Four Color
#1145 - The Lost World
([September-November] 1960)
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1960-07-14
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
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Dell Movie Classic
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
"Movie Classic" on cover. Adapted from the 1960 movie "The Lost World."
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 "September-November" cover date.
On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date.
The Lost World
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Script
- Paul S. Newman
- Pencils
- ? (photos)
- Inks
- ? (photos)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Professor Challenger (photo of by Claude Rains); Ed Malone (photo of David Hedison); Lord John Roxton (photo of Michael Rennie); Jennifer Holmes (photo of by Jill St. John); Professor Summerlee (photo of Richard Haydn); Native Girl (photo of Vitina Marcus)
- Synopsis
- Preview of the story.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Five photos from the movie and a partial cast list. Script credit from "The Works of Paul S. Newman Part 25: 1960" by Robin Snyder in "The Comics" Vol. 19, No. 1 (January 2008).
The Lost World
comic story / 32 pages
- Script
- Paul S. Newman (comic adaptation); Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (original novel); Irwin Allen; Charles Bennett (screenplay)
- Pencils
- Gil Kane
- Inks
- Mike Peppe ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Professor Challenger, I'm Ed Malone, Global News Service! I'd like a few words--
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Professor Challenger; Lord John Roxton; Jennifer Holmes, Ed Malone; Professor Summerlee
- Synopsis
- Determined to prove his discovery of a lost world in the Amazon jungle, Professor Challenger leads an expedition by helicopter to a plateau filled with prehistoric beasts.
Indexer Notes
The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Adapted from the 1960 movie "The Lost World," which was based on the novel "The Lost World" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Script credit from "The Works of Paul S. Newman Part 25: 1960" by Robin Snyder in "The Comics" Vol. 19, No. 1 (January 2008). Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Synopsis
- Biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Script credit from "The Works of Paul S. Newman Part 25: 1960" by Robin Snyder in "The Comics" Vol. 19, No. 1 (January 2008). Letter credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
The Galapagos Islands
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Synopsis
- Description of the wildlife of the Galapagos Islands.
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Script credit from "The Works of Paul S. Newman Part 25: 1960" by Robin Snyder in "The Comics" Vol. 19, No. 1 (January 2008). Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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The Galapagos Islands
- Katie
- Dwayne Best
- John Censullo
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Bob Hughes
- Donald Dale Milne
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Brian Stewart
- Lynn Sutton
- Jim Van Dore
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