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Issue: Four Color #972
Publication Date: January 1959
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Issues: #972 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: Tom Thumb
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 1958
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 6 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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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:  
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Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Notation
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (painting); ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (painting); ? (photo)
Colorist(s): ? (painting)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Tom Thumb (photo of Russ Tamblyn); Forest Queen (photo of June Thorburn)
First Line: The great big story about a daring little man!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagClásicos del Cine #30 published May 1959
as Las aventuras de [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ? (photographs)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
First Line: Right from the pages of Grimm Brothers' fairy tales comes Tom Thumb, the diminutive son of a woodcutter and his wife.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The inside front cover contains credits for the MGM movie plus five photographs with text descriptions.
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Tom Thumb

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Robert Shaefer
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
First Line: Long before smokestacks, oil derricks, and gas tanks etches the sky...
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In Content Item: FlagClásicos del Cine #30 published May 1959
as Pulgarcito [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 31.84
Job Number: O.S. #972-591
Disclose Notes: Adapted from Tom Thumb (1958; MGM) movie with the publisher & indicia information at the bottom of the first story page.
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A pledge to parents

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
First Line: The Dell Trademark is, and always has been, a positive guarantee that the comic magazine bearing it contains only clean and wholesome entertainment.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.16
Disclose Notes: Dell Comics pledge on the bottom right-corner of the last page of comic story.
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"Tom Thumb"... a Dream Come True

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ? (photographs)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): George Pal (photo)
First Line: From what at first seemed only a farfetched dream in the fertile mind of Hollywood Producer-Director George Pal, "tom thumb" has grown into a visible little boy, just five and one-half inches tall.
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In Content Item: FlagClásicos del Cine #30 published May 1959
as Las Aventuras de Pulgarcito... un Sueño Hecho Realidad [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The inside back cover contains a text article with four photographs including one of George Pal.
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Tom Thumb Pinup

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Colorist(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): Russ Tamblyn (signed)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Tom Thumb (photo of Russ Tamblyn with signature)
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The back cover contains a photo of Tom Thumb (actor Russ Tamblyn), with illustration elements added, which also includes the actor's signature.

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