Four Color
#1213 - Jules Verne's Mysterious Island
([February-April] 1962)
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1961-11-21
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
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Dell [stamp]
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Copyright 1961 by Columbia Pictures Corporation.
Adapted from the 1961 movie "Mysterious Island", with "Movie Classic" on cover.
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 "February-April 1962" cover date.
On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date.
Dell also published "Jules Verne's Mysterious Isle" #1 in 1963 as a more faithful adaptation of the book (so no giant animals).
Mysterious Island
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Genre
- historical; science fiction
- Characters
- Neb Nugent (photo of Dan Jackson)
- 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
- Script
- Jules Verne (original story); John Prebble; Daniel B. Ullman; Crane Wilbur (screenplay); ? (comic adaptation)
- Pencils
- Tom Gill
- Inks
- Tom Gill (main figures); Herb Trimpe (backgrounds)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- historical; science fiction
- 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.
Herb Trimpe ink credit per Who's Who's of American Comic Books 1928-1999 website. Trimpe elaborated in an interview published in The Incredible Herb Trimpe (2015), stating he only inked backgrounds, noting that Gill inked the main figures. Alberto Becattini previously credited Trimpe with solo inks.
Balloons at War
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Synopsis
- The use of hot air balloons in war.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white.
Herb Trimpe ink credit per Who's Who's of American Comic Books 1928-1999 website. Trimpe elaborated in an interview published in The Incredible Herb Trimpe (2015), stating he only inked backgrounds, noting that Gill inked the main figures. Alberto Becattini previously credited Trimpe with solo inks.
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- Dwayne Best
- Nick Caputo
- John Censullo
- Pat Conolly
- Clayton Emery
- Merlin Haas
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Donald Dale Milne
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
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