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Issue: Four Color #1199
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Title: Walt Disney's The Absent Minded Professor
Variant: unnamed
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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): Alice Nielson Cobb (managing editor); Chase Craig and/or Del Connell (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
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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Disclose Format
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:  
Disclose Reprinted From0
There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
Disclose Images2
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 

Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets1
 
 
The Absent Minded Professor

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
? (photo)
? (photo)
? (photo)
Subject Matter
adventure
Walt Disney's The Absent Minded Professor
Reprinting
FlagWalt Disney Presents Shaggy Dog and the Absent-Minded Professor #[nn] published August 1967
as Walt Disney Presents Shaggy Dog and The Absent-Minded Professor [Illustration on Cover, Front]edited
 
Miscellaneous
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The Absent-Minded Professor

Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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? (photo)
? (photo)
typeset
Subject Matter
adventure
Walt Disney's The Absent Minded Professor
Reprinting
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)]
 
Miscellaneous
1
In some editions of this issue, the photos have been replaced by an ad "Announcing the Wonderful New Dell Comics Contest."
The Absent-Minded Professor

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
John Ushler
John Ushler
? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Walt Disney's The Absent Minded Professor
Reprinting
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)]
FlagWalt Disney's Comics Digest #6 published August 1987
as The Absent-Minded Professor [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
32
In some variant editons 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.
Pioneer Inventors

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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John Ushler
John Ushler
typeset
Subject Matter
informational
Samuel Hopkins; Elias Howe; Alexander Graham Bell; Eli Whitney
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Miscellaneous
1
Fabulous Formula

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
John Ushler
John Ushler
? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
typeset
Subject Matter
informational
Christopher Columbus; Charles Goodyear
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
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 30ยข 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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