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Issue: M-G-M's Lassie #1
Publication Date: July 1950
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Issues: #1 of 36 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: A Dell ComicView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/16/1950
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 5 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title for this issue is "Lassie."

What we at GCD call the publication date (this issue's absent cover date, which would have been what newsstand retailers called the pull date) is known to be July-December (1950 is in the indicia). It is known by applying data to the 1951-1952 Dell Lassie cover date formula. The data are the on sale dates of issues #1 and #2, per Copyright Entries' reports of what they call these issues' dates of publication (the which we at GCD correctly call the on sale dates). The relevant cover date formula derives from: the cover dates of issues #3,4,5,6,7,8; and the on sale dates of issues #3,4,5,6,7,8,9. Their relationship follows the pattern {[X+1] through [Y]} = Z, where X is the first full month the issue was on sale, Y is the first full month the next issue was on sale, and Z is the cover date.

The previous indexer inferred the publication date from the code number. The code number is Lassie O.S. #282-506, which would indicate that this book was planned as a one-shot to be Four Color #282 and that its first full month on sale would be 1950 June. There is also an excess of blank space in the indicia between the title "LASSIE" and "Published by Dell Publishing Co." into which the "No. 1" is dropped. That extra space, one presumes, was intended to accomodate the larger Four Color issue number.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photograph); Mo Gollub (drawings)
Inker(s): ? (photograph); Mo Gollub (drawings)
Colorist(s): ? (photograph); ? (drawings)
Subject Matter
Genres: nature
Feature(s): Lassie
Character(s): Lassie (photograph of Pal)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The bottom portion of the cover has three scenes painted by Morris Gollub who also did the interior illustrations for this issue.
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Subject Matter
Genres: nature
Feature(s): Lassie
Character(s): Lassie
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover
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Lassie Finds a Friend

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gaylord Du Bois
Penciller(s): Mo Gollub
Inker(s): Mo Gollub
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: nature
Feature(s): Lassie
Character(s): Lassie; Rocky Langford; Mr. Pettibone; Matilda Benway; Jeb Ordway; Cap'n Caleb; Ben; Uncle Norrie; Commando; Mr. Lawrence; Gerry Lawrence; Mr. Warner
First Line: Deep in the southland, a fast train thunders through scrub-oak barrens.
Synopsis: Misadventure throws Lassie from a fast train. Pettibone's abuse prompts Rocky to flee the Orphans' Home. He meets Lassie and, later, Ben. Wealthy coffee planter Mr. Lawrence offers to advance Rocky the cost of repairing the Sea Gull and to break Rocky into a job on his plantation.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 48
Job Number: LASSIE O.S. 282-506
Disclose Notes: Writer credit suggested by Jerry Bails's Who's Who of American Comic Books 1928-1999. The Who's Who also notes that Mo Gollub was penciler and inker of the Lassie feature in 1950, hence the art ID.

Gaylord Du Bois script credit confirmed as per page 38, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books, Sorted by Title, compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott.
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Subject Matter
Genres: nature
Feature(s): Lassie
Character(s): Lassie
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Colorist(s): ? (photograph)
Subject Matter
Genres: nature
Feature(s): Lassie
Character(s): Lassie
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover

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