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Issue: Four Color #1188
Publication Date: June 1961
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Issues: #1188 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: Atlantis, the Lost Continent
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: Dell [stamp]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/23/1961
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 5 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "ATLANTIS, THE LOST CONTINENT, No. 1188." Code number is ATLANTIS O.S. #1188-615. Copyright 1961 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.

Adapted from the 1961 movie "Atlantis, the Lost Continent."

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 1961" cover date.

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

An alternate version of this issue exists with ads and a text overprint on the black bar of the cover. See the index for Four Color #1188 [ad].
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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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Atlantis, the Lost Continent

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photos)
Inker(s): ? (photos)
Colorist(s): ? (photos)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, historical
Character(s): Demetrios (photo of Anthony Hall); Andes the Giant (photo of Robert Maffei [Big Buck Maffei])
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Atlantis, the Lost Continent

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photos)
Inker(s): ? (photos)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, historical
Character(s): Demetrios (photo of Anthony Hall); Andes the Giant (photo of Robert Maffei [Big Buck Maffei])
First Line: Demetrios, a Greek fisherman, rescues a beautiful princess and returns her to Atlantis, her faraway island homeland.
Synopsis: Preview of the story.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black and white. Five photos from the movie with a synopsis, plus a partial cast list.
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Atlantis, the Lost Continent

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, historical
Character(s): Demetrios; Petros; Antilla; King Kronos; Zaren; Sonoy; Xandros; Azor; Andes the Giant
First Line: Throughout the years, as far back as two thousand years ago, scholars have suggested the theory that a continent once existed in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean...
Synopsis: Demetrios, a Greek fisherman, rescues a beautiful princess and returns her to Atlantis, her faraway homeland. When he reaches the island, he is thrown into slavery and must fight a giant in order to regain his freedom. A volcanic eruption sends Atlantis under the sea as Demetrios and the princess escape.
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Pages: 32
Job Number: ATLANTIS O.S.#1188-615
Disclose Notes: Adapted from the 1961 movie "Atlantis the Lost Continent." The ad version of the story is only 28.75 pages long. See the index for Four Color #1188 [ad] for a detailed description of the cuts.
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Myth and Mystery

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
First Line: Atlantis was located 'beyond the Pillars of Hercules' -- the end of the then-known world.
Synopsis: Theories about Atlantis.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text underneath. This sequence is replaced by an ad in some copies.
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The Anatomy of a Volcano

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
First Line: Volcanoes are the result of underground heat.
Synopsis: Facts about volcanos.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. This sequence is replaced by an ad in some copies.

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