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Issue: Four Color #1006
Publication Date: July 1959
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Issues: #1006 of 1331 Issues (1412 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: (not set)
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): Chase Craig ?
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. Adapted from the 1959 movie "Hercules."
"Movie Classic" on cover.
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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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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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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
Writer(s): Paul S. Newman
Penciller(s): John Buscema
Inker(s): John Buscema
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): John Duffy
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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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): ?
Penciller(s): John Buscema
Inker(s): John Buscema
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational
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): ?
Penciller(s): John Buscema
Inker(s): John Buscema
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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