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Issue: Four Color #1070
Publication Date: December 1959
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Issues: #1070 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: Solomon and Sheba
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 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "SOLOMON AND SHEBA, No. 1070". Code number is SOLOMON+S.O.S. #1070-5912. Copyright 1959 by Theme Pictures, S.A.

"Movie Classic" on cover. Adapted from the 1959 movie "Solomon and Sheba".

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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Solomon and Sheba

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photos)
Inker(s): ? (photos)
Colorist(s): ? (photos)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: historical
Character(s): Solomon (photo of Yul Brynner); Magda [Queen of Sheba] (photo of Gina Lollobrigida)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Solomon and Sheba

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photos)
Inker(s): ? (photos)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical
Character(s): Solomon (photo of Yul Brynner); Magda [Queen of Sheba] (photo of Gina Lollobrigida)
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 list of cast and credits.
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Solomon and Sheba

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: historical
Character(s): King Solomon; Magda, Queen of Sheba; Adonijah; King David; Nathan; Josiah; Abishag
Synopsis: After King David's death, Solomon is named King of Israel. As Israel's strength grows under Solomon's rule, its neighbors become uneasy. The Pharaoh of Egypt and Magda, Queen of Sheba, come up with a plan to use Magda's charms to capture Solomon's affection and weaken Israel so that Pharaoh's army can attack it.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 32
Job Number: 1070-5912
Disclose Notes: Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents".

Adapted from the 1959 United Artists movie "Solomon and Sheba".

Script submitted July 3, 1959. Script credit from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).
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The Kings of Israel

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Character(s): Samson; Saul; David; Solomon
Synopsis: Brief overview of the kings of Israel.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black and white.

Script submitted on June 29, 1959. Script credit from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).
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Solomon and Sheba

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photos)
Inker(s): ? (photos)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical
Synopsis: Preview of the story.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover; two black and white stills from the movie with typeset text on an orange background.

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