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Issue: Four Color #1085
Publication Date: July 1960
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Issues: #1085 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: The Time Machine
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: Dell Movie ClassicView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/09/1960
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 "THE TIME MACHINE, No. 1085". Copyright 1960 by Loew's Incorporated.

"Movie Classic" on cover. Adapted from the 1960 movie "The Time Machine".

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 "July-September 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
Format Notes:  
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Original Artwork
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The Time Machine

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photos)
Inker(s): ? (photos)
Colorist(s): ? (photos)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, science fiction
Character(s): George (photo of Rod Taylor); Morloch (photo of ?)
Synopsis: Actor Rod Taylor as George is not given a last name in the film, but is believed to be portraying Herbert George Wells (H.G. Wells). When the time machine's control panel is shown in the film, a nameplate can be seen in the center that reads "Manufactured by H. George Wells". In the original novel, the character has no name, just "the Time Traveller".
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Presents, A George Pal Production, H.G. Wells' The Time Machine

Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, science fiction
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover divided into six panels; 1 listing film credits, the other 5 are pictures from the film.
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The Time Machine

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): George; David Filby; Mrs. Watchett (housekeeper); James Filby; Weena; various Morlochs
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 32
Job Number: T.T.M.O.S. #1085 603
Disclose Notes: Dell's pledge to parents is the last panel at the end of the story.
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About H.G. Wells

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): George Pal (credited)
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): George Pal (photo); Rod Taylor (photo)
Synopsis: One-page text biography of author H.G. Wells.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This was a one-page text biography of author H.G. Wells inside the back cover by "The Time Machine" movie producer/director George Pal. There is a small photo of Taylor and Pal accompanying the bio.
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): George (photo of Rod Taylor)
First Line: Starting in the year 1899...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: There are two different editions:
Some have a back cover with text about the movie, followed by photo of Rod Taylor in time machine.
The other edition has a back cover with a full-page ad for a Daisy air rifle.

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