Dell#37
Lassie
#37
Nov 1957
Issues
22 issues · 26 editions
Sources
Catalog data from the Grand Comics Database is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 and was normalized by The Collector. Cover images belong to their publishers.
Catalog data from the Grand Comics Database is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 and was normalized by The Collector. Cover images belong to their publishers.
#39
Mar 1958
Who made the most issues of this run, with the issues they span.
Who appears most often in this run, by issues they appear in.
The 22-issue Dell comic book series "Lassie" was based on the Emmy Award-winning CBS television series of the same name, which was broadcast between 1954 and 1973. Both the CBS television series and the Dell comic book follow the adventures of a rough collie named Lassie and a farmboy named Timmy Martin. Although the television show had a 19 year run, Timmy appeared for only 7 years, between 1957 and 1964.
The first Dell issue of "Lassie" brought the Rocky and Gerry stories of the Dell "M-G-M's Lassie" series to an end. Timmy was introduced in the third issue in a story based on his September 1957 television debut. Other "Lassie" comic book stories were sometimes based on episodes of the television series.
Many of the regular cast members of the television series migrated to the comic book series, including farmboy Jeff Miller, his mother Ellen and his paternal grandfather "Gramps" Miller, his chubby friend Porky Brockway and Porky's basset hound Pokey, Calverton veterinarian Doc Weaver, Timmy Martin and his adoptive parents Ruth and Paul Martin, and Paul's uncle Petrie Martin.
All front covers in the Dell series are color photographs depicting either Lassie alone or Lassie and Timmy (CBS child star Jon Provost). Secondary features include one-page text stories with canine themes and four-page comics stories about Blaze, a yearling colt being trained as a polo pony. When the Dell series expired, Western picked up the Timmy and Lassie stories for five issues with Lassie and the Martin family living in Africa.
From the Grand Comics Database.