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Issue: Four Color #1052
Publication Date: December 1959
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Issues: #1052 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: Ben Hur
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: Dell Movie ClassicView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/15/1959
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 5 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "Ben Hur, No. 1052" (no hyphen in indicia title, hyphen in cover title). Code number is B.HUR O.S. #1052-5911. Copyright 1959 by Loew's Incorporated.

"Movie Classic" on cover. Adapted from the 1959 movie "Ben-Hur".

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 "December 1959-February 1960" 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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MGM's Ben-Hur

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical
Character(s): Ben-Hur
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover art credit from "Sam Savitt Checklist" in Illustration Magazine Vol 1, #4 (August 2002).
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Ben-Hur

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical
Character(s): Ben-Hur; Messala
Synopsis: Preview of the story.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black and white. Four illustrations with typeset text. Movie poster with partial cast and credits list is also printed.
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Ben-Hur

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: historical
Character(s): Judah Ben-Hur; Messala; Quintus Arrius; Tiberius; Pontius Pilate (cameo); Joseph; Mary; Jesus Christ
Synopsis: Messala returns to Jerusalem to become commander of the Roman Legion there. He meets a childhood friend, Prince Judah Ben-Hur, who is the richest man in the city. Massala asks him to put down a possible rebellion by the Jews. Ben-Hur refuses and is sentenced to be a galley slave. After three years on the galleys, he saves the life of Commander Quintus Arrius during a sea battle and is given his freedom, though not allowed to return to Judea. He becomes an expert chariot racer and is rewarded by being named Arrius' heir. He is able to return to Judea, where he challenges Messala to a chariot race to the death. While all this is happening, the story of Jesus Christ is being told in the background.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 32
Disclose Notes: Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Adapted from the 1959 movie "Ben-Hur," based on the Lew Wallace novel of the same name. Though the Christ story plays an important part in the plot, Jesus is never directly referred to by name and his face is never depicted. Letters credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
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Ben-Hur

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photos)
Inker(s): ? (photos)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Synopsis: Facts about the movie.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black and white. Three photos from the movie with typeset text.
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Ben-Hur

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photos)
Inker(s): ? (photos)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Synopsis: Facts about the movie and its production.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Collage of blue-tinted photos from the movie surrounding typeset text.

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