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Issue: Four Color #1139
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Title: Spartacus
Is Variant Variant: British
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Publisher: FlagDell
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Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
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Pages: 36
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Price: 9.0 pence GBQ 0-0-9
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
5 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue
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Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "SPARTACUS, No. 1139." Code number is SPARTACUS O.S. #1139-6011. Copyright 1960 by Bryna Productions.

"Movie Classic" on cover. Based on the 1960 movie "Spartacus."

No month is given on the cover or in the indicia. Based on the copyright dates of this issue and others in the series released around the same time, one can determine that this issue was published with other Four Color issues bearing a "November-January" cover date.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Spartacus

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
historical
Spartacus (photo of Kirk Douglas)
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Miscellaneous
1
Spartacus

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
?
? (photos)
? (photos)
typeset
Subject Matter
historical
Spartacus (photo of Kirk Douglas)
Preview of the story.
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Miscellaneous
1
Inside front cover; black and white. Five photos from the movie, plus a partial cast list.
Spartacus

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Dalton Trumbo (screenplay)
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Subject Matter
historical
Spartacus; Marcellus; Batiatus; Varinia; Gracchus; Antonius; Crassus
Spartacus, a gladiator, leads a slave revolt against the Roman Empire.
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Miscellaneous
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Adapted from the 1960 Universal-International movie "Spartacus." Script submitted on August 23, 1959.
Military Leaders of the Later Roman Republic

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
informational, non-fiction
Gauis Marius; Lucius Cornelius Sulla; Marcus Licinius Crassus
Short biographies of three Roman leaders.
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Miscellaneous
1
Spartacus

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
?
? (photos)
? (photos)
? (photos)
typeset
Subject Matter
Spartacus (photo of Kirk Douglas)
Preview of the story.
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Miscellaneous
1
Back cover. Two black and white photos with monochrome overlays.

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