sentences:  Western Publishing's "Big Little Book" series based most of its Mickey volumes on the strip; Dell Publishing's "Walt Disney's Comics and Stories" serialized stories from the strip through 1948.Modern-day American reprints began with "The Bar None Ranch" (1940) which appeared in "Walt Disney Comics Digest" #40 (1973).The following year "The Bat Bandit" (1934) appeared in a deluxe edition "The Best of Walt Disney Comics".