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Issue: The World Around Us #12
Publication Date: August 1959
 
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Title: The Illustrated Story of the Coast Guard
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagGilberton
On Sale Date: 1959
Volume: none
Pages: 84
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 19 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Roberta Strauss (Editor); Meyer A. Kaplan (executive editor); Sam Birnkrant (associate editor); Leonard Cole (art director)
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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 the Coast Guard

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Coast Guardsmen; distressed mariners
Coast Guardsmen in pulling boat haul shipwrecked sailors from the polar sea. Iceberg and Coast Guard vessel in background.
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The Wonderful World of Fairy Tales

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Pinocchio; Gepetto; Thumbelina; The Three Bears; The Steadfast Tin Soldier
Promo, with order form, for back issues of Classics Illustrated Junior (H.R.N. 561).
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House ad for Classics Illustrated Junior; thumbnails of several covers, most partly hidden.
The Illustrated Story of the Coast Guard

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Gerald McCann
Gerald McCann
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Subject Matter
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Coast Guard vessel overtaking criminal vessel; introductory text.
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Full-page splash panel
Four Last Words

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Everett Raymond Kinstler ?
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Subject Matter
non-fiction, war
Douglas A. Munro; US Marines
Signalman First Class Munro uses landing craft to set Marines ashore at Guadalcanal. When they become trapped Munro leads 10 craft back, shielding the Marines from shore fire at they re-board. Munro is killed, earning the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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Revenues and Rescues

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Ernie Hart ?
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Alexander Hamilton; Alex A. Fraser; Coast Guard personnel
Alexander Hamilton establishes the Revenue Marine Service to combat smuggling. Over time new duties are added, and a Government Lifesaving Service. In 1915 the two bodies merge to form the Coast Guard. Its mission continues to be diverse and dangerous.
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The Gallant Mare

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Dick Turpin; Tom King
Highwayman Dick Turpin escapes London, pushing his horse Black Bess through four days of riding. When Black Bess expires, he waits by her side to be taken and executed.
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Send for Black Maria

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Ernie Hart ?
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Black Maria; Alexander Hamilton; smugglers
Teamster Black Maria beats off smugglers who try to steal her load of cannon intended for a revenue cutter. She later runs a boarding house, keeping it well-mannered with her fists. She assists the police, giving rise to the slang term for a police wagon.
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Cartoon-style artwork
Cutters at War

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Ann Brewster ?
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John Adams; revenue cutter men; Coast Guardsmen
Revenue service (later Coast Guard) men and vessels defend the country at sea and along the shore from the Quasi-War of 1798 through World War II, in which the Coast Guard operates the world's fifth biggest navy.
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11
The Mystery of Stonehenge

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Description of Stonehenge, and speculaton concerning its construction.
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The Matchbox Fleet

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Sam Glanzman
Sam Glanzman
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Subject Matter
non-fiction, war
R V McPhail
Coast Guard personnel operate a fleet of 83-foot wooden rescue boats during the Normandy invasion, at great risk to themselves, saving 1,438 men.
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Training for Duty

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Ann Brewster (signed)
Ann Brewster (signed)
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Coast Guard boots; Coast Guard instructors
New Coast Guard enlistees go through 13 weeks of boot camp.
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Sea Patrol

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Graham Ingels
Graham Ingels
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Coast Guard personnel serve in multitudinous roles world-wide.
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The Fatal Fever

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Walter Reed; John Kissinger
John Kissinger volunteers to be infected with yellow fever in order to test countermeasures. He survives but is debilitated; even so he fights to make his way in the world, and lives another 46 years.
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Mayday!

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John Tartaglione
John Tartaglione
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P.B. Cronk; seaplane pilot
A seaplane airliner is forced to ditch near a Coast Guard weather ship. In a 24-hour struggle, Coast Guard personnel rescue all 69 passengers and crew.
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12
First Around the World

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Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan and many others die along the way, but 18 of his crew complete the first circumnavigation of the globe in 1522.
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Six Subs in Twelve Hours

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Subject Matter
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J.A. Hirshfield
The men of Coast Guard cutter "Campbell," on World War II convoy duty in the North Atlantic, engage six German u-boats in twelve hours.
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The Long March

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Sam Glanzman
Sam Glanzman
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Subject Matter
non-fiction
Francis Tuttle; Coast Guard personnel; Inuit guide
Officers of the Coast Guard cutter "Bear," unable to break through pack ice, walk 2000 miles to Point Barrow, using dogs and herding reindeer. Their arrival relieves the desperate inhabitants and marooned seamen.
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Julius Caesar
Read the best in the world's finest juvenile publication
Promo, with order coupon, for back issues of Classics Illustrated (H.R.N. 150).
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Thumbnail of cover to #130, Caesar's Conquests.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Promo, with order form, for subscriptions to The World Around Us.
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House ad for The World Around Us series; thumbnails of several covers, most partly hidden.

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