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Issue: Classics Illustrated Special Issue #166A
Publication Date: January 1962
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Issues: #166A of 16 Issues (18 Printings)
Title: World War II
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Publisher: FlagGilberton
Brand: Classics IllustratedView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Gilberton Company Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 100
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.35 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 38 (34 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Roberta Struss Feuerlicht (Editorial Director); Helene Lecar (editor)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: 7" w x 10 1/4" h
Paper Stock: glossy cover, newsprint interior
Binding: Squarebound
Publishing Format: Was ongoing
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World War II

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Genres: historical, non-fiction, war
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In Issue: FlagIllustrerte Klassikere Spesialnummer #7 published January 1962
In Content Item: FlagIllustrated Classics Aktuele Editie #7 published January 1974
as De Tweede Wereldoorlog [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagIllustrated Classics Extra Editie #7 published ?
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First Line: Come along to the days of the Civil War
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World War II

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Angelo Torres ?
Inker(s): Angelo Torres ?
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Genres: war
Synopsis: The invasion of Poland and the start of WWII.
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The Fuehrer

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Angelo Torres ?
Inker(s): Angelo Torres ?
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Genres: war
Character(s): Adolf Hitler; Joseph Goebbels; Winston Churchill; Benito Mussolini
Synopsis: Hitler's rise to power.
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War on the High Seas

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Angelo Torres ?
Inker(s): Angelo Torres ?
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Genres: war
Synopsis: Attacks on naval shipping by German U-Boats.
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Il Duce

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Penciller(s): Angelo Torres ?
Inker(s): Angelo Torres ?
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Genres: war
Character(s): Benito Mussolini; Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia
Synopsis: Benito Mussolini's rise to power and Italy's invasion of Ethiopia.
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The Conquest of Western Europe

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Evans
Inker(s): George Evans
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Genres: war
Character(s): Adolf Hitler; French Premier Paul Reynaud; General Charles de Gaulle
Synopsis: Germany invades Northern Europe and France. The Battle of Dunkirk saves over 300,000 soldiers in nine days.
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The Battle of Britain

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Tartaglione ?
Inker(s): John Tartaglione ?
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Genres: war
Character(s): Winston Churchill; Adolf Hitler; President Franklin Roosevelt
Synopsis: Germany wages an air war against Britain.
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Warships and Wolf Packs

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Angelo Torres ?; George Evans ?; Norman Nodel ?
Inker(s): Angelo Torres ?; George Evans ?; Norman Nodel ?
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Genres: war
Synopsis: The history of the battleship Bismarck and the use of packs of U-Boats to sink Allied shipping.
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The Resistance

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Evans
Inker(s): George Evans
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Genres: war
Synopsis: Danish resistance fighters attack a factory making parts for German rockets.
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The Eastern Front

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Norman Nodel
Inker(s): Norman Nodel
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Genres: war
Character(s): Benito Mussolini; Adolf Hitler; Joseph Stalin
Synopsis: Italy invades Greece with Germany helping. Then Germany invades Russia but is stopped on the outskirts of Moscow by the Russian winter.
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The Big Three

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Penciller(s): Angelo Torres ?
Inker(s): Angelo Torres ?
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Genres: war
Character(s): Winston Churchill; Franklin Roosevelt; Joseph Stalin
Synopsis: Short biographies of the three leaders of the Allies.
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War in the Pacific

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Norman Nodel ?
Inker(s): Norman Nodel ?
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Genres: war
Character(s): General Hideki Tojo; President Franklin Roosevelt; Major James Devereux; General Douglas MacArthur; Major General Jonathan M. Wainwright
Synopsis: Japan attacks China. They then attack the United States at Pearl Harbor, bringing the United States into the war. General MacArthur leaves the Philippines, vowing to return, while the soldiers captured there are forced on the Bataan death march.
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The Doolittle Raid

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Penciller(s): George Evans
Inker(s): George Evans ?
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Genres: war
Character(s): Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle
Synopsis: The story of the famous Doolittle raid on the Japanese homeland.
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The Coral Sea and Midway

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Angelo Torres
Inker(s): Angelo Torres
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Genres: war
Synopsis: The battles of the Coral Sea and Midway.
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Guadalcanal

