Four Color
#1144 - The Story of Ruth
([September-November] 1960)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1960-07-14
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
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Dell Movie Classic
- Printer
- Western Printing and Lithographing Company
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "THE STORY OF RUTH, No. 1144". Copyright 1960 by 20th Century-Fox Film Corp.
"Movie Classic" on cover. Adapted from the 1960 movie "The Story of Ruth".
No month is given on the cover or in the indicia. Based on the copyright dates of this issue and others in the series released around the same time, one can determine that this issue was published with other Four Color issues bearing a "September-November 1960" cover date.
On-sale date from 1960 Books and Pamphlets, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
This issue has variants:
"Movie Classic" on cover. Adapted from the 1960 movie "The Story of Ruth".
No month is given on the cover or in the indicia. Based on the copyright dates of this issue and others in the series released around the same time, one can determine that this issue was published with other Four Color issues bearing a "September-November 1960" cover date.
On-sale date from 1960 Books and Pamphlets, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
This issue has variants:
![Cover Thumbnail for Four Color (1942 series) #1144 - The Story of Ruth [British]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1061/w100/1061127.jpg?3566761632619554500)
The Story of Ruth
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Genre
- historical; religious
- Characters
- Ruth (photo of Viveca Lindfors); Boaz (photo of Stuart Whitman)
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
The Story of Ruth
comic story / 32 pages
- Genre
- historical; religious
- Characters
- Ruth; other Biblical personages
Indexer Notes
Adapted from the 1960 20th Century Fox movie "The Story of Ruth." Script submitted on April 19, 1960. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).
Prophets of Israel
illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; religious
- Characters
- Moses; Samuel; King David; Elijah; Elisha
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Script submitted on May 21, 1960. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).
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Table of Contents
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The Story of Ruth
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The Story of Ruth
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The Story of Ruth
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Prophets of Israel
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[Viveca Lindfors photo]
The Story of Ruth
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- John Censullo
- Steve Coates
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Bob Hughes
- Alan Hutchinson
- Thomas Johnson
- Donald Dale Milne
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Jim Van Dore
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