Four Color
#784 - Around the World in Eighty Days
(February 1957)
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co.
- Brand
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Dell A Movie Classic
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Code number is A.T.W.O.S. #784-572.
Copyright 1956 by The Michael Todd Corporation. Adapted from the 1956 movie of the same name.
"Movie Classic" on cover.
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Around the World in 80 Days
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Genre
- adventure; historical
- Characters
- Phileas Fogg (photo of David Niven); Passepartout (photo of Cantinflas)
- Synopsis
- Teaser for the story, told in six movie stills.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Includes cast and credits list from the movie.
Around the World in 80 Days
comic story / 32 pages
- Script
- Jules Verne (original story); Gaylord Du Bois (comic adaptation)
- Pencils
- Mike Sekowsky
- Inks
- Mike Peppe
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure; historical
- Characters
- Phileas Fogg; Passepartout; Lady Aouda
- Synopsis
- Phileas Fogg bets the members of London's exclusive Reform Club £20,000 that he can travel around the world in 80 Days. He and his valet have a number of adventures, including rescuing a young widow from a funeral pyre in India. She joins the pair for the remainder of their journey.
Indexer Notes
Adapted from the 1956 movie "Around the World in 80 Days," which was based on the Jules Verne novel of the same name. Script submitted on August 25, 1956. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).
Wonders of the World
text article / 1 page
- Script
- Gaylord Du Bois
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Synopsis
- Facts about famous landmarks such as The Tower of London, The Eiffel Tower, Leaning Tower of Pisa; Great Pyramid; Taj Mahal, and the White House.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text underneath. Script submitted on October 15, 1956. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).
Travel - Yesterday and Today
text article / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Synopsis
- Comparisons of old-time and modern forms of transportation.
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents". Panels with typeset text underneath them. Script submitted on October 15, 1956. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).
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Around the World in 80 Days
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Wonders of the World
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Travel - Yesterday and Today
- Katie
- Valmiki Annamanthadoo
- Dwayne Best
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Thomas Johnson
- Donald Dale Milne
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Tony R. Rose
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