Al Taliaferro - a kind of index

Myklebust,Are are.myklebust at f1101.aetat.no
Wed Feb 11 08:44:04 CET 2004


For those who have missed something like this:

A "BIRD'S-EYE VIEW" OVER THE COMIC STRIP ART / COMIC BOOK ART BY
AL TALIAFERRO (1905 - 1969)

Note! The dates are European standard: Day/Month/Year


COMIC STRIPS (Newspapers - King Features Syndicate)

Mickey Mouse (art by Floyd Gottfredson):
Daily Strips: 02.03.1931 - late 1932 (inking of many strips)
(+ one week in 1937)
Sunday Pages: 17.01.1932 - 24.04.1938 (regular inking - together with
Ted Thwaites)

Silly Symphonies - Sunday pages
(strip started 10.01.1932 and ended 12.07.1942):
17.01.1932 - 16.04.1939 (writers: Ted Osborne/ Merrill de Maris)
- including;
"The Wise Little Hen": 16.09.1934 - 16.12.1934 (writer: Ted Osborne)
(Donald Duck's first appearance in comic strips!)
  &
"Donald Duck": 30.08.1936 - 12.12.1937 (writer: Ted Osborne)
(Note; "Silly Symphonies" logo disappeared from 22.08.1937,
title become simply "Donald Duck".)


Donald Duck - daily strips:
07.02.1938 - 18.01.1969 (estimate: ca. 9 300 strips!)
(writer: Bob Karp, Note; the first strips in 1938 (until 06.04.1938) are
credited to be written by Homer Brightman.)

Donald Duck - Sunday pages:
10.12.1939 - 16.02.1969 (estimate: ca. 1 450 pages)
(writer: Bob Karp)


COMIC BOOKS

Walt Disney's Comics and Stories;
(Note; NOT including reprinted newspaper strips! Donald Duck strips
reprints from issue # 1, Silly Symphonies Sunday pages reprints in several
issues from # 5 to # 28.)

Covers:
#  24 (September 1942)
# 107 (August 1949)

"Bucky Bug":
# 39 (December 1943) (10 p.)
# 60 (September 1945) (8 p.)

"Donald Duck" (all 2 pages):
# 100 (January 1949)
# 102 (March 1949)
# 103 (April 1949)

+ Animated short adaptations (all 1 page except noted);
# 54, # 55, # 57, # 60, #71 (2 p.), # 76 (2 p.) & # 80
(March 1945 - May 1947)

- also text-illustrations (2 p.) in issue # 102 & # 107


Cheerios Premium (# X1) - Giveaway 1947;
"Donald Duck, Counter-Spy" (one strip - 30 pages)

Icy-Frost Twins (Ice Cream Bars) - Giveaway 1948
- "Donald Duck's Surprise Party" (16 p., mostly Walt Kelly art);
text-illustrations "Chef Donald" (2 p.)

- also back cover art to many of the Wheaties Giveaways (set C & D, 1951)


CHILDREN BOOKS

"Donald Duck and the Hidden Gold" (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1951)
Story by Jane Werner, illustrations by Al Taliaferro (- who is credited on
the front page!)


Are Myklebust
(Norway)



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