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Issue: Four Color #1088
Publication Date: April 1960
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Issues: #1088 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: A Dog of Flanders
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: Dell Movie ClassicView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/18/1960
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 6 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "A DOG OF FLANDERS, No. 1088." Code number is DOG OF F.O.S. #1088-604. Copyright 1960 by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.

"Movie Classic" on cover. Adapted from the 1960 movie "A Dog of Flanders."

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 an "April-June 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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A Dog of Flanders

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Colorist(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, historical
Character(s): Nello Daas (photo of David Ladd); Patrasche (dog, photo)
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Pages: 1
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A Dog of Flanders

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, historical
Character(s): Nello Daas (photo of David Ladd); Jehan Daas (photo of Donald Crisp); Piet van Gelder (photo of Theodore Bikel); the Peddler (photo of John Soer)
Synopsis: Preview of the story.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black and white. Five photos and a partial cast and credits list from the movie.
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A Dog of Flanders

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, historical, nature
Character(s): Nello Daas; Jehan Daas; Piet van Gelder; Patrasche (dog)
Synopsis: Young Nello Daas is an aspiring artist who lives with his elderly grandfather. The two take in a cruelly-treated dog and nurse him back to health. Nello befriends an artist, who helps him when his grandfather dies and he is left on his own.
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Pages: 32
Disclose Notes: Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents". Some faces penciled by Dan Spiegle. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Based on the 1960 movie "A Dog of Flanders."
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An Artist of Flanders

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Character(s): Peter Paul Ruebens
Synopsis: Facts about the life of Flemish master artist Peter Paul Ruebens.
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text underneath. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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"Visit" Hawaii for Only 10¢

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Disclose Notes: Back cover; color. Illustrated ad for "Know Your America" series of books and stickers from American Geographical Society, Garden City, N.Y.
This advertisement replaced by comic sequence on some copies (see sequence 5).
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The Timeless Land of Flanders

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
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Disclose Notes: This sequence replaced by advertisement on some copies (see sequence 4).

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