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Issue: Four Color #1240

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Publication Date: November 1961

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Detail

Issues: #1240 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)

Title: The Detectives

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Dell

Brand: Dell [stamp]

Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.

On Sale Date: 08/10/1961

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.15 USD

Indicia Frequency: none

Content Items: 8 (4 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): ?

Notes: Indicia title is "THE DETECTIVES, No. 1240." Code number is DETECTIVES O.S. #1240-6111. Copyright 1961 by Four Star-Hastings. Based on the ABC and NBC TV series "The Detectives, Starring Robert Taylor."
On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date.
Inside front cover and back cover sequences are replaced by ads in some copies. In the ad copies, the inside back cover is in color.

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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

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Content Items (8 total)

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Illustration on Cover, Front

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Penciller(s): ? (photo)

Inker(s): ? (photo)

Colorist(s): ? (photo)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Feature(s): The Detectives

Character(s): Matt Holbrook (photo of Robert Taylor)

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Pages: 1

The Detectives

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)

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Inker(s): ? (photos)

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Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Feature(s): The Detectives

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Pages: 1

Notes: Inside front cover. Photos and art. This sequence is replaced by an ad in some copies. See sequence 3. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

Yogi Bear Milk Mug and Huck Hound Cereal Bowl

Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

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Character(s): Yogi Bear; Huckleberry Hound (cameo)

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Pages: 1

Notes: Inside front cover; color. Illustrated ad for Kellogg's OKs breakfast cereal. Premium is a plastic Yogi Bear Milk Mug and Huck Hound Cereal bowl set for 50 cents and one OKs box top.

Hit and Run

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Feature(s): The Detectives

Character(s): Matt Holbrook; Johnny Russo; Chris Ballard; Otto Lindstrom

Synopsis: Detective Captain Matt Holbrook and his team of detectives have to solve a hit-and-run automobile accident that kills a man.

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Pages: 18

Notes: Script, pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

Cousin Rat

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Feature(s): The Detectives

Character(s): Matt Holbrook; Johnny Russo; Otto Lindstrom; Chris Ballard

Synopsis: Steve Russo, Johnny Russo's cousin, is picked up on a petty larceny charge. Steve, who looks just like Johnny, claims he has a big business deal the next morning and Johnny investigates. Johnny is mistaken for Steve and plays along with a gang planning to hijack an armored truck.

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Pages: 14

Notes: Script, pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

Black Light

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Genres: informational, non-fiction

Feature(s): The Detectives

Synopsis: Facts about the use of ultraviolet rays in police work.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Inside back cover. Some copies have this sequence in black and white; others have it in color, depending on whether there is an ad on the inside front cover. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

Telltale Evidence

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: informational, non-fiction

Feature(s): The Detectives

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Pages: 1

Notes: Back cover. This sequence was replaced by an ad in some copies. See sequence 7. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

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Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Feature(s): Arnold, Schwinn & Company

First Line: Brand new from Schwinn...

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Pages: 1

Notes: Back cover. Replaces Sequence 6 in some copies. Illustrated ad for Schwinn Bicycles. Schwinn American model ($49.95) depicted. Selling point is "Every part American Made!" Arnold, Schwinn, & Company, Chicago, Ill.