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Issue: Four Color #1188

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Publication Date: June 1961

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Issues: #1188 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)

Title: Atlantis, the Lost Continent

Variant: British

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Dell

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Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume:

Pages: 36

ISBN:

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Price: 12.0 pence GBQ 0-1-0

Indicia Frequency: none

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
5 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): ?

Notes: Indicia title is "ATLANTIS, THE LOST CONTINENT, No. 1188." Code number is ATLANTIS O.S. #1188-615. Copyright 1961 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.

Adapted from the 1961 movie "Atlantis, the Lost Continent."

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 "June-August 1961" cover date.

An alternate version of this issue exists with ads and a text overprint on the black bar of the cover. See the index for Four Color #1188 [ad].

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Format

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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Variants2

2 Four Color #1188 [unnamed variant]

Four Color #1188 [British]

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Content Items (5 total)

Atlantis, the Lost Continent

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): ? (photos)

Inker(s): ? (photos)

Colorist(s): ? (photos)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy, historical

Character(s): Demetrios (photo of Anthony Hall); Andes the Giant (photo of Robert Maffei [Big Buck Maffei])

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Atlantis, the Lost Continent

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ? (photos)

Inker(s): ? (photos)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy, historical

Character(s): Demetrios (photo of Anthony Hall); Andes the Giant (photo of Robert Maffei [Big Buck Maffei])

First Line: Demetrios, a Greek fisherman, rescues a beautiful princess and returns her to Atlantis, her faraway island homeland.

Synopsis: Preview of the story.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Inside front cover; black and white. Five photos from the movie with a synopsis, plus a partial cast list.

Atlantis, the Lost Continent

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy, historical

Character(s): Demetrios; Petros; Antilla; King Kronos; Zaren; Sonoy; Xandros; Azor; Andes the Giant

First Line: Throughout the years, as far back as two thousand years ago, scholars have suggested the theory that a continent once existed in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean...

Synopsis: Demetrios, a Greek fisherman, rescues a beautiful princess and returns her to Atlantis, her faraway homeland. When he reaches the island, he is thrown into slavery and must fight a giant in order to regain his freedom. A volcanic eruption sends Atlantis under the sea as Demetrios and the princess escape.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 32

Job Number: ATLANTIS O.S.#1188-615

Notes: Adapted from the 1961 movie "Atlantis the Lost Continent." The ad version of the story is only 28.75 pages long. See the index for Four Color #1188 [ad] for a detailed description of the cuts.

Myth and Mystery

Text Article on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: informational, non-fiction

First Line: Atlantis was located 'beyond the Pillars of Hercules' -- the end of the then-known world.

Synopsis: Theories about Atlantis.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text underneath. This sequence is replaced by an ad in some copies.

The Anatomy of a Volcano

Text Article on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: informational, non-fiction

First Line: Volcanoes are the result of underground heat.

Synopsis: Facts about volcanos.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Back cover. This sequence is replaced by an ad in some copies.