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Issue: Four Color #1121
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Title: Hercules Unchained
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
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Publisher: FlagDell
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/16/1960
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 "HERCULES UNCHAINED, No. 1121". Copyright 1960 by Galatea, S.P.A.

"Movie Classic" on cover. Adapted from the 1959 movie "Ercole e la Regina di Lidia", translated into English and released in the United States in 1960 as "Hercules Unchained".

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 "August-October 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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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
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Subject Matter
adventure, historical
Hecules Unchained
Hercules
Mighty Hercules battles man-eating tigers and an enemy army to save a besieged kingdom!
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Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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adventure, historical
Hecules Unchained
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Inside front cover includes credits and four scenes from the movie.
Hercules Unchained

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Miscellaneous
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Adapted from the 1960 Warner Bros movie "Hercules Unchained." Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Paul S. Newman's personal records (November 2007).
The Feats of Hercules

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Subject Matter
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Hercules
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Inside back cover; black and white.

We formerly suggested both pencils and inks as by Reed Crandall and/or George Evans, but Roger Hill doesn't see any Crandall or Evans on this page.
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Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Hercules
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Back cover. Scene from the movie.

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