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Issue: Four Color #1176
Publication Date: January 1961
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Issues: #1176 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: Dondi
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: Dell Movie ClassicView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/10/1960
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: none entered
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Paul R. Lilly (executive vice-president)
Disclose Notes: "Movie Classic" on cover. Adapted from the 1961 movie "Dondi".

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 "January-March 1961" cover date.

On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date.

The comic has two versions of 36 pages with different inside cover contents. One contains photo stories on the Dondi movie, another with a two page Joe Certa story.
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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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Adult Image
Title Page
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Dondi

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Colorist(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Character(s): Dondi (photo of David Kory)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Photo and illustration.
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Dondi

Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ? (photographs)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Feature(s): Dondi
Character(s): Dondi (photographs of David Kory); Dealey (photographs of David Janssen); Liz (photograph of Patti Page); Sergeant (photograph of Mickey Shaughnessy); Peewee (photograph of Arnold Stang)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Not all actors photographed are identifiable.

Does not appear in all editions of this comic, replaced with a Joe Certa story instead.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Inside front and back covers.

Does not appear on all editions of this series. Is often replaced with features on the Dondi movie.
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Dondi

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Feature(s): Dondi
Character(s): Dondi
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 32
Disclose Notes: Script submitted on July 15, 1960. Script credit from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).
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A Dream Comes True

Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ? (photographs)
Colorist(s): ? (photographs)
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
Feature(s): Dondi
Character(s): David Kory (actor); Irwin Hasen (Dondi creator); Gus Edson (screenwriter)
Synopsis: A brief story about actor David Kory, a Los Angeles native who plays Dondi. Includes two photos, one of Kory and one of Kory's sixth birthday party showing him cutting his birthday cake along with Dondi creator Irwin Hasen and Dondi screenwriter Gus Edson.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.

Does not appear in all editions of this comic, replaced with a Joe Certa story instead.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ? (photograph); ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (photograph); ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational
Feature(s): Daisy Manufacturing Company
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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