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Issue: The World Around Us #1
Publication Date: September 1958
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Issues: #1 of 36 Issues
Title: The Illustrated Story of Dogs
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Publisher: FlagGilberton
Brand: A Classics Illustrated PublicationView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Gilberton World-Wide Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/15/1958
Volume:
Pages: 84
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 27 (12 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1958 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: full color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: newsprint interior; glossy cover
Binding: squarebound
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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The Illustrated Story of Dogs

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): The World Around Us
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In Issue: FlagThe World Around Us #W1 published October 2012cover
In Content Item: FlagAlt i bilder #6 published January 1960
as Om hunder [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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The Illustrated Story of Dogs

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): The World Around Us
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Moustache

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Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Heroic Dogs
Character(s): Moustache
Synopsis: True story of Moustache, a black poodle who took part in Napoleon's campaigns
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Balto

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Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Heroic Dogs
Character(s): Balto
Synopsis: True story of Balto, a husky sled dog who trekked six hundred miles through a blizzard to deliver a diptheria vaccine.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Adapted into an animated motion picture, in 1995,
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Bob of Carmel

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Feature(s): Heroic Dogs
Character(s): Bob of Carmel
Synopsis: True story of Bob of Carmel, a courageous German shepherd
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Pages: 7
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How the Dog Began

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Feature(s): The Illustrated Story of Dogs
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[untitled]

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Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Dogs of War
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Chips

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Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Dogs of War
Character(s): Chips
Synopsis: True story of Chips, the son of a husky and a collie-German shepherd cross, who was chosen to lead the first K-9 detachment to cross the Atlantic Ocean during the Allied invasion of Africa during World War II
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Andy

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Feature(s): Dogs of War
Character(s): Andy
Synopsis: True story of Andy, a Doberman Pinscher who served as a scout dog on the Solomon Islands in World War II
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Peefka

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Feature(s): Dogs of War
Character(s): Peefka
Synopsis: True story of Peefka, a German shepherd who led infantry patrols through the Italian mountains in World War II
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Sandy

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Feature(s): Dogs of War
Character(s): Sandy
Synopsis: True story of Sandy, a big, black German shepherd who served as a messenger dog with the marines in the New Britain campaign in the Pacific in World War II.
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Bruce

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Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Dogs of War
Character(s): Bruce; Silver
Synopsis: True story of Bruce and Silver, two German shepherds who saved two American soldiers in a foxhole, on Luzon in the Philippine Islands during World War II
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untitled

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Feature(s): Canine Clippings
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Working Dogs

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Breeds
Character(s): St. Bernard; German Shepherd; Boxer; Alaskan
Malemute; Great Dane; Doberman Pinscher; Collie;
Eskimo
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Sporting Dogs

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Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Breeds
Character(s): Chesapeake Bay Retriever; Golden Retriever; English Setter; Irish Setter; Pointer
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Hounds

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Feature(s): Breeds
Character(s): Saluki; Dachshund; Basset; Beagle; Bloodhound;
Afghan Hound; Irish Wolfhound; Greyhound
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Terriers

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Feature(s): Breeds
Character(s): Wire-haired Fox Terrier; Smooth-haired Fox Terrier; Bedlington; Sealyham; Airedale
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Toy Dogs

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Feature(s): Breeds
Character(s): Pekingese; Poodle; Long-haired Chihuahua; Mexican
Hairless; Pomeranian
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Non-Sporting Dogs

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Character(s): Keeshond; Chow-Chow; Dalmatian
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Dog Diagram

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The Far Frontiers

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Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Dogs of Peace
Character(s): Balto; Jack the Giant Killer
Synopsis: The story of sled dogs used in polar expeditions by explorers like Admiral Richard Byrd and Roald Amundsen
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Dog Paratroopers

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Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Dogs of Peace
Character(s): Lux
Synopsis: Story of Lux (a German shepherd), the first dog paratrooper in history
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Guide to the Blind

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Feature(s): Dogs of Peace
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Their Human Friends

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Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): The Illustrated Story of Dogs
Character(s): Diamond; Sir Isaac Newton; Bounce; Alexander Pope;
Maida; Sir Walter Scott; General George Washington
Synopsis: Stories of Diamond, Sir Isaac Newton's spaniel; Bounce, Alexander Pope's Great Dane; Maida, Sir Walter Scott's hound; etc.
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Their Animal Friends

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Feature(s): The Illustrated Story of Dogs
Character(s): Princess, a German shepherd; Ginger, a fox terrier; Noble, a St. Bernard
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You and Your Dog

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Feature(s): The Illustrated Story of Dogs
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Tips on care (housebreaking, feeding, grooming,
housing, traveling, having a family), training, and tricks
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How Would Your Dog Rate You?

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