Bambi – Comics Magazine for Children – Four Issues, Full Set, Asher Dikstein, 1965

Bambi – Comics Magazine for Children – Four Issues, Full Set, Asher Dikstein, 1965
Bambi, HaIton LiYeladim (The Magazine for Children) [Editor and artist: Asher Dikstein], Ramdor Publishing, Tel Aviv, [1965].
Full set of the four issues of 'Bambi,' children's comics' magazine, published by Asher Dikstein, one of the most prominent comics' artists in Israel in the 1960s. The magazine, fully designed and illustrated by Dikstein himself, features strips based on fairy tales and children stories such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the Ugly Duckling, Little Red Riding Hood and Dr. Dolittle as well as well-known fables.
Published by Ramdor.
The first three issues consist of 16 pages, while the fourth issue holds 20 pages. The first issue is bound in a hard cover. Good condition. Slight moth damage to the cardboard binding of the first issue, staple holes in the other three issues. Two loose pages in the fourth issue.
Asher Dikstein (Ein Dor) is one of the pioneers and most important artists of Israeli comics. He edited the magazines Bambi and Buki, illustrated comic strips as well as entries on the Hasamba book seires, contributed comic strips to the children's magazine Etzbaoni, designed and illustrated the covers of series such as Patrick Kim, Bill Carter and Ringo, and more. Ein Dor eventually became religious and lives in Safed. A psychedelic poster by Dikstein is the next item in this catalog.