Four Color #868 – Walt Scott’s The Little People (1957 Dell Comics) – GD/VG – Fantasy Golden Age Fairy Tale

📦 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:

• The Smurfs, Pixie & Dixie, or classic fairy folk stories

• Beautiful, wholesome art

• 1950s moral fantasy storytelling

…this is a must-have.

📊 Condition Notes (GD/VG Estimate):

• Cover: Visible creasing, edge wear, small tears, and mild color fading

• Spine: Intact but with stress marks; staples may show rust or looseness

• Corners: Rounded with minor paper loss

• Interior Pages: Tanning and slight brittleness on edges, readable and complete

• Ideal as a reader copy or lower-grade collectible

• Bagged & boarded for safe keeping

💀 Why This Book Is Pure Fantasy Gold:

• Illustrated and written by Walt Scott — creator of The Little People newspaper strip

• One of Dell’s rare non-licensed fantasy fairy tale issues

• Beautiful Golden Age artifact for collectors of vintage children's comics or Irish folklore

• 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).