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Issue: Four Color #1199
Publication Date: May 1961
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Issues: #1199 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: Walt Disney's The Absent Minded Professor
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: Dell [stamp]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/16/1961
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 5 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Adapted from the 1961 movie "The Absent Minded Professor".

Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994).

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 "May-July 1961" 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
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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The Absent Minded Professor

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Colorist(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Walt Disney's The Absent Minded Professor
Character(s): Ned Brainard (photo of Fred MacMurray); Betsy Carlisle (photo of Nancy Olson)
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney Presents Shaggy Dog and the Absent-Minded Professor #[nn] published August 1967
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]edited
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Absent-Minded Professor

Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Walt Disney's The Absent Minded Professor
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney Presents Shaggy Dog and the Absent-Minded Professor #[nn] published August 1967
as The Absent-Minded Professor [Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: In some editions of this issue, the photos have been replaced by an ad "Announcing the Wonderful New Dell Comics Contest."
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The Absent-Minded Professor

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Walt Disney's The Absent Minded Professor
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney Presents Shaggy Dog and the Absent-Minded Professor #[nn] published August 1967
as Walt Disney's The Absent-Minded Professor [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Comics Digest #6 [unnamed variant] published August 1987
as Walt Disney's the Absent Minded Professor [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 32
Disclose Notes: In some variant editions of this issue, pages 16 and 17 (the centerfold) have been dropped and replaced by an ad for the "Dell Trading Post." On page 32, the final half-page panel has been dropped and replaced by an ad for Jumping Jacks Shoes.
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Pioneer Inventors

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Character(s): Samuel Hopkins; Elias Howe; Alexander Graham Bell; Eli Whitney
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Fabulous Formula

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Character(s): Christopher Columbus; Charles Goodyear
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: In some editions of this issue, the one-page story "Fabulous Formula" has been dropped and replaced with an ad for Twinkles cereal and a mail-away offer for three Twinkles "Magic Sponge Toys," available for 30¢ and one boxtop from Twinkles cereal. The sponge toys are in the shape of Twinkles the elephant, Sanford the parrot and Wilbur the monkey.

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