{"id":2247,"date":"2009-05-04T12:54:45","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T20:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2009-05-04T12:54:45","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T20:54:45","slug":"hey-kids-comics-dumbos-sky-voyage-at-cool-mo-dee-may-4th-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/04\/hey-kids-comics-dumbos-sky-voyage-at-cool-mo-dee-may-4th-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : Dumbo’s Sky Voyage at Cool-Mo-Dee : May 4th, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dumbo’s Sky Voyage<\/em> is not the best comic on the list below… heck, it isn’t even close to being the best issue of Dell’s Four Color<\/em> series on the list below (I mean, Carl Barks classic tales Lost in the Andes<\/em><\/a> and Voodoo Hoodoo<\/em><\/a> are down there! It doesn’t get any better than that! Why am I talking about Dumbo?). <\/p>\n

I speak to you about it solely because I read my copy of it to my daughter the other week. <\/p>\n

Even bad issues of Four Color (and this is a pretty bad one) are pretty entertaining. Dumbo<\/em> is one of my favorite Disney cartoons, but this doesn’t preserve much of its charm. Dumbo talks in this comic (he’s silent in the movie), and his entertaining sidekick Timothy the Mouse is nowhere to be seen. Strangely, although Timothy and all other characters from Dumbo are completely absent, Doc from the Seven Dwarfs shows up (tangent: why is it dwarfs<\/em> instead of dwarves<\/em> when these imps are mentioned, anyhow?)… all Disney characters apparently living in the same shared Disneyverse. Needless to say, continuity was never a concern in the old Disney comics (at least not until Don Rosa’s excellent take on the Disney ducks). I think there was at least one other random Disney character that showed up somewhere in it… damned if I can remember at this point, and it takes too long to download and find out. My memory is lousy anyhow, and this is not a memorable comic. Kind of fun, though, and I’m a sucker for about any issue of Four Color. So, I liked it. But I can’t really recommend it! Maybe you just like old Dell comics like I do… you can download it by clicking the image above.<\/p>\n

Don’t miss those Carl Barks comics, though! Square eggs!!! <\/p>\n

Donald Duck in Lost in the Andes<\/em><\/a>
\nDonald Duck in Voodoo Hoodoo<\/em><\/p>\n