Lyons, thanks for this - great find! But why is it listed as publisher unknown? It clearly says 'Dell Publishing' 1934 on the frontispiece. It's an adaption of the full-length animated movie version of Gulliver from the Max Fleischer studios. I'm wondering if the black and white illustrations were taken directly from the plates of the film? They have that look? [Ok, Just had a closer look.They are mostly signed TP and one TOM PALMER was a director of animation - there were a few- they are probably plates which he has signed off on during production ]
Here is an article on it from the Fleischer website.
https://www.fleischerstudios.com/gulliver.html
I've seen copies of this film around on DVD but never realized its significance. Next time I see one I'll grab it. Actually, it just occurred to me, since it is in the public domain, it could be hosted on CB+.
While checking this out, I came across Thunderbean studios, who are restoring a lot of classic cartoons which some of you might like to check out.
Cheers.
http://www.thunderbeananimation.com/
By positronic1
I can see where Lyons may have been hesitant to just lump this in with Dell COMICS... because it's not a comic book. Dell published a lot of things besides comics. You can't actually tell that from just looking at the cover, though, and just tossing it in with the rest of the Dell comics might lead to disappointment by some when they discovered it was a children's book rather than one of their movie comics. "Odds and Ends" does seem like the appropriate category in this case. Come to think of it, there were several publishers (Avon pops immediately to mind) who did things like adapting novels that they had the rights to, into comic books. "An Earth Man on Venus" would be a great example. I'd love to see someone post a scan of the paperback novel; it would make a great companion piece to the comic.
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