Classics Illustrated #133 [O] - The Time Machine
(July 1956)

Gilberton, 1947 Series
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Price
0.15 USD
Pages
52
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Gilberton Company Inc.
Brand
Classics Illustrated
Editing
Meyer Kaplan (managing editor); William E. Kanter (editor); Alex Blum (art director)

Issue Notes

An HRN 167 edition exists, with differing promos on the inside covers.
This issue has variants:

The Time Machine (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
George Wilson (painting)
Inks
George Wilson (painting)
Colors
George Wilson (painting)
Letters
?

Genre
science fiction
Characters
H. G. Wells
Reprints
Keywords
time travel

Coming Next (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

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

Alleyne Edricson (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Reprints

Indexer Notes

Found on the inside front cover.

Five different clues are given to the reader to decipher in order to determine the identity of a famous literary character (Alleyne Edricson).

The indicia is also found on this page, and lists Meyer A. Kaplan as Managing Editor, and is dated July 1956.

The Time Machine (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 44 pages (report information)

Script
H. G. Wells (credited) ((original author)); Lorenz Graham (adaptation)
Pencils
Lou Cameron
Inks
Lou Cameron
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Scientific people know very well that time is only a kind of space.
Genre
science fiction
Characters
Narrator [the Time Traveler]; Wells' unnamed friends; Eloi (people from over 800,000 years in the future); Weena (girl, a Eloi); The Morlocks (villains)
Synopsis
The narrator is late to dinner with his friends, but shows up, clothes tattered, and he tells them the story of his time machine, travel into the very distant future, falling in love, battling the Morlocks, and his arrival back into the present. His only proof to them were flowers given to him as a present from Weena.
Reprints
Keywords
time travel

H. G. Wells (Table of Contents: 4)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Alex Blum (spot illustrations)
Inks
Alex Blum (spot illustrations)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
non-fiction; biography
Characters
H. G. Wells; Amy Catherine Robbins (Well's second wife)
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Spot illustrated biography of Herbert George Wells, born September 21, 1866, died August 13, 1946.

Part 7: The Elizabethan Age (Table of Contents: 5)

The Story of Great Britain / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Lou Cameron
Inks
Lou Cameron
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
history
Characters
Elizabeth I; Elizabeth I's un-named suitor (death); John (settler)
Reprints
Keywords
Elizabethan Age; Spanish Armada

Indexer Notes

Story of of Great Britain's Elizabeth I (daughter of Henry VIII), from age 3 through adulthood, spotlighting the death of her mother and suitor, imprisonment, explorations and settlements, prosperity and advancements in the arts, as well as trade and exploration.

Part 8 is titled "The Puritan Revolution", appearing in the next issue.

Charles Darwin (Table of Contents: 6)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Alex Blum (spot illustration)
Inks
Alex Blum (spot illustration)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
non-fiction; biography
Characters
Charles Darwin
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Biography, with spot illustration, of the English scientist, Charles Darwin, born in 1809 and who died April 19, 1882. Much of the article discusses his theory of evolution.

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

Classics Illustrated / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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

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

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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Time Machine
  2. 1. Coming Next
  3. 2. Alleyne Edricson
    Who Am I?
  4. 3. The Time Machine
  5. 4. H. G. Wells
  6. 5. Part 7: The Elizabethan Age
    The Story of Great Britain
  7. 6. Charles Darwin
  8. 7. ["Free! Free! Free! 40 of the world's greatest comic strip characters in tattoos"]
    Classics Illustrated
  9. 8. ["Read the best in the world's finest juvenile publication"]
    Classics Illustrated
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