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Issue: Classics Illustrated #5 - HRN 131
Publication Date: March 1956
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Issues: #5 - HRN 131 of 323 Issues (607 Printings)
Title: Moby Dick
Variant: 1st Painted Cover
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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: none
Content Items: 6 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Reprints in HRN 138: May 1957; HRN 148: January 1959; HRN 158: Fall 1960; HRN 167: Spring-Summer 1963, June 1964, July 1965; March 1966; HRN 166: September 1967, Winter 1969 (25ยข-new painted, stiff cover); HRN 169: Winter 1971.
Data from Bill Jones "Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History", second edition.
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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
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Moby Dick

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Genres: adventure
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Pages: 1
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Gilberton Co.
Synopsis: House ad for binders for Classics Illustrated comics.
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Disclose Notes: inside front cover
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Moby Dick

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Ishmael; Captain Ahab; Moby Dick
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Pages: 47
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Herman Melville

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Genres: biography
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Disclose Notes: after last story page
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Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Gilberton Co.
Character(s): The Phantom; Barney Google; Blondie; Popeye; Flash Gordon; Olive Oyl; Jiggs and Maggie; Captain and Professor from Katzenjammer Kids; Dagwood; Sherlock Holmes
Synopsis: House ad: free stick-on tattoos with a 10-issue subscription to Classics Illustrated.
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Disclose Notes: inside back cover
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"Read the best in the world's finest juvenile publication"

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Feature(s): Gilberton Co.
Character(s): Julius Caesar
Synopsis: House ad for Classics Illustrated back issues, HRN 131
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Disclose Notes: Order coupon; color thumbnail of cover for #130, "Caesar's Conquests"; on back cover

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