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Issue: Four Color #1176
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Title: Dondi
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)
Volume:
Pages: 36
ISBN:
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Price: 9.0 pence GBQ 0-0-9
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
6 (4 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
Editor(s): Paul R. Lilly (executive vice-president)
Disclose Notes: "Movie Classic" on cover. Adapted from the 1961 movie "Dondi".

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 "January-March 1961" cover date.

The comic has two versions of 36 pages with different inside cover contents. One contains photo stories on the Dondi movie, another with a two page Joe Certa story.
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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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Dondi

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Credits
? (photograph)
? (photograph)
? (photograph)
typeset
Subject Matter
childrens
Dondi (photo of David Kory)
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Miscellaneous
1
Photo and illustration.
Dondi

Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
?
? (photographs)
? (photographs)
typeset
Subject Matter
drama
Dondi
Dondi (photographs of David Kory); Dealey (photographs of David Janssen); Liz (photograph of Patti Page); Sergeant (photograph of Mickey Shaughnessy); Peewee (photograph of Arnold Stang)
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Miscellaneous
1
Inside front cover. Not all actors photographed are identifiable.

Does not appear in all editions of this comic, replaced with a Joe Certa story instead.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
?
?
?
Subject Matter
childrens
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Miscellaneous
2
Inside front and back covers.

Does not appear on all editions of this series. Is often replaced with features on the Dondi movie.
Dondi

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
?
Subject Matter
childrens
Dondi
Dondi
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Miscellaneous
32
Script submitted on July 15, 1960. Script credit from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).
A Dream Comes True

Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
?
? (photographs)
? (photographs)
? (photographs)
typeset
?
Subject Matter
adventure, war
Dondi
David Kory (actor); Irwin Hasen (Dondi creator); Gus Edson (screenwriter)
A brief story about actor David Kory, a Los Angeles native who plays Dondi. Includes two photos, one of Kory and one of Kory's sixth birthday party showing him cutting his birthday cake along with Dondi creator Irwin Hasen and Dondi screenwriter Gus Edson.
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Miscellaneous
1
Inside back cover.

Does not appear in all editions of this comic, replaced with a Joe Certa story instead.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
? (ad copy)
? (photograph); ? (illustration)
? (photograph); ? (illustration)
?
typeset
?
Subject Matter
informational
Daisy Manufacturing Company
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Miscellaneous
1
Back cover.

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