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Issue: The World Around Us #5
Publication Date: January 1959
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Issues: #5 of 36 Issues
Title: The Illustrated Story of Space
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Publisher: FlagGilberton
Brand: A Classics Illustrated PublicationView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Gilberton World-Wide Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 84
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
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Content Items: 16 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Roberta Strauss
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Full Color
Dimensions: Standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Newsprint interior; Glossy cover
Binding: Squarebound
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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The Illustrated Story of Space

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Gay Welker [as Welker] (signed) (painting)
Inker(s): Gay Welker [as Welker] (signed) (painting)
Colorist(s): Gay Welker [as Welker] (signed) (painting)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: With Saturn in the background, several astronauts perform an E.V.A. spacewalk.
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In Issue: FlagWorld Illustrated #505 published ?cover image reversed & recropped
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Pages: 1
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Special Introductory Offer

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
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The Illustrated Story of Space

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gerald McCann
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science and technology
Character(s): astronaut
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Pages: 1
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Training for Space

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (layouts); Norman Nodel ?
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science and technology
Character(s): Colonel John P. Stapp; Don Farrell
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Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: Real people are inserted into the story. Both Colonel John P. Stapp and Don Farrell are aerospace pioneers.
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Rocket Around the Moon

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Tartaglione ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science and technology
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Pages: 11
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What Is Space?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Sam Glanzman
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science and technology
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Where Are We?

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: science and technology
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Birth of the Rocket

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gerald McCann
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science and technology
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Pages: 7
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American Rockets

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Sam Glanzman ?
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Genres: science and technology
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Man-Made Moons

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Penciller(s): Sam Glanzman ?
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: science and technology
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Pages: 5
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Countdown!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Graham Ingels
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science and technology
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Assignment Space Station

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Sam Glanzman
Inker(s): Sam Glanzman
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science and technology
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Pages: 16
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Planet Patter

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Sam Glanzman ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science and technology
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Pages: 3
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Life on Other Planets?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Sam Glanzman ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science and technology
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The Wonderful World of Fairy Tales

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Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: Read the best in the world's finest juvenile publication
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Disclose Notes: House ad for Classics Illustrated titles up to HRN 147.

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