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Issue: The World Around Us #30
Publication Date: February 1961
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Issues: #30 of 36 Issues
Title: Undersea Adventures
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: 01/03/1961
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 17 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Alfred Sundel (Associate Editor); Helene Lecar (Assistant Editor); Jane Elizabeth Churchman (Copy 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). On-sale date from 1961 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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): scuba divers; shark
Synopsis: Scuba divers, armed with knife and spear gun, confronting large shark
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In Content Item: FlagWorld Illustrated #519 [unnamed variant] published January 1962
as Story of Undersea Adventures [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Painted cover signed at center of bottom border
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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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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Undersea Adventures

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): two scientists
Synopsis: Two scientists peering at the underwater world through the window of a bathysphere; introductory text for the issue
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In Content Item: FlagWorld Illustrated #519 [unnamed variant] published January 1962
as Undersea Adventures [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Frogmen

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction, war
Character(s): Men of the Italian Tenth Light Flotilla
Synopsis: Riding undersea "pig" piloted torpedoes, Italian frogmen attack British warships in Alexandria and Gibraltar.
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In Content Item: FlagWorld Illustrated #519 [unnamed variant] published January 1962
as The Frogmen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Torres credit per Dan Malan from his book The Complete Guide to Classics Illustrated.
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Mines Below

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction, war
Character(s): Lieutenant Lionel Crabb; Royal Navy scuba divers
Synopsis: Lionel Crabb joins British scuba divers protecting shipping and fighting Italian frogmen in Gibraltar.
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In Content Item: FlagWorld Illustrated #519 [unnamed variant] published January 1962
as Mines Below [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Torres credit per Dan Malan from his book The Complete Guide to Classics Illustrated.
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Underwater Conquest

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): sponge divers; pearl divers; Spartan swimmers; Alexander the Great; David Bushnell; Robert Fulton
Synopsis: History of underwater exploration, from ancient Greek sponge divers through early underwater devices, experiments by Bushnell and Fulton, and the first bathysphere.
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In Content Item: FlagWorld Illustrated #519 [unnamed variant] published January 1962
as Underwater Conquest [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Sam Glanzman's distinctive style may be confidently identified.
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Sea Monsters -- False and True

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Synopsis: Five mythical sea creature as imagined in the sixteenth century, and five unusual real sea creatures.
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In Content Item: FlagWorld Illustrated #519 [unnamed variant] published January 1962
as Sea Monsters -- False and True [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Artist credit verified by Roger Hill
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Sunken Treasure

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Captain Thomas Dickinson, R.N.; Brazilian divers; Kefti mariners; Turkish sponge diver
Synopsis: Captain Dickinson uses a diving bell to salvage treasure lost in a shipwreck; modern divers use scuba gear; divers investigate Mayan wells, and a Kefti shipwreck in the Mediterranean
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In Content Item: FlagWorld Illustrated #519 [unnamed variant] published January 1962
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Morales credit per Dan Malan from his book The Complete Guide to Classics Illustrated.
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Skin Diving

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): game warden; scientist; skin divers; geologists
Synopsis: Explanations of skin diving, practical applications in wildlife management, oil prospecting, police work, and scientific studies are given.
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In Content Item: FlagWorld Illustrated #519 [unnamed variant] published January 1962
as Skin Diving [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Tallarico credit per Dan Malan from his book The Complete Guide to Classics Illustrated.
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In Magellan's Wake

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Captain Edward L. Beach; crew of the US nuclear submarine Triton
Synopsis: Beach and his crew conduct the Triton on the world's first underwater circumnavigation of the globe.
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In Content Item: FlagWorld Illustrated #519 [unnamed variant] published January 1962
as In Magellan's Wake [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Sam Glanzman's style is distinctive, and may be identified with confidence.
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Seven Miles Down

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Jacques Piccard; Lieutenant Don Walsh
Synopsis: Piccard and Walsh take the first bathyscaph (Trieste) to a record depth -- 35,800 feet in the Marianas Trench.
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In Content Item: FlagWorld Illustrated #519 [unnamed variant] published January 1962
as Seven Miles Down [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Campbell credit per Dan Malan from his book The Complete Guide to Classics Illustrated.
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The Duel

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (adaptation)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Character(s): Viscount Gontram Joseph de Signoles; George Lamil; the Colonel
Synopsis: After provoking a duel, the Viscount kills himself rather than actually face it.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustrations by Kirby. The character illustrated on page 51 strongly resembles Mastermind as he first appeared in The X-Men.
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D-Day Part 4: Night Drop

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction, war
Character(s): U.S. airborne troopers; British airborne troopers; German soldiers
Synopsis: U.S. and U.K. paratroopers and glider troopers descend on Normandy and attack the Germans, hours before the D-Day seaborne assault.
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Pages: 6
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The Red Planet Part 4: A Trip to Mars

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Astronauts
Synopsis: Speculation in the means of the first flight to Mars, and what astronauts might find there.
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Last installment of series.
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The World of Science: Blue Skies

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Synopsis: Comic-story activity on why the sky is blue, and how to separate blue light from white light.
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Pages: 1
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
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). Thumbnail of cover to #149, Off on a Comet.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Subscribe now! Today!
Synopsis: Promo with order form for subscriptions to The World Around Us. Several thumbnails of covers, some partially hidden.
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Pages: 1

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