XOW Logo
  • Location
    • Home
    • Issue Detail, List Content Items
in for
   
by
Facebook Logo
Report a Bug Ask for Support Review Site Apply to be an Editor
Issue: Four Color #717
Publication Date: August 1956
Previous Base Issue Previous Issue Variant Next Issue Variant Next Base Issue
 
Disclose Detail
Issues: #717 of 1331 Issues (1412 Printings)
Title: Moby Dick
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: Dell A Movie ClassicView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 3 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "MOBY DICK, No. 717."
Code number is M.D.O.S. #717-568.
Copyright 1956 by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. Adapted from the 1956 Warner Bros. movie "Moby Dick."
"Movie Classic" on cover.
  Does this data need corrections? Become an editor.
Disclose Format
Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In0
There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted anywhere.
Disclose Reprinted From0
There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
Disclose Images2
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets0
 
spacer
Disclose Content Items (3 total)
Disclose Issue Images
Moby Dick

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photo); ? (painting)
Inker(s): ? (photo); ? (painting)
Colorist(s): ? (photo); ? (painting)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Captain Ahab (photo of Gregory Peck)
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover is photo of Gregory Peck with painted background.
Disclose
Moby Dick

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photos)
Inker(s): ? (photos)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Captain Ahab (photos of Gregory Peck); Ishmael (photos of Richard Basehart); Peleg (photo of Mervyn Johns)
Synopsis: Preview of the story.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black and white. Seven photos from the movie and a partial cast list.
Disclose
Moby Dick

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Herman Melville (original story); Ray Bradbury (screenplay); John Huston (screenplay); Paul S. Newman (comic adaptation)
Penciller(s): Frank Thorne [as F. T.] (signed)
Inker(s): Frank Thorne [as F. T.] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Captain Ahab; Ishmael; Queequeg; Mr. Stubb
Synopsis: Ishmael and his native friend Queequeg sign on as crew members on the whaler Pequod, whose Captain Ahab embarks on a mission to hunt down the great white whale, Moby Dick.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 34
Disclose Notes: Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on the back cover in color.

The last panel of the inside back cover (in the middle of the story) is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents."

Adapted from the 1956 Warner Bros. movie "Moby Dick," which was based on the 1851 novel "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville.

Script credit suggested by Who's Who of American Comic Books 1928-1999 website.

Site designed and hosted by XOWTech, Inc..
Any questions or problems with this site should be directed to REMOVE-webmaestro-THESE@xowcomics.com.

XOW, XOWComics.com, XOWTech and XOWTech.com are registered trademarks of XOWTech, Inc.
© XOWTech, Inc., 2010 - 2024. All rights reserved.

Some data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license.