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Issue: Four Color #1069
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Title: The FBI Story
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/17/1959
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 "THE FBI STORY, No. 1069." Code number is F.B.I. STORY O.S. #1069-5911. Copyright 1959 by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.

"Movie Classic" on cover. Adapted from the 1959 movie "The FBI Story."

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 "November 1959-January 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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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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The FBI Story

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
crime
Chip Hardesty (photo of James Stewart)
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Miscellaneous
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"The FBI Story"

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
crime
Chip Hardesty (photo of James Stewart); Sam Crandall (photo of Murray Hamilton)
Preview of the story.
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Inside front cover; black and white. Five photos and partial cast list and credits from the movie.
The FBI Story

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
crime
Chip Hardesty; Sam Crandall; George Crandall; Mike Hardesty; J. Edgar Hoover; Lucy Hardesty; Pretty Boy Floyd; John Dillinger (cameo); Machine Gun Kelly (cameo); Alvin Karpis (cameo)
The story of Federal Bureau of Investigation agent Chip Hardesty and his family through the years from the 1920s to the 1950s. Episodes involve the Ku Klux Klan, Indian murders over oil rights in Oklahoma, gangsters in the 1930s, enemy spies in World War II, and Communist spies in the 1950s.
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Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Adapted from the 1959 movie "The FBI Story."
FBI Agent in the Making

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
informational, non-fiction
Facts about the training of F.B.I. agents.
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Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with text underneath.
The FBI: Its Development and Astounding Progress

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
informational, non-fiction
J. Edgar Hoover (cameo)
A short history of the F.B.I.
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Back cover. Panels with text underneath.

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