(August 1956)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand:
- Dell
- Editing:
- Alice Nielson Cobb (managing editor); Chase Craig (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
- Format:
- Color; standard Golden Age and later Silver Age formats; saddle-stitched; newsprint; was an On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "Walt Disney's MAN IN SPACE, No. 716." Code number is M.I.S. O.S. #716-568. Copyright 1956 by Walt Disney Productions. Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994).
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
- from Dell Giant (Dell, 1959 series) #27 (January 1960)
- in Dell Giant (Dell, 1959 series) #27 (January 1960)
Man in Space
Walt Disney's Man in Space / cover / 1 page
Credits
- Pencils:
- ? (painted)
- Inks:
- ? (painted)
- Colors:
- ? (painted)
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- fact
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Dell Giant (Dell, 1959 series) #27 (January 1960)
Indexer Notes
Subtitled "A Science Feature from Tomorrowland"
Science-factual
Walt Disney's Man in Space / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Text and illustration. The title is a play on "science fiction."
Man in Space
Walt Disney's Man in Space / comic story / 32 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Don Christensen
- Pencils:
- Tony Sgroi
- Inks:
- Tony Sgroi
- Colors:
- ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- fact
- Characters:
- Sir Isaac Newton (cameo)
- Synopsis:
- A short history of rockets, then an examination of the problems facing humans if they were in a rocket shot into space. Predictions and descriptions of the building of an orbiting space wheel and the first interplanetary trip around the moon and back are depicted.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Dell Giant (Dell, 1959 series) #27 (January 1960)
Indexer Notes
Panels with typeset narration.
Rocketeer's Quiz!
activity / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Synopsis:
- Multiple choice questions about space.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Illustrations and typeset text. Dell's "A Pledge to Parents" is included in the lower right corner.
Building Space Station S-1
comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ? (painted)
- Inks:
- ? (painted)
- Colors:
- ? (painted)
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- Science Fiction
- Synopsis:
- The building of an orbiting space station.
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Six paintings with typeset text. The panel 2 painting is also used as the cover to this issue.
Editing
Table of Contents
-
1.
Science-factual
Walt Disney's Man in Space -
2.
Man in Space
Walt Disney's Man in Space -
3.
Rocketeer's Quiz!
-
4.
Building Space Station S-1
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Merlin Haas
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- Gene Reed
- Roger A. Budnick
- John P. Selegue
- Merlin Haas
- Ken Lemons
- Chris Launder
- Jim Walls
- Terry Vraspir
- Gary Perlman
- Jerry Hillegas
- Craig Delich
- James Ludwig
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Kenneth Blair
- Mike Nielsen
- David Porta
- Matthew Torrance
- Ken Kwilinski
- Gary L. Watson
- Gregg Whitmore
- Max Capp
- Tony R. Rose
- Lou Mazzella
- Rodney Hinkle
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Donald Dale Milne
- Karl Wilcox
- Darrel McCann
- Peter Croome
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