American Update: A Deluge of Dell Diversity
*Dell: Like its companion and quasi-offspring, Gold Key/Whitman, Dell had a bewildering variety of series, many of which flittered evanescently across the public consciousness, but some of which stuck around for an inexplicably long time. Big on TV, movie, and sometimes even comic strip adaptations, they also flirted with their own line of original adventure characters. We’ve added, this week, the adaptations of movies & TV shows John Paul Jones, Naked Prey, Peter Gunn and Robin Hood (plus newspaper strip Short Ribs), and original series Kona (post-nuclear caveman, bonkers story, superbly illustrated by Sam Glanzman) Nukla (Poundland Captain Atom, drawn by Steve Ditko), and Werewolf (a superheroic secret agent with a canine sidekick; Tony Tallarico at the height of his powers! Ahem.) Oh, and Tom & Jerry, just for a touch of gravitas.