Wow! Here's a title from Western Publishing I never heard of before. And while it's "just a give-away" from a shoe store, the quality is right up there with the Gold Key books. Thanks for making this available!
By lrek
Love these things. So much nostalgia in such a tiny (and often overlooked) package!
By philj
Does anyone know who the artist is? When I google 'Weather Bird' it brings up a very old comic strip which is totally different? This artist has a beautiful style. Love to know who it is. Obviously a ly an ex-animator. One of the best I have seen. Perfect!
By Robb_K
This book is from Western's period with Dell Comics, as its producer and distributor, before they started their own, Gold Key Comics. I would say that their Dell Comics were of higher quality than their Gold Key Comics. I recognise this artists work. He was Frank McSavage, a Disney animator from 1936-44, who also worked for Sangor Studios during the mid to late 1940s on comic books for Ben Sangor's ACG Comics and Ned Pines' Nedor and Standard Comics, and, finally, was a long-time Western Publishing artist, who drew a lot of stories for them in the early 1950s, especially for Disney titles, and during the late '50s for Walter Lantz titles, and some Western Publishing promotional giveaways. He drew a lot of the secondary stories in The Mickey Mouse series during 1951-57.
By Robb_K
International Shoe Company hired Western Publishing to produce, print, and distribute their Weather-Bird, Reddy Goose, and Poll Parrot series of giveaway comic books, to give away to children whose parents were buying their children International's 3 lines of chilkdren's shoes: Poll Parrot, Red Goose, and Poll Parrot shoes. These original series ran only from 1959-1961, and were drawn by Western's staff of (mainly ex-animation artists who drew Dell comics. The older Weather-Bird comic book you found in your search was one of the giveaways that International Shoe Co. gave away between 1952 and 1958, which all were intact inside pages of old, unsold stock of comic books obtained inexpensively from various original publishers (including Harvey, St. John, DC, Archie, and even some Dell books, all with their original covers removed, and bound into specially-made Weather-Bird front and back covers. These re-cycled books were random, as to from which publisher's stock they were purchased.
Additional Information
Name
Weather-Bird 5 | Published
Publication
Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 20
Notes
On-sale date from 1960 Books and Pamphlets, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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