The World Around Us
#30 - Undersea Adventures
(February 1961)
Gilberton,
1958 Series
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1961-01-03
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Gilberton World-Wide Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
A Classics Illustrated Publication
- Editing
- Roberta Strauss (editor)
Issue Notes
Alfred Sundel (Associate Editor); Helene Lecar (Assistant Editor); Jane Elizabeth Churchman (Copy Editor); Leonard Cole (Art Director); Meyer A. Kaplan (Production Director); European Advisory Board Stig Jensen (Denmark); Kai Brunila (Finland); Jean Chapelle (France); Heinz Asmussen (Germany); Gerald Roord (the Netherlands); Martin Nielsen (Norway); Rolf Janson (Sweden); Patricia Schooling (United Kingdom). On-sale date from 1961 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
Keywords education; exploration; explorer; fact; frogman; ocean; oceanography; scuba; skin diver; skin diving; submarine
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Jay Scott Pike (painting)
- Inks
- Jay Scott Pike (painting)
- Colors
- Jay Scott Pike (painting)
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- scuba divers; shark
- Synopsis
- Scuba divers, armed with knife and spear gun, confronting large shark
- Reprints
-
in Unsere Welt Illustrierte (BSV - Williams, 1961 series) #19 -
in Wereld in beeld (Classics/Williams, 1960 series) #19 - Wonderen van de diepzee ([1961]) -
in Alt i bilder (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1960 series) #19 - Havets mysterier ([1961]) -
in World Illustrated (Thorpe & Porter, 1960 series) #519 - Story of Undersea Adventures ([1962])
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- Keywords
- education; fact; frogman; ocean; oceanography; scuba; shark
Indexer Notes
Painted cover signed at center of bottom border
Table of Contents
table of contents / 1 page
- Letters
- typeset
- Synopsis
- Table of contents; indicia; editorial credits
Undersea Adventures
illustration / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Dick Ayers
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- two scientists
- Synopsis
- Two scientists peering at the underwater world through the window of a bathysphere; introductory text for the issue
- Reprints
- Keywords
- bathysphere; education; exploration; explorer; fact; ocean; oceanography
The Frogmen
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; war
- Characters
- Men of the Italian Tenth Light Flotilla
- Synopsis
- Riding undersea "pig" piloted torpedoes, Italian frogmen attack British warships in Alexandria and Gibraltar.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- education; Egypt; fact; frogman; Gibraltar; navy; ocean; scuba; submarine; World War II
Indexer Notes
Torres credit per Dan Malan from his book The Complete Guide to Classics Illustrated.
Mines Below
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; war
- Characters
- Lieutenant Lionel Crabb; Royal Navy scuba divers
- Synopsis
- Lionel Crabb joins British scuba divers protecting shipping and fighting Italian frogmen in Gibraltar.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- education; fact; frogman; Gibraltar; navy; scuba; World War II
Indexer Notes
Torres credit per Dan Malan from his book The Complete Guide to Classics Illustrated.
Underwater Conquest
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- sponge divers; pearl divers; Spartan swimmers; Alexander the Great; David Bushnell; Robert Fulton
- Synopsis
- History of underwater exploration, from ancient Greek sponge divers through early underwater devices, experiments by Bushnell and Fulton, and the first bathysphere.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- bathysphere; education; exploration; explorer; fact; submarine
Indexer Notes
Sam Glanzman's distinctive style may be confidently identified.
Sea Monsters -- False and True
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Gray Morrow
- Inks
- Gray Morrow
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Synopsis
- Five mythical sea creature as imagined in the sixteenth century, and five unusual real sea creatures.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- education; fact; sea monster
Indexer Notes
Artist credit verified by Roger Hill
Sunken Treasure
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Lou Morales
- Inks
- Lou Morales
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Captain Thomas Dickinson, R.N.; Brazilian divers; Kefti mariners; Turkish sponge diver
- Synopsis
- Captain Dickinson uses a diving bell to salvage treasure lost in a shipwreck; modern divers use scuba gear; divers investigate Mayan wells, and a Kefti shipwreck in the Mediterranean
- Reprints
- Keywords
- archaeology; archeology; Brazil; education; exploration; explorer; fact; salvage; scuba; shipwreck; treasure
Indexer Notes
Morales credit per Dan Malan from his book The Complete Guide to Classics Illustrated.
Skin Diving
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- game warden; scientist; skin divers; geologists
- Synopsis
- Explanations of skin diving, practical applications in wildlife management, oil prospecting, police work, and scientific studies are given.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- education; exploration; explorer; fact; scuba; skin diver; skin diving
Indexer Notes
Tallarico credit per Dan Malan from his book The Complete Guide to Classics Illustrated.
In Magellan's Wake
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Captain Edward L. Beach; crew of the US nuclear submarine Triton
- Synopsis
- Beach and his crew conduct the Triton on the world's first underwater circumnavigation of the globe.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- education; exploration; explorer; fact; navy; submarine
Indexer Notes
Sam Glanzman's style is distinctive, and may be identified with confidence.
Seven Miles Down
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Jacques Piccard; Lieutenant Don Walsh
- Synopsis
- Piccard and Walsh take the first bathyscaph (Trieste) to a record depth -- 35,800 feet in the Marianas Trench.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- bathyscaph; education; exploration; explorer; fact; navy; oceanography; submarine
Indexer Notes
Campbell credit per Dan Malan from his book The Complete Guide to Classics Illustrated.
The Duel
text story / 5 pages
- Script
- Guy de Maupassant (original); ? (adaptation)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Jack Kirby
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- drama
- Characters
- Viscount Gontram Joseph de Signoles; George Lamil; the Colonel
- Synopsis
- After provoking a duel, the Viscount kills himself rather than actually face it.
- Keywords
- duel; suicide
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustrations by Kirby. The character illustrated on page 51 strongly resembles Mastermind as he first appeared in The X-Men.
D-Day Part 4: Night Drop
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; war
- Characters
- U.S. airborne troopers; British airborne troopers; German soldiers
- Synopsis
- U.S. and U.K. paratroopers and glider troopers descend on Normandy and attack the Germans, hours before the D-Day seaborne assault.
- Keywords
- D-Day; education; fact; glider; Normandy; paratrooper; World War II
The Red Planet Part 4: A Trip to Mars
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Astronauts
- Synopsis
- Speculation in the means of the first flight to Mars, and what astronauts might find there.
- Keywords
- astronaut; educational; fact; Mars; rocket; space; space travel
Indexer Notes
Last installment of series.
The World of Science: Blue Skies
activity / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Dick Ayers
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Synopsis
- Comic-story activity on why the sky is blue, and how to separate blue light from white light.
- Keywords
- educational; fact; light; optics; spectrum
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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[no title indexed]
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1.
Table of Contents
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2.
Undersea Adventures
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3.
The Frogmen
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4.
Mines Below
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5.
Underwater Conquest
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6.
Sea Monsters -- False and True
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7.
Sunken Treasure
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8.
Skin Diving
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9.
In Magellan's Wake
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10.
Seven Miles Down
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11.
The Duel
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12.
D-Day Part 4: Night Drop
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13.
The Red Planet Part 4: A Trip to Mars
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14.
The World of Science: Blue Skies
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