Comic Strip Reprints
In 1947, Dell published two unnumbered paperbacks based on newspaper comic strips, Blondie and Dagwood in Footlight Folly and Dick Tracy and the Woo Woo Sisters. Both are popular with collectors today.
Dell was also the publisher between 1982 and 1987 of the series Twilight: Where Darkness Begins.
Dell Publishing no longer exists as an independent entity. They were bought out and are part of the Bantam Dell Publishing Group of Random House, which also uses some of Dell's other imprints. Dell Magazines was sold in 1997, and it still exists as a major publisher of puzzle magazines, also publishing science fiction, mystery and horoscope magazines.
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