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Issue: Four Color #1216
Publication Date: September 1961
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Issues: #1216 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: Whirlybirds
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: Dell [stamp]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/22/1961
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 8 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "WHIRLYBIRDS, No. 1216." Code number is WHIRLYBIRDS #1216-618. Copyright 1961 by CBS Films, Inc. Based on the 1957-1960 "Whirlybirds" TV series.
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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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The Flaming Hills

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Colorist(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Whirlybirds
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Flaming Hills / The Oasis

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Whirlybirds
Character(s): Chuck Martin (photo of Kenneth Tobey); P.T. Moore (photo of Craig Hill)
Synopsis: Previews of two stories in the issue.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black and white. Photo and two-panel previews of two stories in the issue.
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The Flaming Hills

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Whirlybirds
Character(s): Chuck Martin; P.T. Moore; Helen Carter
Synopsis: While hunting an escaped convict, the Whirlybirds have to contend with a forest fire that the convict has started.
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Pages: 15
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The Conquering Fury

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Synopsis: How a forest fire might start, ways it can spread, what fire-fighters do to stop it, and how it might be extinguished by fire-fighters or by nature.
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Pages: 2
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The Oasis

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Whirlybirds
Character(s): Chuck Martin; P.T. Moore
Synopsis: The Whirlybirds take a prospector to an isolated oasis in the desert mountains, only to find that he has no intention of letting them leave.
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Pages: 15
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The Many-Purposed Helicopter

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Whirlybirds
Synopsis: Facts about commercial uses of helicopters.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black and white. The Whirlybirds logo is on the sequence, but no characters appear.
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The Helicopter in War

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Synopsis: Five bordered panels with educational captions.
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204 Revolutionary Soldiers

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover; Illustrated ad for 204 plastic Revolutionary War toy soldiers from Carle Place, Long Island, N.Y.

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