4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 485

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #485 Universal
Grade: 9.0
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE
Certification #: 0911619020
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 3/3/2009
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

The Little People Comics (#1) 8/53. Don Gunnpenciler, inker, cover. Tied with one other for the best of five copies to date. (4/12). Stories include:

1. [Untitled 1 page story inside front cover]

2. The Little People and the Sick Fawn

3. The Little People's Carnival

4. [1 page story inside back cover]

5. [1 page story on back cover]

The Little People's community consisted of a mere five individuals: Chub, Cork, Jink, Loop and The Old One, all male. That they weren't the only members of their species was evidenced by the existence of their shiftless, conniving neighbors, The Groons, another all-male group. The topic of female Little People was seldom if ever brought up. Mostly, they socialized with the animal community in their woodsy locale.

The following year, in addition to the Sunday comic, Scott began writing and drawing The Little People in comic book form. Dell Comics published it in the catch-all series, Four Color Comics, the 485th issue of which (August, 1953) was devoted to Scott's feature. Dell had already been publishing a similar series, The Brownies, which Walt Kelly (Pogo, Gremlin Gus) had set the tone for — a tone which Scott (a former Disney man, just like Kelly) had closely duplicated. Dell phased out The Brownies within a couple of years, but The Little People was published in a total of ten issues of Four Color. The last of them was #1062 (December, 1959).
  
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