Four Color #716 - Walt Disney's Man in Space [10¢]
(August 1956)

Dell, 1942 Series
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Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
On-sale Date
1956
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
Brand
Dell
Printer
Printed in U.S.A.
Editing
Alice Nielsen Cobb (managing editor); Chase Craig (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)

Issue Notes

Indicia title is "Walt Disney's MAN IN SPACE, No. 716." Code number is M.I.S. O.S. #716-568. Copyright 1956 by Walt Disney Productions. Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994).
This issue has variants:

Walt Disney's Man in Space (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
? (painted)
Inks
? (painted)
Colors
? (painted)
Letters
typeset
Genre
non-fiction
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Indexer Notes

Subtitled "A Science Feature from Tomorrowland".

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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Letters
typeset
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Science fiction gives way to science-factual
Genre
non-fiction

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover; black and white. Text and illustration. The title is a play on "science fiction."

Walt Disney's Man in Space (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 32 pages (report information)

Script
Don R. Christensen
Pencils
Tony Sgroi
Inks
Tony Sgroi
Colors
Western Publishing Production Shop
Letters
typeset
Genre
non-fiction
Characters
Sir Isaac Newton (cameo)
Synopsis
A short history of rockets, then an examination of the problems facing humans if they were in a rocket shot into space. Predictions and descriptions of the building of an orbiting space wheel and the first interplanetary trip around the moon and back are depicted.
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Indexer Notes

Panels with typeset narration.

Rocketeer's Quiz! (Table of Contents: 3)

activity / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Letters
typeset
Synopsis
Multiple choice questions about space.

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover; black and white. Illustrations and typeset text. Dell's "A Pledge to Parents" is included in the lower right corner.

Building Space Station S-1 (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
? (painted)
Inks
? (painted)
Colors
? (painted)
Letters
typeset
Genre
science fiction
Synopsis
The building of an orbiting space station.

Indexer Notes

Back cover; six paintings with typeset text; The panel 2 painting is also used as the cover to this issue.

Some copies with ad on back cover (see sequence 5).

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

Wrigley's Juicy Fruit / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Table of Contents
  1. 0. Walt Disney's Man in Space
  2. 1. ["Science fiction gives way to science-factual"]
  3. 2. Walt Disney's Man in Space
  4. 3. Rocketeer's Quiz!
  5. 4. Building Space Station S-1
  6. 5. ["Bill Wisdom says: Your vacation is so short..."]
    Wrigley's Juicy Fruit
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Chris Boyko
  • Peter Croome
  • Merlin Haas
  • Jan Roar Hansen
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Keith Alan Morgan
  • Mike Nielsen
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