Four Color
#1139 - Spartacus
([November 1960-January 1961])
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1960-09-15
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Dell Movie Classic
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
"Movie Classic" on cover. Based on the 1960 movie "Spartacus."
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 "November-January" cover date.
On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date.
Spartacus
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Genre
- historical
- Characters
- Spartacus (photo of Kirk Douglas)
- Synopsis
- Preview of the story.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Five photos from the movie, plus a partial cast list.
Spartacus
comic story / 32 pages
- Script
- Gaylord Du Bois (comic adaptation); Dalton Trumbo (screenplay)
- Pencils
- John Buscema
- Inks
- John Buscema (pages 1-10); Mike Peppe (pages 11-32)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- historical
- Characters
- Spartacus; Marcellus; Batiatus; Varinia; Gracchus; Antonius; Crassus
- Synopsis
- Spartacus, a gladiator, leads a slave revolt against the Roman Empire.
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
Adapted from the 1960 Universal-International movie "Spartacus." Script submitted on August 23, 1959. 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). Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Additional art information from the John Buscema checklist built by Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr and Michel Maillot.
Military Leaders of the Later Roman Republic
text article / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Gauis Marius; Lucius Cornelius Sulla; Marcus Licinius Crassus
- Synopsis
- Short biographies of three Roman leaders.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Script submitted on August 31, 1959. 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). Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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