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Issue: Four Color #1117
Publication Date: June 1960
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Issues: #1117 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: The Boy and the Pirates
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: Dell Movie ClassicView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/14/1960
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 "THE BOY AND THE PIRATES, No. 1117." Code number is B.+P.O.S. #117-606. Copyright 1960 by Bert I. Gordon Productions, Inc.

"Movie Classic" on cover. Adapted from the 1960 movie "The Boy and the Pirates."

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 "June-August 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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The Boy and the Pirates

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Colorist(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, fantasy
Character(s): Jimmy Warren (photo of Charles Herbert); Blackbeard the Pirate (photo of Murvyn Vye)
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Pages: 1
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The Boy and the Pirates

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photos)
Inker(s): ? (photos)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, fantasy
Character(s): Jimmy Warren (photo of Charles Herbert); Blackbeard the Pirate (photo of Murvyn Vye); Abu the Genie (photo of Joe Turkel)
Synopsis: Preview of the story.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black and white. Five photos from the movie plus a partial cast list.
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The Boy and the Pirates

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bert I. Gordon (movie story); Lillie Hayward (movie screenplay); Jerry Sackheim (movie screenplay)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, fantasy
Character(s): Jimmy Warren; Kathy Van Kief; Blackbeard the Pirate; Abu the Genie
Synopsis: A boy is magically transported back in time to the ship of Blackbeard the Pirate by a bottle imp. The boy must return the bottle to the exact spot in seven days or take the imp's place inside it.
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Pages: 32
Disclose Notes: Adapted from the 1960 movie "The Boy and the Pirates." Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

Writer credit from Martin O'Hearn.
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Pirates of New England

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Character(s): Capt. John Phillips; Bartholomew Roberts; Capt. Henry Johnson; Blackbeard
Synopsis: A review of the pirates that operated off the coast of New England in the 18th Century.
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black and white. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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The Boy and the Pirates

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photos)
Inker(s): ? (photos)
Colorist(s): ? (photos)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, fantasy
Character(s): Jimmy Warren (photo of Charles Herbert); Blackbeard the Pirate (photo of Murvyn Vye); Abu the Genie (photo of Joe Turkel)
Synopsis: Preview of the story.
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Disclose Notes: Back cover. Three black and white photos from the movie, with monochrome overlays.
The sequence replaced by advertisement on some copies (see sequence 5).
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Science Program
First Line: You're off to a thrilling adventure... in the wonderful world of flight!
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for Science Activity Kit.

The sequence replaced by illustration on some copies (see sequence 4).

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