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Evans ?
Inker(s): George Evans ?
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Genres: war
Synopsis: The battle of Guadalcanal.
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Tarawa

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Penciller(s): Angelo Torres ?
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Genres: war
Synopsis: The battle for the island Tarawa.
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War Leaders

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Penciller(s): Angelo Torres ?
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Genres: war
Character(s): General Douglas MacArthur; Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto; Admiral William F. Halsey
Synopsis: Short biographies of the three main commanders in the South Pacific.
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Stalingrad

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Genres: war
Character(s): General Friedrich von Paulus; Adolf Hitler; General Georgi Zhukov
Synopsis: The battle for Stalingrad.
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War Leaders

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Penciller(s): Angelo Torres ?
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Genres: war
Character(s): Sir Alan Brooke; Karl Dönitz; General Georgi Zhukov
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Lidice and Warsaw

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Penciller(s): Norman Nodel ?
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Genres: war
Synopsis: The Nazi atrocities of Lidice and the Warsaw Ghetto.
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The Death Camps

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Norman Nodel ?
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Genres: war
Character(s): Adolf Hitler; Martin Niemöller
Synopsis: The Nazi atrocities of the concentration camps.
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North Africa

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Norman Nodel ?
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Genres: war
Character(s): General Bernard Montgomery; Winston Churchill; General Erwin Rommel; Field Marshall Hermann Goering; Adolph Hitler
Synopsis: The defeat of Germany and Italy in North Africa.
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War Leaders

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Penciller(s): Angelo Torres ?
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Genres: war
Character(s): Field Marshal Harold Alexander; Field Marshal Erwin Rommel; General Mark W. Clark
Synopsis: Short biographies of these three leaders.
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The Italian Campaign

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Norman Nodel ?
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Genres: war
Character(s): Adolf Hitler; Benito Mussolini; King Victor Emmanuel III; Marshal Pietro Badoglio; General Mark Clark
Synopsis: The battle of Sicily and Italy.
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Blockbusters and Buzz Bombs

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Genres: war
Synopsis: Details on the bombing of Germany with block-buster bombs and Germany's use of Buzz-Bombs on England.
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The Normandy Invasion

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Evans ?
Inker(s): George Evans ?
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Genres: war
Character(s): General Dwight Eisenhower
Synopsis: The D-Day invasion.
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The Battle of the Bulge

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Genres: war
Character(s): Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt; General Anthony McAuliffe; Lieutenant-General George Patton
Synopsis: The Battle of the Bulge is detailed.
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Victory in Europe

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Penciller(s): Norman Nodel ?
Inker(s): Norman Nodel ?
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Genres: war
Character(s): Adolf Hitler; General Dwight Eisenhower; Field Marshal Harold Alexander; Benito Mussolini; Admiral Karl Dönitz
Synopsis: The final invasion of Germany, including the taking of the Remagen bridge and the deaths of both Mussolini and Hitler.
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War Leaders

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Angelo Torres ?
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Genres: war
Character(s): General Dwight Eisenhower; Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery; General Omar Bradley
Synopsis: Brief biographies of three war leaders.
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Leyte Gulf

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Genres: war
Character(s): Admiral William Halsey; Read Admiral Jesse Oldendorf
Synopsis: The Allies return to the Philippines in the Battle of Leyte Gulf and destroy most of the remaining Japanese navy.
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The Mainland War

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Genres: war
Synopsis: The Burma Road and other supply routes for the Allies. The Flying Tigers continue their missions against the Japanese.
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War Leaders

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Angelo Torres ?
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Genres: war
Character(s): Admiral Louis Mountbatten; Premier Hideki Tojo; Admiral Chester Nimitz
Synopsis: Short biographies of three war leaders.
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Iwo Jima and Okinawa

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Penciller(s): Angelo Torres ?
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Genres: war
Synopsis: The taking of the islands Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
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Victory in the Pacific

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Penciller(s): Angelo Torres
Inker(s): Angelo Torres
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Genres: war
Character(s): General Douglas MacArthur; Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson; President Harry Truman
Synopsis: Kamikaze pilots are used against the American fleet. Atomic weapons are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and finally bring an end to WWII.
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Crimes Against Humanity

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Genres: war
Character(s): Premier Hideki Tojo; Hermann Goering
Synopsis: The first war crimes trials are held at the end of World War II.
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