The Adventures of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis is a celebrity comic book published by DC Comics and featuring the popular team of comedians Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. The series ran for forty issues from 1952 through 1957,[1] at which time it was renamed The Adventures of Jerry Lewis,[2] despite the fact that in real life Martin and Lewis had dissolved their partnership a year before.[3] At 124 issues, it is one of the longest-running comic book series starring a real person.
Publication history
Since The Adventures of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis was still selling well when Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis ended their partnership, DC Comics's initial reaction was to ignore the split. They continued publishing fictional adventures of the defunct duo for another year. However, with no new Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis movies on the horizon, DC ultimately decided that they needed to drop one or the other from the series. They chose Dean Martin because he was increasingly focusing on his career as a singer, and they preferred the series to star a comic.