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The Time Machine

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Genres: science fiction

Character(s): H. G. Wells

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Coming Next

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Publisher's promotional advertisement for three of Gilberton Company's comic titles (with covers): The Illustrtaed Story of the Marines, The Illustrated Story of Horses, and the Illustrated Story of Space, PLUS a coupon for ordering the new issue of "The World Around Us" is included.

Alleyne Edricson

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Feature(s): Who Am I?

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Five different clues are given to the reader to decipher in order to determine the identity of a famous literary character (Alleyne Edricson).

The indicia is also found on this page, and lists Meyer A. Kaplan as Managing Editor, and is dated July 1956.

The Time Machine

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Genres: science fiction

Character(s): H. G. Wells; Wells' unnamed friends; Eloi (people from over 800,000 years in the future); Weena (girl, a Eloi); The Morlocks (villains)

Synopsis: Wells is late to dinner with his friends, but shows up, clothes tattered, and he tells them the story of his time machine, travel into the very distant future, falling in love, battling the Morlocks, and his arrival back into the present. His only proof to them were flowers given to him as a present from Weena.

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H. G. Wells

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Genres: biography

Character(s): H. G. Wells; Amy Catherine Robbins (Well's second wife)

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Notes: Spot illustrated biography of Herbert George Wells, born September 21, 1866, died August 13, 1946.

Part 7: The Elizabethan Age

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Genres: historical

Feature(s): The Story of Great Britain

Character(s): Elizabeth I; Elizabeth I's un-named suitor (death); John (settler)

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Notes: Story of of Great Britain's Elizabeth I (daughter of Henry VIII), from age 3 through adulthood, spotlighting the death of her mother and suitor, imprisonment, explorations and settlements, prosperity and advancements in the arts, as well as trade and exploration.

Part 8 is titled "The Puritan Revolution", appearing in the next issue.

Charles Darwin

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Genres: biography

Character(s): Charles Darwin

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Notes: Biography, with spot illustration, of the English scientist, Charles Darwin, born in 1809 and who died April 19, 1882. Much of the article discusses his theory of evolution.

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Feature(s): Classics Illustrated

First Line: Free! Free! Free! 40 of the world's greatest comic strip characters in tattoos

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Advertisement from Gilberton Company, Inc. for an attractive, permanent binder to house and preserve copies of Classics Illustrated. Cost $1 each and each holds 12 issues. Coupon provided for ordering.

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Feature(s): Classics Illustrated

First Line: Read the best in the world's finest juvenile publication

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Current listing of the currently available issues of Classics Illustrated, displaying the cover to #149, plus a coupon readers could use to order any of the available issues of the 152 published to date.