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Issue: Four Color #866
Publication Date: December 1957
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Issues: #866 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: Walt Disney's Mars and Beyond
Variant: 10¢ Cover Price
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: DellView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 1957
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 7 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Printed in the U.S.A. Authorized edition, based on the Walt Disney television production "Mars and Beyond," first aired December 4, 1957. Designed by Western Printing & Lithographing Co. Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994).
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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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Disclose Reprinted In3
reprinted 3 times as Content Items in other Issues.
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
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Mars and Beyond

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (painted)
Inker(s): ? (painted)
Colorist(s): ? (painted)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Another Science Factual

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
First Line: During the long International Geophysical Year, which extends from July 1, 1957 to December 31, 1958, thousands of scientists from over sixty countries are joined in a vast, coordinated effort to accumulate new knowledge and greater understanding....
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.66
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Science Facts Quiz

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Try it!
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.22
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A Pledge to Parents

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: The Dell trademark is, and always has been, a positive guarantee that the comic magazine bearing it contains only clean and wholesome entertainment.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.12
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Mars and Beyond

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Character(s): Shu; Plato; Anaxagoras; Aristarchus; Ptolemy; Nicolas Copernicus; Galileo; Giovanni Schiaparelli; scientists; space travelers; members of the public; Saturnians; sun dwellers; Sir William Herschel
First Line: As we stand today on the threshold of an exciting new age in which men will travel out into the vastness of space... that greatest riddle of them all looms larger than ever in our speculations... are we alone in the endless universe of space?
Synopsis: Review of the evolution of life and the development of our astronomical knowledge, along with an imaginative account of an expedition to Mars.
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In Content Item: FlagDell Giant #27 published January 1960
as Mars and Beyond [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAlmanacco Topolino #68 published August 1962
as Marte e oltre [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 1
In Content Item: FlagAlmanacco Topolino #69 published September 1962
as Marte e oltre [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 2
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 32
Disclose Notes: "A science feature from Tomorrowland".
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Science Facts

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
First Line: Did you try the quiz on the inside front cover?
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Answers to the Science Facts Quiz.
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The Eighteen-Month Year

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
First Line: What mysterious forces operate in the farthest reaches of our outer atmosphere?
Synopsis: Review of plans for International Geophysical Year (IGY).
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1

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