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Issue: The World Around Us #8
Publication Date: April 1959
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Issues: #8 of 36 Issues
Title: The Illustrated Story of Flight
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Publisher: FlagGilberton
Brand: A Classics Illustrated PublicationView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Gilberton Company Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/09/1959
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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Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1959 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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Genres: historical
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First Line: Special Introductory Offer
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Disclose Notes: Promo, with order coupon, for back numbers of Classics Illustrated Special Issues. Several cover thumbnails.
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The Illustrated Story of Flight

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Genres: historical
Synopsis: synopsis of the book
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Blizzard Rescue

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Genres: historical
Character(s): pilot Harold Gillam; miner Carl Witham
Synopsis: Carl Gillam flies his plane in Alaska to save an injured miner.
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Wings of Myth - Wings of Man

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Genres: historical
Character(s): Emperor Shun; Wayland; Daedalus; Icarus; Brother Oliver (an English Monk); John Damien
Synopsis: recounts mankind's legends and early attempts at flight
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Leonardo's Dream of Flight

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Genres: historical
Character(s): Leonardo Da Vinci
Synopsis: a summary of Leonardo's designs for flying machines
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First in the Sky

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Character(s): Joseph Montgolfier; Etienne Montgolfier; King Louis XVI of France; Pilatre De Rozier; Marquis D'Arlandes
Synopsis: the story of French balloon inventors
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From Gliders to Gasoline

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Genres: historical
Character(s): Sir George Cayley; William Henson; John Stringfellow; Sir Hiram Maxim; Otto Lilienthal
Synopsis: man's experiments with gliders
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The Great Almost

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Genres: historical
Character(s): Dr. Samuel Pierpont Langley; Theodore Roosevelt; President William McKinley; Charles Manly
Synopsis: the quest for powered flight
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The First to Fly

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Genres: historical
Character(s): Wilbur Wright; Orville Wright; Samuel Langley
Synopsis: The Wright Brothers design and build the first airplane.
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What Makes an Airplane Fly?

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Synopsis: an introduction to the physics of flight
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Pioneer Pilots

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Character(s): Alberto Santos-Dumont; Louis Blériot; Henri Farman; Charles Willard; Glenn Curtiss
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A New Weapon

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Genres: historical
Character(s): Roland Garros
Synopsis: the development of fighter planes in World War I
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The Red Knight of Germany

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Genres: biography, historical
Character(s): Baron Manfred Von Richthofen; Captain Roy Brown; Wilfred May
Synopsis: the story of the Red Baron
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Between the Wars

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Genres: historical
Character(s): Lieutenant Commander Richard E. Byrd, USN; Edsel Ford; Floyd Bennett; Charles A. Lindbergh; Frank Hawks; Wiley Post; Harold Gatty; Howard Hughes
Synopsis: aviation development between the wars
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A Deadly Weapon

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Synopsis: advancements in airplanes as weapons during World War II
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Brick Wall in the Sky

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Character(s): Captain Charles "Chuck" Yeager; Glennis Yeager; Captain Bill Bridgman
Synopsis: Jet fighters and the sound barrier are discussed.
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Flight of the Future

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Genres: historical
Synopsis: final words on flight
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First Line: The wonderful world of fairy tales
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Disclose Notes: Promo, with order coupon, for back issues of Classics Illustrated Junior. Several cover thumbnails. HRN 557.
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Character(s): Julius Caesar
First Line: Read the best in the world's finest juvenile publication
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Disclose Notes: Promo, with order coupon, for back issues of Classics Illustrated. HRN 149. Cover thumbnail for # 130, Caesar's Conquests.

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