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Issue: Classics Illustrated #133 - O
Publication Date: July 1956
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Issues: #133 - O of 306 Issues (574 Printings)
Title: The Time Machine
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagGilberton
Brand: Classics IllustratedView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Gilberton Company Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Meyer A. Kaplan (managing editor); William Kanter (editor); Alex Blum (art director)
Disclose Notes: An HRN 167 edition exists, with differing promos on the inside covers.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: cover stock varies from regular glossy to stiff glossy; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Disclose Reprinted In7
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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The Time Machine

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): H. G. Wells
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagClassiques Illustrés #17 published December 1957
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagClassics Illustrated #11 published ?
as The Time Machine [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Coming Next

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Found on the inside front cover.

Publisher's promotional advertisement for three of Gilberton Company's comic titles (with covers): The Illustrtaed Story of the Marines, The Illustrated Story of Horses, and the Illustrated Story of Space, PLUS a coupon for ordering the new issue of "The World Around Us" is included.
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Alleyne Edricson

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Who Am I?
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Found on the inside front cover.

Five different clues are given to the reader to decipher in order to determine the identity of a famous literary character (Alleyne Edricson).

The indicia is also found on this page, and lists Meyer A. Kaplan as Managing Editor, and is dated July 1956.
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The Time Machine

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): H. G. Wells; Wells' unnamed friends; Eloi (people from over 800,000 years in the future); Weena (girl, a Eloi); The Morlocks (villains)
Synopsis: Wells is late to dinner with his friends, but shows up, clothes tattered, and he tells them the story of his time machine, travel into the very distant future, falling in love, battling the Morlocks, and his arrival back into the present. His only proof to them were flowers given to him as a present from Weena.
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In Content Item: FlagClassiques Illustrés #17 published December 1957
as La Machine à explorer le temps [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagClassics Illustrated #11 published ?
as The Time Machine [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 44
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H. G. Wells

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Character(s): H. G. Wells; Amy Catherine Robbins (Well's second wife)
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In Content Item: FlagClassics Illustrated #11 published ?
as H. G. Wells [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Spot illustrated biography of Herbert George Wells, born September 21, 1866, died August 13, 1946.
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Part 7: The Elizabethan Age

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical
Feature(s): The Story of Great Britain
Character(s): Elizabeth I; Elizabeth I's un-named suitor (death); John (settler)
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In Content Item: FlagClassics Illustrated #11 published ?
as Part 7: The Elizabethan Age [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Story of of Great Britain's Elizabeth I (daughter of Henry VIII), from age 3 through adulthood, spotlighting the death of her mother and suitor, imprisonment, explorations and settlements, prosperity and advancements in the arts, as well as trade and exploration.

Part 8 is titled "The Puritan Revolution", appearing in the next issue.
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Charles Darwin

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Character(s): Charles Darwin
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In Content Item: FlagClassics Illustrated #11 published ?
as Charles Darwin [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Biography, with spot illustration, of the English scientist, Charles Darwin, born in 1809 and who died April 19, 1882. Much of the article discusses his theory of evolution.
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Classics Illustrated
First Line: Free! Free! Free! 40 of the world's greatest comic strip characters in tattoos
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Found on the insde back cover.

Advertisement from Gilberton Company, Inc. for an attractive, permanent binder to house and preserve copies of Classics Illustrated. Cost $1 each and each holds 12 issues. Coupon provided for ordering.
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (painted cover)
Inker(s): ? (painted cover)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Classics Illustrated
First Line: Read the best in the world's finest juvenile publication
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Found on the back cover.

Current listing of the currently available issues of Classics Illustrated, displaying the cover to #149, plus a coupon readers could use to order any of the available issues of the 152 published to date.

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