Four Color
#1052 - Ben Hur
([December 1959-February 1960])
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1959-10-15
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
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Dell Movie Classic
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "Ben Hur, No. 1052" (no hyphen in indicia title, hyphen in cover title). Code number is B.HUR O.S. #1052-5911. Copyright 1959 by Loew's Incorporated.
"Movie Classic" on cover. Adapted from the 1959 movie "Ben-Hur".
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 1959-February 1960" cover date.
On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date.
"Movie Classic" on cover. Adapted from the 1959 movie "Ben-Hur".
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 1959-February 1960" cover date.
On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date.
MGM's Ben-Hur
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Sam Savitt (painting)
- Inks
- Sam Savitt (painting)
- Colors
- Sam Savitt (painting)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- historical
- Characters
- Ben-Hur
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
Cover art credit from "Sam Savitt Checklist" in Illustration Magazine Vol 1, #4 (August 2002).
Ben-Hur
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Genre
- historical
- Characters
- Ben-Hur; Messala
- Synopsis
- Preview of the story.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Four illustrations with typeset text. Movie poster with partial cast and credits list is also printed.
Ben-Hur
comic story / 32 pages
- Script
- Lew Wallace (original story); Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer (comic adaptation)
- Pencils
- Russ Manning
- Inks
- Russ Manning
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Russ Manning
- Genre
- historical
- Characters
- Judah Ben-Hur; Messala; Quintus Arrius; Tiberius; Pontius Pilate (cameo); Joseph; Mary; Jesus Christ
- Synopsis
- Messala returns to Jerusalem to become commander of the Roman Legion there. He meets a childhood friend, Prince Judah Ben-Hur, who is the richest man in the city. Massala asks him to put down a possible rebellion by the Jews. Ben-Hur refuses and is sentenced to be a galley slave. After three years on the galleys, he saves the life of Commander Quintus Arrius during a sea battle and is given his freedom, though not allowed to return to Judea. He becomes an expert chariot racer and is rewarded by being named Arrius' heir. He is able to return to Judea, where he challenges Messala to a chariot race to the death. While all this is happening, the story of Jesus Christ is being told in the background.
Indexer Notes
Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Adapted from the 1959 movie "Ben-Hur," based on the Lew Wallace novel of the same name. Though the Christ story plays an important part in the plot, Jesus is never directly referred to by name and his face is never depicted. Letters credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
Editing
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Series Information
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This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Dwayne Best
- Chris Boyko
- John Censullo
- Merlin Haas
- Katy Hayhurst
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Donald Dale Milne
- Tony R. Rose
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