(November 1960)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand:
- Dell Movie Classic
- Editing:
- ?
- Format:
- Color; standard Golden Age and later Silver Age formats; saddle-stitched; newsprint; was an On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "SPARTACUS, No. 1139." Code number is SPARTACUS O.S. #1139-6011. Copyright 1960 by Bryna Productions. Based on the 1960 movie "Spartacus."
Spartacus
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ? (photos)
- Inks:
- ? (photos)
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- period
- Characters:
- Spartacus (as played by Kirk Douglas, photos)
- 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
Credits
- Script:
- Dalton Trumbo (screenplay); Gaylord Du Bois (comic adaptation)
- Pencils:
- John Buscema
- Inks:
- John Buscema (pages 1-10); Mike Peppe (pages 11-32)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- period
- Characters:
- Spartacus; Marcellus; Batiatus; Varinia; Gracchus; Antonius; Crassus
- Synopsis:
- Spartacus, a gladiator, leads a slave revolt against the Roman Empire.
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
filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Gaylord Du Bois
- Pencils:
- John Buscema
- Inks:
- Mike Peppe ?
- Letters:
- Ben Oda
Content Information
- Genre:
- fact
- 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)
Spartacus
filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ? (photos)
- Inks:
- ? (photos)
- Colors:
- ? (photos)
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Characters:
- Spartacus (as played by Kirk Douglas, photo)
- Synopsis:
- Preview of the story.
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Two black and white photos with monochrome overlays.
- Michel Maillot
- Merlin Haas
- Bob Hughes
- Gene Reed
- Roger A. Budnick
- John P. Selegue
- Merlin Haas
- Ken Lemons
- Chris Launder
- Jim Walls
- Terry Vraspir
- Gary Perlman
- Jerry Hillegas
- Craig Delich
- James Ludwig
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Kenneth Blair
- Mike Nielsen
- David Porta
- Matthew Torrance
- Ken Kwilinski
- Gary L. Watson
- Gregg Whitmore
- Max Capp
- Tony R. Rose
- Lou Mazzella
- Rodney Hinkle
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Donald Dale Milne
- Karl Wilcox
- Darrel McCann
- Peter Croome
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