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Four Color #868 – Walt Scott’s The Little People (1957 Dell Comics) – GD/VG – Fantasy Golden Age Fairy Tale
Four Color #868 – Walt Scott’s The Little People (1957 Dell Comics) – GD/VG – Fantasy Golden Age Fairy Tale
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📦 Product Description:
Condition: GD/VG (Good to Very Good)
Publisher: Dell Comics
Series: Four Color Comics
Issue: #868 – The Little People
Release Year: 1957
Creator/Artist: Walt Scott
Genre: Fantasy, Fairy Tale, Children’s Comics
🍄 Issue Overview:
Welcome to a land of leprechauns, sprites, and talking animals — Walt Scott’s The Little People is a gentle, richly illustrated fantasy story that mixes whimsy with lessons of kindness, cleverness, and heart. A rare standalone comic in the Four Color series, this tale follows a tiny hero in a big world full of wonder, danger, and magic.
If you love:
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The Smurfs, Pixie & Dixie, or classic fairy folk stories
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Beautiful, wholesome art
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1950s moral fantasy storytelling
…this is a must-have.
📊 Condition Notes (GD/VG Estimate):
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Cover: Visible creasing, edge wear, small tears, and mild color fading
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Spine: Intact but with stress marks; staples may show rust or looseness
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Corners: Rounded with minor paper loss
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Interior Pages: Tanning and slight brittleness on edges, readable and complete
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Ideal as a reader copy or lower-grade collectible
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Bagged & boarded for safe keeping
💀 Why This Book Is Pure Fantasy Gold:
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Illustrated and written by Walt Scott — creator of The Little People newspaper strip
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One of Dell’s rare non-licensed fantasy fairy tale issues
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Beautiful Golden Age artifact for collectors of vintage children's comics or Irish folklore
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GD/VG makes it a budget-friendly entry into Golden Age fantasy collecting
🧚 From the Reaper’s enchanted drawer — where every tale ends with a whisper of magic (and maybe a pot of gold).
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