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Issue: Classics Illustrated #5

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Publication Date: September 1951

Detail

Issues: #5 of 323 Issues (607 Printings)

Title: Moby Dick

Variant: unnamed

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Publisher: Flag

Gilberton

Brand: Classics Illustrated

Indicia Publisher: Gilberton Company Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: none

Pages: 68

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Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency: none

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
6 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.

Paper Stock: cover stock varies from regular glossy to stiff glossy; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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2 Classics Illustrated #5 [unnamed variant]

Classics Illustrated #5 [HRN 60] [unnamed variant]

2 Classics Illustrated #5 [unnamed variant]

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Content Items (6 total)

Moby Dick

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?; typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, drama

Character(s): whalers; Moby Dick

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Pages: 1

Notes: Whalemen are in deadly battle with Moby Dick.

Moby Dick

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, drama

Character(s): Ishmael; Queequeg; Captain Ahab; Starbuck; Moby Dick

Synopsis: Despite dire warnings, Ishmael and Queequeg sign aboard the Pequod to sail under Captain Ahab. Obsessed to kill the whale that took his leg, Ahab drives the crew in pursuit of Moby Dick despite sense, safety, appeals to humanity, or the pleadings of first mate Starbuck. The final confrontation kills the whale and destroys the ship. Ishmael alone escapes, and the sea rolls on.

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Pages: 61

Notes: Based upon the 1851 novel by Herman Melville. Includes three single-panel conceptual splash pages introducing chapters.

The Pequod

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: historical, non-fiction

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Pages: 0.75

Notes: Cutaway diagram of a whaling ship

[untitled]

Illustration on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: nature, non-fiction

First Line: Whales are the largest of animals and they belong to the Pelagic species

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Pages: 0.25

Notes: Illustration, with descriptions, of right whale and sperm whale

Highlights in the Life of Herman Melville

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: biography, non-fiction

Character(s): Herman Melville

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Pages: 1

Notes: Life of Melville. Spot illustration of Melville. Footer promoting War Bonds.

Concord Hymn

Cartoon on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: historical, war

Character(s): Minutemen; citizens of Concord

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Pages: 1

Notes: Text of Emerson's poem; illustrations by Zansky.