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Issue: The World Around Us #20
Publication Date: April 1960
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Issues: #20 of 36 Issues
Title: The Illustrated Story of Communications
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Publisher: FlagGilberton
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Indicia Publisher: Gilberton World-Wide Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: 1960
Volume:
Pages: 72
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
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Content Items: 22 (14 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Roberta Strauss Feuerlicht
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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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FlagWorld Illustrated #512 published January 1961
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Through Time and Space

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Genres: non-fiction
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
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Feature(s): Classics Illustrated Junior
Character(s): Gepetto; Pinocchio; Thumbelina; Three Bears; ballerina; Steadfast Tin Soldier
First Line: The Wonderful World of Fairy Tales
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gerald McCann
Inker(s): Gerald McCann ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Through Time and Space: The Illustrated Story of Communications
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Disclose Notes: Pencils: Gerald McCann credited by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. and Saltarella.

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The First Words

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gerald McCann
Inker(s): Gerald McCann
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Cave men
Synopsis: Speculative story of how language developed
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Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Pencils/inks: Gerald McCann credited by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. and Saltarella.
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Signs and Sounds

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gerald McCann
Inker(s): Gerald McCann
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Cave men; Scythians; Greeks; Chinese; Egyptians; Persians; American Indian; museum visitors; librarian; library patrons
Synopsis: The development of written language, both phonetic and ideographic.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Pencils/inks: Gerald McCann credited by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. and Saltarella.
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The Liberty to Know

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Peter Wentworth; John Milton; John Peter Zenger
Synopsis: Peter Wentworth is imprisoned for life for advocating free speech. Seventy years later John Milton survives his similar plea, and 90 years after that Zenger prevails in court.
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Signals and Speed

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bruno Premiani
Inker(s): Bruno Premiani
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Greeks; Persians; American Indians; African drummers; Athenians; Spartans; Darius; Callimachus; Pheidippides
Synopsis: Looking for ways to send long-distance messages, people experiment with such methods as drums, smoke signals, and heliographs. Even so, most such messages need to be delivered by runner. Pheidippides runs himself to death carrying vital messages when Athens is invaded.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Pencils/inks: Premiani credited by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. and Saltarella.
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Mounted Messengers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Peltz ?
Inker(s): George Peltz ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Herodotus; Marco Polo; Kublai Khan; mounted messengers
Synopsis: Marco Polo describes the Great Khan's effective and elaborate system of mounted post couriers.
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Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Pencils/inks: Peltz suggested by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. and Saltarella.
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The Art of Printing

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Tartaglione
Inker(s): John Tartaglione
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Tsai Lun; Emperor Hoti; printers; scribes; William Caxton
Synopsis: Chinese scholars invent practical forms of paper, printing, and moveable type. Europe later adopts the same innovations. Even so, printing and communication remain slow.
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Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Pencils/inks: Tartaglione credited by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. and Saltarella.
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Death of an Age

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Nicolaus Copernicus; Giordano Bruno; Galileo Galilei; Johannes Kepler
Synopsis: Copernicus and his successors radically change human understanding of the universe.
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Pages: 1
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A Moving Stream

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): H. J. Kihl ?
Inker(s): H. J. Kihl ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, non-fiction, science and technology
Character(s): Thales; Roger Bacon
Synopsis: Summary of the operation of electricity.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Pencils/inks: Kihl suggested by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. and Saltarella.
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Words over Wires

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gerald McCann
Inker(s): Gerald McCann
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Samuel F. B. Morse; Dr. Jackson; Captain Pell; Alfred Vail; Judge Steven Vail; members of Congress; Annie Ellsworth; Ezra Cornell
Synopsis: Samuel Morse works out a code for communicating over wires via electricity and develops a system to accomplish this over long distances. He convinces the U.S. Congress to fund a demonstration project and sends messages 44 miles between Washington and Baltimore.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Pencils/inks: Gerald McCann credited by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. and Saltarella.
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Linking Two Worlds

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Norman Nodel
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Cyrus Field; Matthew Maury; William Thomson; Queen Victoria; Sir Charles Bright; businessmen; seamen; naval officers
Synopsis: Cyrus Field conceives and implements a plan for a transatlantic telegraph cable. It takes ten years and many bitter failures, but at last he succeeds.
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Pencils: Nodel credited by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. and Saltarella.
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The Artist Who Did Not Starve

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Domenicos Theotocopoulos [El Greco]; bishop; Spanish nobles
Synopsis: El Greco's unique art is not approved by Spanish nobility, until a bishop embraces it warmly. Thereafter El Greco has many commissions and lives very comfortably.
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Talking by Telegraph

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Evans
Inker(s): Reed Crandall
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Alexander Graham Bell; Bell's mother; deaf students; Emperor Dom Pedro; George Sanders; Mary Ann Sanders; Thomas Watson; telephone users; Mabel Bell
Synopsis: Bell looks for a way to improve the telegraph but in conjunction with Watson devises a way to transmit sound by wire and creates the telephone.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Pencils: Evans credited by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. and Saltarella.
Inks: Crandall credited by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. and Saltarella.
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Words without Wires

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): Typeset
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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Guglielmo Marconi; assistant; ship's crew; telegraph operator; Professor John Ambrose Fleming; Kemp
Synopsis: Marconi invents a radio transmitter to carry Morse Code which helps rescue seamen in distress in 1899. He then creates equipment to send a signal across the Atlantic and demonstrates his success in 1901.
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The Electronic Ear

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Sam Glanzman
Inker(s): Sam Glanzman
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Lee de Forest; Eugenia Farrar; naval wireless operator; World War I soldiers; David Sarnoff; Johanna Gadski; radio announcer; studio crew
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Includes two pages on how radio works.
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The Clue to Life

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, non-fiction, science and technology
Character(s): Medical Inspector-General Tadaki; Imperial Japanese Navy officials; Sir F. Gowland Hopkins
Synopsis: The Japanese navy works out a diet that eliminates shipboard scurvy. Later, Hopkins discovers the existence of vitamins.
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The Electronic Eye

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Tartaglione ?
Inker(s): John Tartaglione ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction, science and technology
Character(s): Teacher; students; surgeon; warden; technician; scientists; U. S. Navy commanders
Synopsis: How television was developed, and how it is used.
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Pages: 4
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Today and Tomorrow

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Edd Ashe ?
Inker(s): Edd Ashe ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction, science and technology
Character(s): Mother; child; hostess; guests; student; industrial workers; astronauts; athletes; police
Synopsis: How communications technology and uses may develop.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Pencils: Ashe suggested by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. and Saltarella.
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First Line: Read the best in the world's finest juvenile publication
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Disclose Notes: Promo for back issues of Classics Illustrated (HRN 154).
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Character(s): U. S. Marine
First Line: Subscribe now! Today!
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Disclose Notes: Subscription promo for The World Around Us.

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