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Issue: The World Around Us #11
Publication Date: July 1959
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Issues: #11 of 36 Issues
Title: The Illustrated Story of the Marines
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Publisher: FlagGilberton
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Indicia Publisher: Gilberton World-Wide Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: 1959
Volume:
Pages: 84
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
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Content Items: 19 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Roberta Strauss; Meyer A. Kaplan (executive editor); Leonard Cole (art director)
Disclose Notes: Printed in the U.S.A. Indexed from information supplied by Saltarella via the GCD Error Tracker.
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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 the Marines

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Penciller(s): Alex Blum (painting)
Inker(s): Alex Blum (painting)
Colorist(s): Alex Blum (painting)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: military
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Special Introductory Offer

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First Line: We want you to get acquainted with our great, big 100-page Classics Illustrated Special Issues.
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The Illustrated Story of the Marines

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gerald McCann
Inker(s): Gerald McCann
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: military
Character(s): Michael Strank; Harlon Block; Franklin Sousley; Rene Gagnon; Ira Hayes; Harold Schultz
First Line: Since 1775, the United States Marine Corps has served America in peace and war.
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The Shores of Tripoli

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gerald McCann
Inker(s): Gerald McCann
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Letterer(s): ?
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Genres: historical, military, non-fiction
Character(s): Barbary pirates; American seamen; Thomas Jefferson; Pasha of Tripoli; William Eaton; Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon; U.S. Marines; Hamet
First Line: In 1801, American merchant ships in the Mediterranean Sea were being attacked by Barbary Pirates.
Synopsis: During the Barbary Wars, Lt. O'Bannon leads a small Marine detachment on a dangerous journey through the desert, after which the small party assaults a fort from the shore as the navy bombards it from the sea.
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The Terrible Tiger

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: nature, non-fiction
First Line: Today the jungles of the world are filled with wild beasts.
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Fighting Leathernecks

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Frank Bolle ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: historical, military, non-fiction, war
Character(s): Captain Samuel Nicholas; John Paul Jones; Lieutenant Edward Stack; U.S. marines
First Line: A marine is a soldier who serves aboard a ship.
Synopsis: Marines serve in numerous battles and campaigns of the American Revolution.
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A Gentle Hand

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: biography, historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Florence Nightingale; William Russell
First Line: The September of 1854 was raw and wet.
Synopsis: Florence Nightingale defies danger and expectations to establish a corps of woman nurses in the Crimean War.
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The Halls of Montezuma

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Everett Raymond Kinstler
Inker(s): Everett Raymond Kinstler
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Genres: historical, military, non-fiction
Character(s): Captain George H. Terrett; U.S. marines; U.S. soldiers; Mexican soldiers; General Winfield Scott; Lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant
First Line: Long after the Alamo fell in 1836, there was bitter feeling toward the Mexican general Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who conquered it.
Synopsis: Marines are assigned to rear duty for much of the Mexican War, but take the lead in storming Mexico City and Chapultepec Castle.
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The Marines Have Landed

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Joe Orlando
Inker(s): Joe Orlando
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Subject Matter
Genres: historical, military, non-fiction
Character(s): U.S. Marines; Commodore Matthew C. Perry; Commodore George Dewey
First Line: The United States Marine Corps has fought in every major war as well as many minor landings.
Synopsis: Review of the Marine Corps' history from the War of 1812 to 1958 peacekeeping in Lebanon.
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Six Outposts to Charlemagne

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Graham Ingels
Inker(s): Graham Ingels
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Subject Matter
Genres: historical, military, non-fiction
Character(s): Sergeant Herman Hanneken; Corporal William R. Button; Haitian gendarmes; Cacos bandits; Charlemagne Masena Peralte
First Line: In 1919, bandits on the tiny island of Haiti had been causing serious trouble for years.
Synopsis: Disguising themselves as Cacos bandits, and working with Haitian gendarmes, marines bluff their way past six outposts to kill the bandit leader.
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Pages: 9
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Devil Dogs

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): H. J. Kihl ? (illustrations)
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, military, non-fiction
Character(s): U.S. Marines; French soldiers; German soldiers
First Line: In the spring of 1918, during World War I, the Allies and the Germans were stalemated in muddy trenches.
Synopsis: Marines drive the Germans out of Belleau Wood, earning the nickname Devil Dogs.
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The Piltdown Hoax

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Charles Dawson; scientists
First Line: The newspapers of 1911 hailed the discovery as one of the world's most important scientific finds.
Synopsis: Dawson's discoveries of apparently ancient skulls are hailed as great finds, but eventually the skulls are determined to have been hoaxes.
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Becoming a Marine

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Tartaglione
Inker(s): John Tartaglione
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Subject Matter
Genres: teen, war
Character(s): Dick Harper; recruiting sergeant; Dick's friends; Dick's parents; drill instructor; Dick's fellow boots
First Line: What is it like to join the Marines today?
Synopsis: After high school, Dick joins the Marines. He goes through basic training and individual combat training, then into Marine aviation mechanics.
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Pages: 11
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The Floating Laboratory

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: non-fiction, science and technology
Character(s): Professor Maurice Ewing; scientists; master of the Vema; seamen
First Line: For twenty-four hours, storm warnings had been crackling over the small ship's radio.
Synopsis: Ewing's scientific team chart the ocean floor, and take samples for study.
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Peacetime Firemen

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ernie Hart ?
Inker(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: military, non-fiction
Character(s): U.S. Marines
First Line: What do Marines do in peacetime?
Synopsis: Survey of Marine activities and assignments during peacetime.
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Circle of Death

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Harry Anderson ?
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Genres: military, non-fiction
Character(s): U.S. Marines; Chinese Communist soldiers
First Line: It was the winter of 1950, during the Korean War.
Synopsis: Marines are surrounded and outumbered at Chosin in deadly winter weather, but fight their way out.
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Rocks, Sand and Bullets

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Sam Glanzman
Inker(s): Sam Glanzman
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Subject Matter
Genres: historical, military, non-fiction
Character(s): U.S. Marines; Colonel Harry B. Liversedge; Major General Harry Schmidt; First Lieutenant Harold G. Schrier; Joe Rosenthal; Michael Strank; Harlon Block; Franklin Sousley; Rene Gagnon; Ira Hayes; Harold Schultz
First Line: These tiny dots in the Pacific Ocean are names that will live in American history.
Synopsis: Marines on Iwo Jima fight to the top of Mount Suribachi, where they raise the American flag. Joe Rosenthal captures the moment on film.
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Character(s): Julius Caesar
First Line: Read the best in the world's finest juvenile publication
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover. Promo, with order coupon, for back issues of Classics Illustrated (HRN 150).
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Disclose Notes: Back cover. Promo, with order coupon, for subscriptions to The World Around Us.

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