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Issue: Classic Comics #5

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Publication Date: September 1942

Issue #5
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- #1 [HRN 20]
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- #2 [HRN 20]
- #3
- #4
- ✓ #5
- #6
- #7
- #8
- #9
- #10
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- #14 [HRN 21]
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Issues: #5 of 38 Issues (82 Printings)

Title: Moby Dick

Variant: HRN 15

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Publisher: Flag

Gilberton

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Indicia Publisher: Gilberton Corporation

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: none

Pages: 68

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Price: none entered

Indicia Frequency: none

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
6 (2 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): John Compton

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard golden age U. S.

Paper Stock:

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Variants4

Classic Comics #5 [unnamed variant]

Classic Comics #5 [HRN 10]

Classic Comics #5 [HRN 15]

Classic Comics #5 [HRN 28]

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Content Items (6 total)

Moby Dick

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): Louis Zansky

Inker(s): Louis Zansky

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?; typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, drama

Character(s): whalers; Moby Dick

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Pages: 1

Notes: Whalemen are in deadly battle with Moby Dick.

Moby Dick

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Herman Melville (original novel); Al Kanter (adaptation)

Penciller(s): Louis Zansky

Inker(s): Louis Zansky

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Fred Eng

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, drama

Character(s): Ishmael; Queequeg; Captain Ahab; Starbuck; Moby Dick

Synopsis: Despite dire warnings, Ishmael and Queequeg sign aboard the Pequod to sail under Captain Ahab. Obsessed to kill the whale that took his leg, Ahab drives the crew in pursuit of Moby Dick despite sense, safety, appeals to humanity, or the pleadings of first mate Starbuck. The final confrontation kills the whale and destroys the ship. Ishmael alone escapes, and the sea rolls on.

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Pages: 61

Notes: Based upon the 1851 novel by Herman Melville. Includes three single-panel conceptual splash pages introducing chapters.

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Illustration on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Al Kanter ?

Penciller(s): Louis Zansky ?

Inker(s): Louis Zansky ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: nature, non-fiction

First Line: Whales are the largest of animals and they belong to the Pelagic species

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 0.25

Notes: Illustration, with descriptions, of right whale and sperm whale

The Pequod

Illustration on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): Louis Zansky ?

Inker(s): Louis Zansky ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: historical, non-fiction

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Pages: 0.75

Notes: Cutaway diagram of a whaling ship

Highlights in the Life of Herman Melville

Text Article on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Louis Zansky ?

Inker(s): Louis Zansky ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: biography, non-fiction

Character(s): Herman Melville

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Pages: 1

Notes: Life of Melville. Spot illustration of Melville. Footer promoting War Bonds.

Concord Hymn

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Ralph Waldo Emerson

Penciller(s): Louis Zansky (signed)

Inker(s): Louis Zansky (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: historical, war

Character(s): Minutemen; citizens of Concord

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Pages: 1

Notes: Text of Emerson's poem; illustrations by Zansky.