Four Color #1121 - Hercules Unchained
([August-October] 1960)

Dell, 1942 Series
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Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
On-sale Date
1960-06-16
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
Brand
Dell Movie Classic
Printer
Printed in U.S.A.
Editing
Helen Meyer (president)

Issue Notes

Indicia title is "HERCULES UNCHAINED, No. 1121". Copyright 1960 by Galatea, S.P.A.

"Movie Classic" on cover. Adapted from the 1959 movie "Ercole e la Regina di Lidia", translated into English and released in the United States in 1960 as "Hercules Unchained".

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 "August-October 1960" cover date.

On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Hecules Unchained / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
? (painting)
Inks
? (painting)
Colors
? (painting)
Letters
typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Mighty Hercules battles man-eating tigers and an enemy army to save a besieged kingdom!
Genre
adventure; historical
Characters
Hercules

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

Hecules Unchained / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
? (photographs)
Inks
? (photographs)
Letters
typeset

Genre
adventure; historical

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover includes credits and four scenes from the movie.

Hercules Unchained (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 32 pages (report information)

Script
Paul S. Newman
Pencils
Reed Crandall
Inks
Reed Crandall; George Evans
Colors
?
Letters
Ben Oda

Genre
adventure; historical

Indexer Notes

Adapted from the 1960 Warner Bros movie "Hercules Unchained." Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Paul S. Newman's personal records (November 2007).

The Feats of Hercules (Table of Contents: 3)

Hercules / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
adventure; historical

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover; black and white.

We formerly suggested both pencils and inks as by Reed Crandall and/or George Evans, but Roger Hill doesn't see any Crandall or Evans on this page.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Hercules / photo story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
? (photograph)
Inks
? (photograph)
Colors
? (photograph)
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Back cover. Scene from the movie.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. ["Mighty Hercules battles man-eating tigers and an enemy army to save a besieged kingdom!"]
    Hecules Unchained
  2. 1. [no title indexed]
    Hecules Unchained
  3. 2. Hercules Unchained
  4. 3. The Feats of Hercules
    Hercules
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
    Hercules
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Ray Bottorff Jr
  • Nick Caputo
  • John Censullo
  • Merlin Haas
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Donald Dale Milne
  • Keith Alan Morgan
  • Antonio Pontes Junior
  • Jim Van Dore
  • Jim Walls