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Issue: The World Around Us #29
Publication Date: January 1961
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Issues: #29 of 36 Issues
Title: Vikings
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagGilberton
Brand: A Classics Illustrated PublicationView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Gilberton World-Wide Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/14/1960
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 20 (13 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Roberta Strauss Feuerlicht
Disclose Notes: Alfred Sundel (associate editor); Helene Lecar (assistant editor); Leonard Cole (art director); Meyer A. Kaplan (production director); European Advisory Board Stig Jensen (Denmark); Kai Brunila (Finald); Jean Chapell (France); Heinz Asmussen (Germany); Gerald Roord (the Netherlands); Martin Nielsen (Norway); Rolf Janson (Sweden); Patricia Schooling (United Kingdom). On-sale date from 1960 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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Vikings

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Synopsis: Viking longship at sea
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In Issue: FlagThe World Around Us #W29 published August 2011cover
In Content Item: FlagWorld Illustrated #518 [unnamed variant] published January 1962
as Story of the Vikings [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Table of contents; indicia; editorial credits
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Roberta Strauss Feuerlicht (editor); Alfred Sundel (associate editor); Helene Lecar (assistant editor); Leonard Cole (art director); Meyer A. Kaplan (production director); European Advisory Board Stig Jensen (Denmark); Kai Brunila (Finland); Jean Chapelle (France); Heinz Asmussen (Germany); Gerald Roord (the Netherlands); Martin Nielsen (Norway); Rolf Janson (Sweden); Patricia Schooling (United Kingdom)
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The Vikings

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Viking raiders
Synopsis: Viking raiders running through surf from longship onto shore
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In Content Item: FlagWorld Illustrated #518 [unnamed variant] published January 1962
as The Vikings [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Full-page splash panel, with introductory text; Artist credit verified by Roger Hill
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The Dragon Ships

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Lindisfarne islanders; Viking raiders
Synopsis: Raiders sack the island of Lindisfarne in 793 C.E., marking the traditional beginning of the Viking age.
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In Content Item: FlagWorld Illustrated #518 [unnamed variant] published January 1962
as The Dragon Ships [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Artist credit verified by Roger Hill
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The Home Shores

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Synopsis: Historical introduction to the Vikings
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In Content Item: FlagWorld Illustrated #518 [unnamed variant] published January 1962
as The Home Shores [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 3
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The Longship

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Synopsis: Development and employment of the Viking longship
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In Content Item: FlagWorld Illustrated #518 [unnamed variant] published January 1962
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Pages: 2
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Rivers of Blood

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Ragnar Lodbrok; Charles the Bald
Synopsis: Vikings raid the coast of the Frankish kingdom, then take advantage of internal warfare to sack cities as far inland as Paris.
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In Content Item: FlagWorld Illustrated #518 [unnamed variant] published January 1962
as Rivers of Blood [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: art credits from Tristan LaPoussiere via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11212), 2017-08-06
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The Viking Gods

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Heimdal; Odin; Thor; Loki
Synopsis: Introduction to the major Viking gods, and beliefs about the afterlife and the end of the world
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In Content Item: FlagWorld Illustrated #518 [unnamed variant] published January 1962
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Pages: 4
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The Uneasy Throne

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Alfred the Great; Gudrum of Denmark; Ethelred the Unready; Sven Forked Beard; King Canute
Synopsis: Vikings invade and partly conquer England. Their fortunes wax and wane, but they are eventually absorbed into the local population.
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In Content Item: FlagWorld Illustrated #518 [unnamed variant] published January 1962
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Pages: 6
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The Colonists

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Naddod; Ingolfur Arnarson; Ulfjot; Rurik; Rollo; Charles the Simple; Gunbjorn; Eric the Red
Synopsis: Norwegian and Danish Vikings battle for control of Ireland. There is an illustration and map showing the Faeroes, Hebrides, Shetlands, and Orkneys, with text explaining their occupations by the Vikings. Vikings discover and colonize Iceland. They create the Althing, "one of the world's oldest governing bodies." Slavs invite the Viking leader Rurik to rule over them. Rollo and his Vikings take over Normandy. French king Charles the Simple co-opts them into his realm. Vikings establish a tenuous colony on Greenland.
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In Content Item: FlagWorld Illustrated #518 [unnamed variant] published January 1962
as The Colonists [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Glanzman's distinctive style may be identified with confidence.
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The Strongest of Vikings

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Boleslav; Palna Toki; Sigvald; Sven Forked Beard; Haakon the Earl
Synopsis: Palna Tolki establishes a company under his strict regime, and the Jomsvikings become known as the strongest of their kind. But they deteriorate under his lenient successor Sigvald. Defeated in battle, they nevertheless face execution unflinchingly.
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In Content Item: FlagWorld Illustrated #518 [unnamed variant] published January 1962
as The Strongest of Vikings [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: "Their story is told in a saga set down in manuscript form in the twelfth century."

Art credits from Tristan LaPoussiere via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11213), 2017-08-06.
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The Far Shores

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Bjarne Herjulfson; Leif Ericsson; Thorvald Ericsson; Thorfinn Karlsefni; Gudrid
Synopsis: Vikings discover North America, but repeated colonization attempts prove abortive.
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In Content Item: FlagWorld Illustrated #518 [unnamed variant] published January 1962
as The Far Shores [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Story taken from the Heimskringla of Snorre Sturlason

art credits from Tristan LaPoussiere via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11214), 2017-08-06
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End of an Age

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: non-fiction
Synopsis: With changes in Scandinavia, and inability to prevail in land battles, the Viking Age dies out about 1100 C.E.
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In Content Item: FlagWorld Illustrated #518 [unnamed variant] published January 1962
as End of an Age [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Artist credit verified by Roger Hill
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Travels of the Vikings

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Synopsis: Map showing the routes and locations of Viking travels
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In Content Item: FlagWorld Illustrated #518 [unnamed variant] published January 1962
as Travels of the Vikings [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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The Convicts and the Eagle

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (adaptor)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Character(s): prisoners in Siberia
Synopsis: Prisoners at hard labor in Siberia watch a wounded eagle recover in their compound, then take it beyond the walls and launch it into the air. It flies away without looking back.
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: "Adapted from the book The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky."
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D-Day Part 3: The Decision

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: non-fiction, war
Character(s): Dwight D. Eisenhower; Karl Gerd von Rundstedt; allied soldiers; French underground fighters
Synopsis: Eisenhower takes a risk ordering the Normandy invasion in questionable weather, and the first forces begin their attacks, catching the Germans by surprise.
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Pages: 6
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The Red Planet Part 3: The Martian Canals

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Percival Lowell
Synopsis: Astronomer Percival Lowell insists that he sees canals on Mars, and builds an elaborate speculation about civilization there. Scientists in 1961 agree that Mars "probably cannot support animal life."
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The World of Science: What the Weather Will Be

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: non-fiction
Synopsis: How to make a simple barometer
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Glanzman's distinctive art may be confidently identified.
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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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. 159)
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Thumbnail for cover of #149, Off on a Comet
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[untitled]

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Subscribe now! Today!
Synopsis: Promo, with order coupon,for subscriptions to The World Around Us
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Thumbnails of several covers, most partly hidden

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