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Issue: Four Color #1006
Publication Date: July 1959
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Issues: #1006 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: Hercules
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: Dell A Movie ClassicView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/26/1959
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 5 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "HERCULES, No. 1006." Code number is HERCULES.O.S. #1006-597. Copyright 1959 by Oscar Film, S.P.A, and Galatea, S.P.A.

"Movie Classic" on cover. Adapted from the 1958 movie "Le Fatiche di Ercole", translated into English and released in the United States in 1959 as "Hercules".

No month is given on the cover or in the indicia. Based on the copyright dates of this issue and others in the series released around the same time, one can determine that this issue was published with other Four Color issues bearing a "July-September 1959" cover date.

On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date.
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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
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Hercules

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (painting)
Inker(s): ? (painting)
Colorist(s): ? (painting)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical
Feature(s): Hercules
Character(s): Hercules
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Hercules

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical
Character(s): Hercules (photos of Steve Reeves)
Synopsis: Preview of the story.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black and white. Five stills from the movie plus partial cast and credits list.
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Hercules

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: historical
Feature(s): Hercules
Character(s): Hercules; Princess Jole; Ulysses; Jason
Synopsis: Subject to a tyrant king's commands, Hercules must endure many tests of strength then sail in search of the Golden Fleece. Finally, he must overthrow the evil monarch's rule in order to restore the rightful king to his throne.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 32
Disclose Notes: Adapted from the 1958 Italian movie "Le Fatiche di Ercole", released in the United States in 1959 as "Hercules". Synopsis is taken from sequence one of this issue. Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Paul S. Newman's personal records. (August 4, 2007).
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Greek Warfare

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Synopsis: Facts about the equipment and strategy used by the Greeks in war.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black and white. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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The Labors of Hercules

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical
Feature(s): Hercules
Character(s): Hercules; Atlas (cameo)
Synopsis: Some of the 12 labors of Hercules from the Greek myths.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover; color. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

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