Four Color
#1088 - A Dog of Flanders
([April-June] 1960)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1960-02-18
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
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Dell Movie Classic
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "A DOG OF FLANDERS, No. 1088." Code number is DOG OF F.O.S. #1088-604. Copyright 1960 by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.
"Movie Classic" on cover. Adapted from the 1960 movie "A Dog of Flanders."
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 an "April-June 1960" cover date.
On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date.
This issue has variants:
"Movie Classic" on cover. Adapted from the 1960 movie "A Dog of Flanders."
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 an "April-June 1960" cover date.
On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date.
This issue has variants:
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A Dog of Flanders
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Genre
- children; historical
- Characters
- Nello Daas (photo of David Ladd); Jehan Daas (photo of Donald Crisp); Piet van Gelder (photo of Theodore Bikel); the Peddler (photo of John Soer)
- Synopsis
- Preview of the story.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Five photos and a partial cast and credits list from the movie.
A Dog of Flanders
comic story / 32 pages
- Script
- Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
- Pencils
- Bill Ziegler; Dan Spiegle
- Inks
- Dan Spiegle
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- animal; children; historical
- Characters
- Nello Daas; Jehan Daas; Piet van Gelder; Patrasche (dog)
- Synopsis
- Young Nello Daas is an aspiring artist who lives with his elderly grandfather. The two take in a cruelly-treated dog and nurse him back to health. Nello befriends an artist, who helps him when his grandfather dies and he is left on his own.
Indexer Notes
Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents". Some faces penciled by Dan Spiegle. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Based on the 1960 movie "A Dog of Flanders."
An Artist of Flanders
text article / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Peter Paul Ruebens
- Synopsis
- Facts about the life of Flemish master artist Peter Paul Ruebens.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text underneath. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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A Dog of Flanders
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A Dog of Flanders
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A Dog of Flanders
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An Artist of Flanders
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4.
"Visit" Hawaii for Only 10¢
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5.
The Timeless Land of Flanders
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Dwayne Best
- Chris Boyko
- John Censullo
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Alan Hutchinson
- Donald Dale Milne
- Keith Alan Morgan
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