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Issue: Four Color #1236

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Publication Date: December 1961

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Issues: #1236 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)

Title: King of Kings

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 (3 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s):

Notes: Indicia title is "KING OF KINGS, No. 1236." No code number. Copyright 1961 by Samuel Bronston Productions, Inc.

"Movie Classic" on cover. Adapted from the 1961 movie "King of Kings."

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 "December 1961-February 1962" cover date.

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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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Variants3

2 Four Color #1236 [unnamed variant]

Four Color #1236 [British]

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Content Items (5 total)

King of Kings

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): ? (photos)

Inker(s): ? (photos)

Colorist(s): ? (photos)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: historical, religious

Character(s): Jesus Christ (photo of Jeffrey Hunter)

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Cover is movie poster and two photos from the movie.

King of Kings

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: historical, religious

Character(s): Jesus Christ (photo of Jeffrey Hunter); Joseph (photo of Gerard Tichy); Mary (photo of by Siobhan McKenna); John the Baptist (photo of Robert Ryan)

Synopsis: Preview of the story.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Inside front cover; black and white. Movie poster illustration and partial cast list and five photos from the movie.

King of Kings

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Philip Yordan (screenplay); ? (comic adaptation)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: historical, religious

Character(s): Jesus Christ; Mary; Joseph; King Herod; Lucius; John the Baptist; Salome; Barrabas; Pontius Pilate; Andrew; John; Peter; Judas; Mary Magdalene

Synopsis: The story of the life of Jesus Christ, intertwined with that of Barrabas, a Judean rebel against Rome.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 32

Notes: Adapted from the 1961 M-G-M movie "King of Kings."

The Resurrection of Lazarus

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: historical, religious

Character(s): Jesus Christ; Lazarus

Synopsis: The Biblical story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Inside back cover; black and white.

John the Baptist

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ? (photos)

Inker(s): ? (photos)

Colorist(s): ? (background color)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: historical, religious

Character(s): John the Baptist (photo of Robert Ryan); Salome (photo of Brigid Bazlen); King Herod (photo of Frank Thring)

Synopsis: The Biblical story of Salome demanding the head of John the Baptist.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Back cover. Two black and white photos and typeset text. Background color only.