Classics Illustrated #107 [O] - King — of the Khyber Rifles
(May 1953)

Gilberton, 1947 Series
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0.15 USD
Pages
52
Indicia Frequency
monthly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Gilberton Company Inc.
Brand
Classics Illustrated
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Issue Notes

HRN 108; HRN 118 version with tattoo promo inside back cover.

An HRN 167 version exists, with the tattoo promo replaced by a promo for Classics Illustrated Junior.
This issue has variants:

King of the Khyber Rifles (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

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adventure
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Coming Next Month (Table of Contents: 1)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

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typeset

Indexer Notes

House ad for Classics Illustrated #108.

Alice (Table of Contents: 2)

Who Am I? / activity / 0.5 page (report information)

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King — of the Khyber Rifles (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 45 pages (report information)

Script
Talbot Mundy (original story); ? (adaptation)
Pencils
Sy Moskowitz (signed as S. Moskowitz)
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Sy Moskowitz (signed as S. Moskowitz)
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adventure
Characters
Captain Athelstan King; General Coates; Yasmini; Major Hyde; Rewa Gunga; Ismail; Major Courtenay; Darya Khan; Charles King; Muhammad Anim
Synopsis
Captain King is sent to stop a jihad from beginning in India.
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Talbot Mundy (Table of Contents: 4)

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typeset
Genre
non-fiction; biography
Synopsis
Biography of the writer Talbot Mundy.
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Balboa Discoverer of the Pacific Ocean (Table of Contents: 5)

Great Lives / text article / 1 page (report information)

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non-fiction; biography
Synopsis
Biography of the explorer Balboa.

The Miracle of 1951 (Table of Contents: 6)

Stories from the World of Sports / text article / 1 page (report information)

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non-fiction; sports
Synopsis
The true story of the 1951 New York Giants and their winning of the pennant.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text
40 of the world's greatest comic strip characters in tattoos...

Indexer Notes

House ad for a set of tattoos of comic strip characters free with Classics Illustrated subscription.

Inside back cover.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text
Collect and preserve your copies of Classics Illustrated...

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House ad for Classics Illustrated binders.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text
Read the best in the world's finest juvenile publication

Indexer Notes

House ad for Classics Illustrated issues up to HRN 108.

Back cover.

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Table of Contents
  1. 0. King of the Khyber Rifles
  2. 1. Coming Next Month
  3. 2. Alice
    Who Am I?
  4. 3. King — of the Khyber Rifles
  5. 4. Talbot Mundy
  6. 5. Balboa Discoverer of the Pacific Ocean
    Great Lives
  7. 6. The Miracle of 1951
    Stories from the World of Sports
  8. 7. ["40 of the world's greatest comic strip characters in tattoos..."]
  9. 8. ["Collect and preserve your copies of Classics Illustrated..."]
  10. 9. ["Read the best in the world's finest juvenile publication"]
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