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Issue: The World Around Us #12
Publication Date: August 1959
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Issues: #12 of 36 Issues
Title: The Illustrated Story of the Coast Guard
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Publisher: FlagGilberton
Brand: A Classics Illustrated PublicationView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Gilberton World-Wide Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/10/1959
Volume: none
Pages: 84
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
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Content Items: 19 (10 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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The Illustrated Story of the Coast Guard

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Genres: military, non-fiction
Character(s): Coast Guardsmen; distressed mariners
Synopsis: 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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Character(s): Pinocchio; Gepetto; Thumbelina; The Three Bears; The Steadfast Tin Soldier
Synopsis: Promo, with order form, for back issues of Classics Illustrated Junior (H.R.N. 561).
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The Illustrated Story of the Coast Guard

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Genres: military, non-fiction
Synopsis: Coast Guard vessel overtaking criminal vessel; introductory text.
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Four Last Words

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Genres: non-fiction, war
Character(s): Douglas A. Munro; US Marines
Synopsis: 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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Genres: military, non-fiction
Character(s): Alexander Hamilton; Alex A. Fraser; Coast Guard personnel
Synopsis: 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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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Dick Turpin; Tom King
Synopsis: 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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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Black Maria; Alexander Hamilton; smugglers
Synopsis: 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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Cutters at War

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Genres: non-fiction, war
Character(s): John Adams; revenue cutter men; Coast Guardsmen
Synopsis: 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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The Mystery of Stonehenge

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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Synopsis: Description of Stonehenge, and speculation concerning its construction.
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The Matchbox Fleet

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Genres: non-fiction, war
Character(s): R V McPhail
Synopsis: 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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Genres: military, non-fiction
Character(s): Coast Guard boots; Coast Guard instructors
Synopsis: New Coast Guard enlistees go through 13 weeks of boot camp.
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Sea Patrol

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Genres: military, non-fiction
Synopsis: Coast Guard personnel serve in multitudinous roles world-wide.
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The Fatal Fever

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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Walter Reed; John Kissinger
Synopsis: 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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Genres: military, non-fiction
Character(s): P.B. Cronk; seaplane pilot
Synopsis: 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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First Around the World

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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Ferdinand Magellan
Synopsis: 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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Genres: non-fiction, war
Character(s): J.A. Hirshfield
Synopsis: 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

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Genres: military, non-fiction
Character(s): Francis Tuttle; Coast Guard personnel; Inuit guide
Synopsis: 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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Character(s): Julius Caesar
First Line: Read the best in the world's finest juvenile publication
Synopsis: Promo, with order coupon, for back issues of Classics Illustrated (H.R.N. 150).
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Synopsis: Promo, with order form, for subscriptions to The World Around Us.
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