1937-38 Hank Porter Comic StripDistributed by King Features Syndicate, this Snow White Sunday newspaper comic strip ran for twenty weeks, from December 12, 1937 to April 24, 1938. It actually began nine days prior to the film’s colossal premiere at the Cathay Circle Theatre on December 21, 1937 and a whopping month and a half or more before the movie’s general public release in February 1938. By the time the film actually appeared in theaters, devoted readers would have already been familiar with the princess, prince and queen. They’d also have had a silhouetted glimpse of the dwarfs marching home from their diamond mine.