Four Color
#1173 - The Twilight Zone
(March-May 1961)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1960-12-29
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand
-
Dell Exciting Adventure
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- Bill Harris (editor)
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "THE TWILIGHT ZONE, No. 1173." Code number is T.T.ZONE O.S. #1173-612. Copyright 1960 by Cayuga Productions, Inc. Based on "The Twilight Zone" TV series.
On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date.
Harris confirmed as editor per his biblio in Robin Snyder's The Comics!, Vol 29, No.5, May 2018.
This issue has variants:
On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date.
Harris confirmed as editor per his biblio in Robin Snyder's The Comics!, Vol 29, No.5, May 2018.
This issue has variants:
[The Phantom Lighthouse]
The Twilight Zone / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Rod Serling (photo)
- Reprints
in 
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[no title indexed]
The Twilight Zone / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Script
- Rod Serling
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There is a fifth dimension...
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Reprints
-
in The Twilight Zone (Western, 1962 series) #21 (May 1967)
-
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. The intro to the TV show printed in white text against an abstract background.
Specter of Youth
The Twilight Zone / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- Leo Dorfman
- Pencils
- Reed Crandall; George Evans
- Inks
- George Evans; Reed Crandall
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Rod Serling (cameo)
- Synopsis
- A elderly merchant becomes rich by dealing in illegally obtained ancient artifacts. He receives a jar that supposedly contains a liquid that will give the gift of eternal youth.
- Reprints
-
in Gespenster Geschichten (Bastei Verlag, 1974 series) #36 which is reprinted - in The Twilight Zone (Western, 1962 series) #21 (May 1967)
-
Indexer Notes
Evans and Crandall appear to both work on pencils and inks. Dorfman credit from Martin O'Hearn at http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/.
The Phantom Lighthouse
The Twilight Zone / comic story / 12 pages
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Rod Serling (cameo)
- Synopsis
- On an ice-fishing trip to the Great Lakes, a father and his son find an old fisherman, who tells an odd story about needing to find his boat before a storm hits. Later, a storm breaks up the ice and the pair are stranded on an ice floe. They are saved when the floe is run aground on an island with a lighthouse, whose keeper is the old fisherman.
- Reprints
- in Gespenster Geschichten (Bastei Verlag, 1974 series) #35 which is reprinted
- in The Twilight Zone (Western, 1962 series) #21 (May 1967) [original page three deleted]
-
Indexer Notes
Newman script per biblio in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol. 31, No. 5, May 2020. Martin O'Hearn previously credited Leo Dorfman.
Doom by Prediction
The Twilight Zone / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Rod Serling (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Archie, a porter and handyman at an airport, seems to have the power of prophecy.
- Reprints
- in Gespenster Geschichten (Bastei Verlag, 1974 series) #33 which is reprinted
- in The Twilight Zone (Western, 1962 series) #25 (April 1968)
- in Mystery Comics Digest (Western, 1972 series) #18 (July 1974)
-
Indexer Notes
George Evans ink credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Dorfman credit from Martin O'Hearn at http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/.
Journeys into the Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- The possibilities of the existence of extra-sensory perception, telepathy, precognition, and psychometry.
- Reprints
- in The Twilight Zone (Western, 1962 series) #29 (June 1969)
- in Mystery Comics Digest (Western, 1972 series) #18 (July 1974)
-
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Reed Crandall inks credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Travelers in the Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone / text article / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Nostradamus; Edgar Cayce; Shanti Devi; Peter Hurcos
- Synopsis
- Four people with extra-sensory powers.
- Reprints
- in The Twilight Zone (Western, 1962 series) #26 (July 1968)
- in Mystery Comics Digest (Western, 1972 series) #21 (January 1975)
-
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Reed Crandall inks credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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Table of Contents
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0.
[The Phantom Lighthouse]
The Twilight Zone -
1.
["There is a fifth dimension..."]
The Twilight Zone -
2.
Specter of Youth
The Twilight Zone -
3.
The Phantom Lighthouse
The Twilight Zone -
4.
Doom by Prediction
The Twilight Zone -
5.
Journeys into the Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone -
6.
Travelers in the Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone
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