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Issue: Four Color #1213
Publication Date: February 1962
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Issues: #1213 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: Jules Verne's Mysterious Island
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: Dell [stamp]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/21/1961
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 5 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "Jules Verne's MYSTERIOUS ISLAND, No. 1213." Code number is M. ISLAND #1213-621.
Copyright 1961 by Columbia Pictures Corporation.

Adapted from the 1961 movie "Mysterious Island", with "Movie Classic" on cover.

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 "February-April 1962" cover date.

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

Dell also published "Jules Verne's Mysterious Isle" #1 in 1963 as a more faithful adaptation of the book (so no giant animals).
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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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Mysterious Island

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Colorist(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, science fiction
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Pages: 1
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Mysterious Island

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photos)
Inker(s): ? (photos)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, science fiction
Character(s): Neb Nugent (photo of Dan Jackson)
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 typeset text. Most characters are not identifiable in the photos, which are mainly long shots.
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Mysterious Island

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): John Prebble; Daniel B. Ullman; Crane Wilbur (screenplay); ? (comic adaptation)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, science fiction
Character(s): Cyrus Harding; Gideon Spilitt; Neb Nugent; Captain Nemo
Synopsis: During the Civil War, three Union soldiers escape from a Confederate prison in a hot air balloon. They land on a volcanic island in the Pacific where they struggle against gigantic creatures while trying to devise a plan of escape.
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Pages: 32
Disclose Notes: Adapted from the 1961 movie "Mysterious Island," based on the novel by Jules Verne.

Herb Trimpe ink credit per Who's Who's of American Comic Books 1928-1999 website. Trimpe elaborated in an interview published in The Incredible Herb Trimpe (2015), stating he only inked backgrounds, noting that Gill inked the main figures. Alberto Becattini previously credited Trimpe with solo inks.
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Balloons at War

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Synopsis: The use of hot air balloons in war.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black and white.

Herb Trimpe ink credit per Who's Who's of American Comic Books 1928-1999 website. Trimpe elaborated in an interview published in The Incredible Herb Trimpe (2015), stating he only inked backgrounds, noting that Gill inked the main figures. Alberto Becattini previously credited Trimpe with solo inks.
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Mysterious Island

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Colorist(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, science fiction
Synopsis: Preview of the story.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Three photos from the movie in monochrome and black and white plus typeset text.

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