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Issue: Classic Comics #5
Publication Date: September 1942
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Issues: #5 of 38 Issues (82 Printings)
Title: Moby Dick
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagGilberton
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Indicia Publisher: Gilberton Corporation
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 6 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): John Compton
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard golden age U. S.
Paper Stock:  
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Disclose Images1
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Moby Dick

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Louis Zansky
Inker(s): Louis Zansky
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, drama
Character(s): whalers; Moby Dick
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagClassics Illustrated #5 [unnamed variant] published April 1947
as Moby Dick [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Whalemen are in deadly battle with Moby Dick.
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Moby Dick

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Herman Melville (original novel); Al Kanter (adaptation)
Penciller(s): Louis Zansky
Inker(s): Louis Zansky
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Fred Eng
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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In Content Item: FlagClassics Illustrated #5 [unnamed variant] published April 1947
as Moby Dick [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 61
Disclose Notes: Based upon the 1851 novel by Herman Melville. Includes three single-panel conceptual splash pages introducing chapters.
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Kanter ?
Penciller(s): Louis Zansky ?
Inker(s): Louis Zansky ?
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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In Content Item: FlagClassics Illustrated #5 [unnamed variant] published April 1947
as [untitled] [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.25
Disclose Notes: Illustration, with descriptions, of right whale and sperm whale
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The Pequod

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Louis Zansky ?
Inker(s): Louis Zansky ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, non-fiction
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In Content Item: FlagClassics Illustrated #5 [unnamed variant] published April 1947
as The Pequod [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.75
Disclose Notes: Cutaway diagram of a whaling ship
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Highlights in the Life of Herman Melville

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Louis Zansky ?
Inker(s): Louis Zansky ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Herman Melville
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In Content Item: FlagClassics Illustrated #5 [unnamed variant] published April 1947
as Highlights in the Life of Herman Melville [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Life of Melville. Spot illustration of Melville. Footer promoting War Bonds.
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Concord Hymn

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ralph Waldo Emerson
Penciller(s): Louis Zansky (signed)
Inker(s): Louis Zansky (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, war
Character(s): Minutemen; citizens of Concord
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagClassics Illustrated #5 [unnamed variant] published April 1947
as Concord Hymn [Cartoon on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Text of Emerson's poem; illustrations by Zansky.

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