E. C. Cover/indicia date: April 1957. Cover price: 25¢.

Note

This is the first issue of Mad featuring work by Mort Drucker.

Walt Disney’s Uncle $crooge #17.

Published on January 24, 1957. Edited by Alice Nielson Cobb. The comic includes the Uncle $crooge story “A Cold Bargain” and the Gyro Gearloose story “Fishing Mystery,” both by Carl Barks. Cover illustration by Carl Barks. Standard-format comic book. Color interiors. 36 pages. New York: Dell. Cover/indicia date: March-May 1957. Cover price: 10¢.

Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories, Vol. 17, No. 6 (#198).

Published on January 31, 1957. Edited by Alice Nielson Cobb. The comic includes the Donald Duck story “Knight in Shining Armor,” by Carl Barks. Cover illustration by Carl Barks. Standard-format comic book. Color interiors. 36 pages. New York: Dell. Cover/indicia date: March 1957. Cover price: 10¢.

Trump #2.

Published on February 1, 1957. Edited by Harvey Kurtzman. The issue includes comics stories and illustrated text pieces from numerous cartoonists, writers, and illustrators. The contributors include Clare Barnes, Mel Brooks, Parke Cummings, Jack Davis, Will Elder, Ed Fisher, Jack Fuller, Leon Golomb, Russ Heath, Phil Interlandi, Al Jaffee, Harvey Kurtzman, Arnold Roth, Howie Schneider, Bernard Shir-Cliff, Max Shulman, and Doodles Weaver. Cover illustration by Harvey Kurtzman. Magazine-format. Color interiors. 60 pages. Chicago: HMH (Playboy). Cover/indicia date: March 1957. Cover price: 50¢.

Marge’s Little Lulu #105.

Published on February 7, 1957. Edited by Helen Meyer. The comic includes the Little Lulu stories “Phone Call for You, Tubby!,” “Buried Treasure,” “Little Lulu Wins the Race,” “Little Itch’s Birthday Party,” and the Tubby story “Broken Scale,” all by John Stanley & Irving Tripp. Cover illustration by John Stanley. Standard-format comic book. Color interiors. 36 pages. New York: Dell. Cover/indicia date: March 1957. Cover price: 10¢.

Dick Tracy Comics Monthly #110.

Published on February 15, 1957. Edited by Leon Harvey. The comic features material originally published in Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy daily newspaper strip. Cover illustration by Joe Simon. Standard-format comic book. Color interiors. 36 pages. New York: Harvey. Cover/indicia date: April 1957. Cover price: 10¢.

Sugar and Spike #7.

Published on February 26, 1957. Edited by Whitney Ellsworth. The comic includes these stories: “Mud Mud Mud!,” “The Magic Book,” “First Haircut,” and “Three-Wheel Driver,” all by Sheldon Mayer. Cover illustration by Sheldon Mayer. Standard-format comic book. Color interiors. 36 pages. New York: National (DC). Cover/indicia date: April-May 1957. Cover price: 10¢.

Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories, Vol. 17, No. 7 (#199).

Published on February 28, 1957. Edited by Alice Nielson Cobb. The comic includes the Donald Duck story “Gyro’s Imagination Invention,” by Carl Barks. Cover illustration by Carl Barks. Standard-format comic book. Color interiors. 36 pages. New York: Dell. Cover/indicia date: April 1957. Cover price: 10¢.

Marge’s Little Lulu #106.

Published on March 7, 1957. Edited by Helen Meyer. The comic includes the Little Lulu stories “Soda Money,” “Surprise Party,” “Hiccup Specialist,” “The Power of Lawn Mowing,” “Little Itch and the Loose Tooth,” and the Tubby story “Get a Plumber,” all by John Stanley & Irving Tripp. Cover illustration by John Stanley. Standard-format comic book. Color interiors. 36 pages. New York: Dell. Cover/indicia date: April 1957. Cover price: 10¢.

Dick Tracy Comics Monthly #111.

Published on March 15, 1957. Edited by Leon Harvey. The comic features material originally published in Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy daily newspaper strip. Cover illustration by Joe Simon. Standard-format comic book. Color interiors. 36 pages. New York: Harvey. Cover/indicia date: May 1957. Cover price: 10¢.

Mad #33.

Published on March 26, 1957. Edited by Albert B. Feldstein. The issue includes comics stories and illustrated text pieces from numerous cartoonists, writers, and illustrators. The contributors include Bob Clarke, Mort Drucker, Frank Jacobs, Donald Knuth, Ernie Kovacs, Paul Laikin, Eddie Lawrence, Don Martin, Norman Mingo, Henry Morgan, Joe Orlando, Wallace Wood, and George Woodbridge. Cover illustration by Norman Mingo. Magazine-format. Black-and-white interiors. 52 pages. New York: E. C. Cover/indicia date: June 1957. Cover price: 25¢.

Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories, Vol. 17, No. 8 (#200).

Published on April 2, 1957. Edited by Alice Nielson Cobb. The comic includes the Donald Duck story “Donald’s Pet Service,” by Carl Barks. Cover illustration by Carl Barks. Standard-format comic book. Color interiors. 36 pages. New York: Dell. Cover/indicia date: May 1957. Cover price: 10¢.

Marge’s Little Lulu #107.

Published on April 9, 1957. Edited by Helen Meyer. The comic includes the Little Lulu stories “The Case of the Big Squeeze,” “Avoiding Tea,” “The Picnic Pirate,” “Little Badbag’s Present,” and the Tubby story “Home Wrecker,” all by John Stanley & Irving Tripp. Cover illustration by John Stanley. Standard-format comic book. Color interiors. 36 pages. New York: Dell. Cover/indicia date: May 1957. Cover price: 10¢.

