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Issue: The World Around Us #8
Publication Date: April 1959
 
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Title: The Illustrated Story of Flight
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Publisher: FlagGilberton
Indicia Publisher: Gilberton Company Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 84
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
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Content Items: 20 (16 stories, 1 cover)
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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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Stan Campbell (painting, signed)
Stan Campbell (painting, signed)
Stan Campbell (painting, signed)
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Subject Matter
historical
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Miscellaneous
1
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Special Introductory Offer
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Promo, with order coupon, for back numbers of Classics Illustrated Special Issues. Several cover thumbnails.
The Illustrated Story of Flight

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Gerald McCann
Gerald McCann
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Subject Matter
historical
synopsis of the book
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Blizzard Rescue

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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John Tartaglione
John Tartaglione
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Subject Matter
historical
pilot Harold Gillam; miner Carl Witham
Carl Gillam flies his plane in Alaska to save an injured miner.
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Wings of Myth - Wings of Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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H. L. Kihl (signed)
H. L. Kihl (signed)
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Subject Matter
historical
Emperor Shun; Wayland; Daedalus; Icarus; Brother Oliver (an English Monk); John Damien
recounts mankind's legends and early attempts at flight
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Leonardo's Dream of Flight

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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H. L. Kihl ?
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Subject Matter
historical
Leonardo Da Vinci
a summary of Leonardo's designs for flying machines
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First in the Sky

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Graham Ingels
Graham Ingels
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Subject Matter
historical
Joseph Montgolfier; Etienne Montgolfier; King Louis XVI of France; Pilatre De Rozier; Marquis D'Arlandes
the story of French balloon inventors
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From Gliders to Gasoline

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Ernie Hart ?
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Subject Matter
historical
Sir George Cayley; WIlliam Henson; John Stringfellow; Sir Hiram Maxim; Otto Lilienthal
man's experiments with gliders
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The Great Almost

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Gerald McCann
Gerald McCann
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Subject Matter
historical
Dr. Samuel Pierpont Langley; Theodore Roosevelt; President William McKinley; Charles Manly
the quest for powered flight
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The First to Fly

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Ernie Hart ?
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Subject Matter
historical
Wilbur Wright; Orville Wright; Samuel Langley
The Wright Brothers design and build the first airplane.
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8
What Makes an Airplane Fly?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
historical
an introduction to the physics of flight
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3
Pioneer Pilots

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Ernie Hart ?
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Subject Matter
historical
Alberto Santos-Dumont; Louis Blériot; Henri Farman; Charles Willard; Glenn Curtiss
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A New Weapon

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Charles Berger ?
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Subject Matter
historical
Roland Garros
the development of fighter planes in World War I
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3
The Red Knight of Germany

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
George Evans
Reed Crandall
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Subject Matter
historical
Baron Manfred Von Richthofen; Captain Roy Brown; Wilfred May
the story of the Red Baron
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8
Between the Wars

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Ernie Hart ?
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Subject Matter
historical
Lieutenant Commander Richard E. Byrd, USN; Edsel Ford; Floyd Bennett; Charles A. Lindbergh; Frank Hawks; Wiley Post; Harold Gatty; Howard Hughes
aviation development between the wars
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A Deadly Weapon

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Sam Glanzman
Sam Glanzman
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Subject Matter
historical
advancements in airplanes as weapons durring World War II
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7
Brick Wall in the Sky

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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John Tartaglione
John Tartaglione
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Subject Matter
historical
Captain Charles "Chuck" Yeager; Glennis Yeager; Captain Bill Bridgman
Jet fighters and the sound barrier are discussed.
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Flight of the Future

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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? [as Kirner] (signed)
? [as Kirner] (signed)
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Subject Matter
historical
final words on flight
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Typeset
Subject Matter
The wonderful world of fairy tales
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Miscellaneous
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Promo, with order coupon, for back issues of Classics Illustrated Junior. Several cover thumbnails. HRN 557.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Typeset
Subject Matter
Julius Caesar
Read the best in the world's finest juvenile publication
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Promo, with order coupon, for back issues of Classics Illustrated. HRN 149. Cover thumbnail for # 130, Caesar's Conquests.

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