Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies: Compete Comics Volume 2: 1935 - 1939

Mullaney, Dean (ed.)

ISBN 10: 1631408046 / ISBN 13: 9781631408045

Published by IDW Publishing, 2016

About this Item

Stated first printing. The book is in excellent, like new condition with crisp, unmarked pages, a tight binding, and vibrant, attractive images throughout. The dustjacket is in similarly excellent condition, intact and clean, and is in an archival protective mylar.

Seller Inventory # 1039605

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies: Compete Comics Volume 2: 1935 - 1939
• Publisher: IDW Publishing
• Publication Date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1631408046
• ISBN 13: 9781631408045
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
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Synopsis

This second of four volumes presents the spectacular Sunday pages from 1935 to 1939, featuring the first comic strip adaptation of a feature-length film―Snow White…the original Donald Duck series, plus the Three Little Pigs (and the Big Bad Wolf, of course), Elmer the Elephant, Pluto, Goofy, and the Three Little Kittens. The artwork for these rare strips has come straight from the Disney vaults, each page meticulously colored using as a guide the original file copies that belonged to Walt Disney himself!

About the Author

Merrill De Maris was born in New Jersey in 1898 and in addition to Silly Symphonies, wrote for the Mickey Mouse strip, and contributed gags for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and other animated films.

Charles Alfred Taliaferro was born in Montrose, Colorado on August 29, 1905 and moved with his family to Glendale, California in 1918. "I knew I was going to be a cartoonist," he told interviewer Jim Korkis in 1968. "I've always believed that if you want anything bad enough and you work hard enough for it, eventually you'll get it." In the middle of the Great Depression in 1931 he learned that the Walt Disney Studio had jobs available. "I went in and was hired on the spot: January 5, 1931," he recalled. At first he inked Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse newspaper strip. He then went on to draw the Silly Symphonies Sunday page, where on September 16, 1934 he first drew Donald Duck, the character with whom he would become forever associated.

Hank Porter was a staff artist at Disney from 1935-1950, who created the newspaper strip adaptations of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Pinocchio.