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Issue: Four Color #1060
Publication Date: December 1959
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Issues: #1060 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: Journey to the Center of the Earth
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: Dell Movie ClassicView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/10/1959
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 "JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, No. 1060". Code number is J.TO C. OF E. O.S. #1060-5911". Copyright 1959 by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.

"Movie Classic" on cover. Adapted from the 1959 movie "Journey to the Center of the Earth", based on the novel of the same name by Jules Verne.

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.

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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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Journey to the Center of the Earth

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Colorist(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Prof. Oliver Lindenbrook (photo of James Mason); Alec McEwen (photo of Pat Boone); Mrs. Carla Goetaborg (photo of Arlene Dahl); Hans Belker (photo of Peter Ronson)
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Journey to the Center of the Earth

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Prof. Oliver Lindenbrook (photo of James Mason); Alec McEwen (photo of Pat Boone); Mrs. Carla Goetaborg (photo of Arlene Dahl); Hans Belker (photo of Peter Ronson)
Synopsis: Preview of the story.
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Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black and white. Five photos from the movie and partial list of cast and credits.
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Journey To the Center of the Earth

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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Prof. Oliver Lindenbrook; Alec McEwen; Mrs. Carla Goetaborg; Hans Belker; Count Saknussemm (villain); Gertrude the duck
Synopsis: After finding a mysterious message inscribed on a plumb bob found inside a piece of lava, Prof. Lindenbrook and his student Alec McEwen mount an expedition to descend into the Snaeffel-Jokull, an extinct volcano in Iceland. They are joined by Hans, a native guide, and Mrs. Goetaborg, the widow of Lindenbrook's rival. In addition to the natural menaces of the trip into the Earth's interior, they must also contend with another explorer, Count Saknussemm, who is determined to be the only one to return.
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Pages: 32
Disclose Notes: Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents". Adapted from the 1959 movie "Journey to the Center of the Earth", based on the novel of the same name by Jules Verne. Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
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Filming the Depths of the Earth...

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ? (photos)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Character(s): Alec McEwen (photo of Pat Boone)
Synopsis: Facts about shooting the film in the Carlsbad Caverns of New Mexico.
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black and white. Two photos with typeset text.
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Pat Boone

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Inker(s): ? (photo)
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Character(s): Pat Boone
Synopsis: Pat Boone in casual pose with facsimile signature.
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Disclose Notes: Back cover. Black and white photo with background cropped out and replaced by color triangles in abstract design.

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