From the Golden Age to present, recording the history of Comic Book publishing and collecting in South Africa. Submissions Welcome! George van der Riet. e-mail: g.vdr26@gmail.com
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This is Mimosa 77 Sunset Strip, a South African reprint from 1963, which reprints Dell Four Color Comics #1211 from 1961.
77 Sunset Strip was a US Television series from 1957-1964. Dell and Gold
Key produced comic books based on this series, from 1960-1963.
32 Pages, colour cover, black-and-white interior.
Cover of issue 1 (no number printed on this issue, but I suspect it was the first issue) and Dell Comics' original cover:
Atlas Publications 77 Sunset Street 3
Mimosa Comics
This rare South African reprint was published in 1964 by Mimosa (S.A. Magazine Co.).
These titles were printed in a smaller size (161x116mm) compared to the original DC Comics title.
Cover printed in colour, interior in black-and-white.
The printing reproduction from the original was very good quality. This issue is 64 pages.
Cover of Confession Picture Library 36 and DC Comics' original cover of Falling in Love 59 (1963):
This is Atlas Publications Walt Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, a South African reprint from 1960, which reprints Dell
Four Color Comics #614 from 1954.
32 Pages, colour newsprint cover, black-and-white interior. Digest Size 163x113mm
Cover and Dell Comics' original cover:
This is Supercomix The Incredible Hulk 4, published by Republican Press in 1976.
32 Pages, Full colour.
Cover and Marvel Comics' original cover of The Incredible Hulk 118 from 1969:
See Also:
Atlas Publications reprinted various Western Comics in the 1960s.
32 Pages, colour cover, black-and-white interior.
Issue 4 of Zane Grey's Stories of the West (1963) and Dell Comics original issue number 37 from 1958:
