(January 1962)
- Price:
- 0.15 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 "Jules Verne's MYSTERIOUS ISLAND, No. 1213." Code number is M. ISLAND #1213-621. Copyright 1961 by Columbia Pictures Corporation. Adapted from the 1961 movie "Mysterious Island."
Mysterious Island
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ? (photos)
- Inks:
- ? (photos)
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction; period
- Characters:
- Neb Nugent (as played by Dan Jackson, photo)
- Synopsis:
- Preview of the story.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Five photos from the movie with typeset text. Most characters are not identifiable in the photos, which are mainly long shots.
Mysterious Island
comic story / 32 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Jules Verne (original story); John Prebble; Daniel B. Ullman; Crane Wilbur (screenplay); ? (comic adaptation)
- Pencils:
- Tom Gill
- Inks:
- Herb Trimpe
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction; period
- Characters:
- Cyrus Harding; Gideon Spilitt; Neb Nugent; Captain Nemo
- Synopsis:
- During the Civil War, three Union soldiers escape from a Confederate prison in a hot air balloon. They land on a volcanic island in the Pacific where they struggle against gigantic creatures while trying to devise a plan of escape.
Indexer Notes
Adapted from the 1961 movie "Mysterious Island," based on the novel by Jules Verne. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Herb Trimpe ink credit also in Who's Who's of American Comic Books 1928-1999 website.
Balloons At War
filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Tom Gill
- Inks:
- Herb Trimpe
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- fact
- Synopsis:
- The use of hot air balloons in war.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
Mysterious Island
filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ? (photos)
- Inks:
- ? (photos)
- Colors:
- ? (photos)
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction; period
- Synopsis:
- Preview of the story.
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Three photos from the movie in monochrome and black and white plus typeset text.
- Merlin Haas
- 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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