Lion of Sparta
#12-439-301
([January] 1963)
Dell,
1963 Series
Published in English
(United States)
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1962-06-28
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
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Dell [rectangle]
- Editing
- Don Arneson
- Color
- color
- Dimensions
- standard Silver Age US
- Paper Stock
- newsprint
- Binding
- saddle-stitched
- Publishing Format
- one-shot
Issue Notes
Movie Classic #12-439-301.
Although there is no month given in the indicia, the last 3 digits of the cover code (12-439-301) indicate a cover date of [196]3-01, i.e. January 1963.
On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date. This movie (a.k.a. The 300 Spartans) was released in the U.S. on August 29, 1962.
Although there is no month given in the indicia, the last 3 digits of the cover code (12-439-301) indicate a cover date of [196]3-01, i.e. January 1963.
On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date. This movie (a.k.a. The 300 Spartans) was released in the U.S. on August 29, 1962.
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Lion of Sparta
Lion of Sparta / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Genre
- adventure; historical
- Characters
- Leonidas (photo of Richard Egan); Themistocles (photo of Sir Ralph Richardson); Xerxes (photo of David Farrar); Samos (photo of Dimos Starenios); Agathon (photo of John Crawford)
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Movie credits, text and five stills; in black and white on inside front cover
Lion of Sparta
Lion of Sparta / comic story / 32 pages
- Genre
- adventure; historical
- Characters
- Leonidas; Themistocles; Ellas; Xerxes; Samos; Ephialtes; Phylon; Gorgo
- Synopsis
- As the Persians invade Greece, Athens and Sparta concert their actions against the enemy. Spartan King Leonidas holds the Pass of Thermopylae with 300 men against repeated assaults by vastly superior numbers. But Spartans opposed to Leonidas plot to leave him stranded, rather than sending reinforcements, and a Greek traitor guides the Persians around the Pass. Leonidas and his men fight and die in place, in obedience to the Spartan laws.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Greece; massacre; Persia; Persians; Sparta; Spartans; Themopylae
Indexer Notes
Newman script per Biblio printed in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 22, #7, July 2013. Based on the film The 300 Spartans, from Twentieth-Century Fox.
Spartan Discipline
text article / 1 page
Indexer Notes
In black and white on inside back cover
Editing
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["BB gun fun for you and your dad!!!"]
Daisy Air Rifles / Daisy B-B Guns
This issue was modified by, among others
- Alberto Becattini
- Chris Boyko
- Nick Caputo
- John Censullo
- Gregory Fischer
- Kirk House
- Donald Dale Milne
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
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