Dick Tracy Comics Monthly #112.

Published on April 15, 1957. Edited by Leon Harvey. The comic features material originally published in Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy daily newspaper strip. Cover illustration by Joe Simon. Standard-format comic book. Color interiors. 36 pages. New York: Harvey. Cover/indicia date: June 1957. Cover price: 10¢.

Sugar and Spike #8.

Published on April 21, 1957. Edited by Whitney Ellsworth. The comic includes these stories: “Speech Lessons,” “Uncle Charley Strikes Again!,” “Ride ‘Em Cowboy,” and “Trip to the Zoo,” all by Sheldon Mayer. Cover illustration by Sheldon Mayer. Standard-format comic book. Color interiors. 36 pages. New York: National (DC). Cover/indicia date: June-July 1957. Cover price: 10¢.

Walt Disney’s Uncle $crooge #18.

Published on April 25, 1957. Edited by Alice Nielson Cobb. The comic includes the Uncle $crooge story “Land of the Pygmy Indians,” and the Gyro Gearloose story “The Sure-Fire Gold Finder,” all by Carl Barks. Cover illustration by Carl Barks. Standard-format comic book. Color interiors. 36 pages. New York: Dell. Cover/indicia date: June-August 1957. Cover price: 10¢.

Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories, Vol. 17, No. 9 (#201).

Published on April 30, 1957. Edited by Alice Nielson Cobb. The comic includes the Donald Duck story “The Day Duckburg Got Dyed,” by Carl Barks. Cover illustration by Paul Murry. Standard-format comic book. Color interiors. 36 pages. New York: Dell. Cover/indicia date: June 1957. Cover price: 10¢.

Marge’s Little Lulu #108.

Published on May 5, 1957. Edited by Helen Meyer. The comic includes the Little Lulu stories “Quiet in the Library,” “The Case of the Bald Broom,” “Birthday Yo-Yo,” “Ol’ Witch Hazel and the Prince of Diamonds,” and the Tubby story “Crystal Ball,” all by John Stanley & Irving Tripp. Cover illustration by John Stanley. Standard-format comic book. Color interiors. 36 pages. New York: Dell. Cover/indicia date: June 1957. Cover price: 10¢.

Dick Tracy Comics Monthly #113.

Published on May 15, 1957. Edited by Leon Harvey. The comic features material originally published in Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy daily newspaper strip. Cover illustration by Joe Simon. Standard-format comic book. Color interiors. 36 pages. New York: Harvey. Cover/indicia date: July 1957. Cover price: 10¢.

Walt Disney’s Donald Duck #54.

Published on May 16, 1957. Edited by Alice Nielson Cobb. The comic includes the story “Forbidden Valley,” by Carl Barks. Cover illustration by Tony Strobl. Standard-format comic book. Color interiors. 36 pages. New York: Dell. Cover/indicia date: July-August 1957. Cover price: 10¢.

Pogo’s Sunday Punch, Walt Kelly.

Published on May 21, 1957. The book features material first published between 1952 and 1953 in Walt Kelly's Pogo daily newspaper strip. Cover illustration by Walt Kelly. Trade-paperback book. Black-and-white interiors. 144 pages. New York: Simon & Schuster. Cover price: $1.00.

Mad #34.

Published on May 28, 1957. Edited by Albert B. Feldstein. The issue includes comics stories and illustrated text pieces from numerous cartoonists, writers, and illustrators. The contributors include Orson Bean, Dave Berg, E. Nelson Bridwell, Bob Clarke, Mort Drucker, Bob Elliott, Kelly Freas, Ray Goulding, Frank Jacobs, Paul Laikin, Don Martin, Norman Mingo, Joe Orlando, Wallace Wood, and George Woodbridge. Cover illustration by Norman Mingo. Magazine-format. Black-and-white interiors. 52 pages. New York: E. C. Cover/indicia date: July-August 1957. Cover price: 25¢.

Note

This is the first Mad issue to feature work by Dave Berg.

Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories, Vol. 17, No. 10 (#202).

Published on May 28, 1957. Edited by Alice Nielson Cobb. The comic includes the Donald Duck story “In Kakimaw County,” by Carl Barks. Cover illustration by Paul Murry. Standard-format comic book. Color interiors. 36 pages. New York: Dell. Cover/indicia date: July 1957. Cover price: 10¢.

Marge’s Little Lulu #109.

Published on June 6, 1957. Edited by Helen Meyer. The comic includes the Little Lulu stories “Saturday’s Child,” “The Contest,” “The Big Dipper Club,” “Little Itch and the Carnival,” and the Tubby story “Here Kitty,” all by John Stanley & Irving Tripp. Cover illustration by John Stanley. Standard-format comic book. Color interiors. 36 pages. New York: Dell. Cover/indicia date: July 1957. Cover price: 10¢.

Sugar and Spike #9.

Published on June 9, 1957. Edited by Whitney Ellsworth. The comic includes these stories: “Double Trouble,” “The Fix-It Machine,” “Horse Sense,” and “Spike Learns Big Business,” all by Sheldon Mayer. Cover illustration by Sheldon Mayer. Standard-format comic book. Color interiors. 36 pages. New York: National (DC). Cover/indicia date: August 1957. Cover price: 10¢.

Dick Tracy Comics Monthly #114.

Published on June 15, 1957. Edited by Leon Harvey. The comic features material originally published in Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy daily newspaper strip. Cover illustration by Joe Simon. Standard-format comic book. Color interiors. 36 pages. New York: Harvey. Cover/indicia date: August 1957. Cover price: 10¢.

Next: July to December 1957.