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Issue: The World Around Us #27
Publication Date: November 1960
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Issues: #27 of 36 Issues
Title: The Illustrated Story of High Adventure
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagGilberton
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Indicia Publisher: Gilberton World-Wide Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
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Content Items: 19 (13 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Roberta Strauss Feuerlicht
Disclose Notes: Splash page reads "High Adventure: The Illustrated Story of Men Against Mountains."

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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 #516 [unnamed variant] published January 1961 Page count is less than that of the Gilberton issue so some stories are either omitted, edited, or both
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Penciller(s): ? (painting)
Inker(s): ? (painting)
Colorist(s): ? (painting)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Mountain climbers
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Table of Contents

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Letterer(s): Typeset
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Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Also includes indicia, list of editors, and list of European Advisory Board members.
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High Adventure

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Evans
Inker(s): George Evans
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
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Disclose Notes: Full-page splash panel
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The Highest Mountain

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Sherpas; British mountain climbers; John Hunt; Edmund Hillary; Tenzing Norkey
Synopsis: After Everest is identified as the world's highest peak repeated attempts are made to climb it, some ending in death. In 1953 Tenzing and Hillary succeed.
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How Mountains Are Made

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Norman Nodel ?
Inker(s): Norman Nodel ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction, science and technology
Synopsis: Types of mountains, and how geological forces bring them into being.
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Pages: 6
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Men of the Mountains

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Charles Berger ?
Inker(s): Charles Berger ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Prehistoric people; Abyssinians; Tibetans; Incans
Synopsis: In the Andes Mountains the Incan people carve out a life, an empire, and an enduring culture.
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Conquering the Barriers

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gerald McCann
Inker(s): Gerald McCann
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): t
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Ancient warriors; Alexander the Great; Genghis Khan; Vandals; Visigoths; American pioneers
Synopsis: Mountains create formidable barriers, but with incentive people cross those barriers, often in large numbers. Today we even make use of mountains for many helpful purposes.
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In Seas and Space

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: non-fiction, science and technology
Synopsis: Description of mountains worldwide, and underwater, and on the moon.
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The Homes of the Gods

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gray Morrow
Inker(s): Gray Morrow
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Zeus; Giants; Athena
Synopsis: The Giants and the gods do battle, making and unmaking mountains in the process.
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The Fiery Mound

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Sam Glanzman ?; Jack Abel ?
Inker(s): Sam Glanzman ?; Jack Abel ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Mexican farmers
Synopsis: The rise of Paricutin, and the history of other noted volcanoes.
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The Father of Mountaineering

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ernie Hart
Inker(s): Ernie Hart
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Horace Benedict de Sausurre; Jacques Balmat; Michael Gabriel Paccard; guides
Synopsis: Sausurre's expedition, reaching the top of Mont Blanc and conducting scientific experiments there, begins to popularize mountaineering.
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Fun and Danger

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gerald McCann
Inker(s): Gerald McCann
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Al; Bill; Bernie; skier; Alpine residents; pilot; official; Swiss soldiers
Synopsis: Bernie shows Al and Bill safe practices for mountain climbing. In the Swiss Alps avalanches are a constant threat. People there must learn to live with them safely.
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The Mysterious Footprints

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Sam Glanzman
Inker(s): Sam Glanzman
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Colonel W. A. Waddell; porters; explorers; monk; prospectors; Klavs Becker-Larsen; Tenzing Norkey
Synopsis: Colonel Waddell finds curious footprints and hears reports of the Yeti. Subsequent investigations find no evidence of such a creature, although Tenzing and others are convinced that it exists.
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The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Samuel Clemens [Mark Twain] (original story)
Penciller(s): George Peltz ?
Inker(s): George Peltz ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Jim Smiley; stranger; Dan'l Webster (frog)
Synopsis: Jim Smiley bets forty dollars that his frog Dan'l Webster can out-jump any frog in the county. Jim's opponent surreptitiously feeds Dan'l Webster with a spoonful of quail-shot, and so wins the bet.
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D-Day Part 1: The Key to Victory

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Evans
Inker(s): George Evans
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, non-fiction, war
Feature(s): D-Day
Character(s): Adolf Hitler; Winston Churchill; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Dwight D. Eisenhower; German soldiers; British soldiers; Canadian soldiers; American soldiers; commandos
Synopsis: The Axis powers are very successful with their invasions and attacks in 1939, 1940 and 1941. By 1943, though, the Allies are pushing back. They make plans for D-Day -- the invasion to begin the recapture of Europe -- in earnest.
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The Red Planet Part 1: The True Orbit

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Norman Nodel
Inker(s): Norman Nodel
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction, science and technology
Feature(s): The Red Planet
Character(s): Prehistoric men; ancient Greeks; Mavors [Mars]; Ptolemy; Nicolaus Copernicus; Johann Kepler
Synopsis: In ancient and prehistoric times, people puzzle over Mars and its movements. Ptolemy proposes an epicyclical motion, which Copernicus vastly improves to a model of circular motion. Kepler finally demonstrates the correct elliptical motion.
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Disclose Notes: Astronomy; Mars; muthology
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How Grass Holds Water

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Letterer(s): Typeset
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Genres: non-fiction, science and technology
Feature(s): The World of Science
Synopsis: A demonstration to observe the water-retentive character of various surfaces.
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Feature(s): Classics Illustrated
First Line: Read the best in the world's finest juvenile publication
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover. HRN 156.
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Feature(s): The World Around Us
Character(s): U.S. Marine
First Line: Subscribe now! Today!
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Disclose Notes: Back cover

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