Classics Illustrated #133 - The Time Machine [HRN 167]
(March 1966)

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

Issue Notes

Printed in the U.S.A. Inside front cover has a binder promo. Inside back cover has a promo for Classics Illustrated Junior (HRN 576).
This issue is a variant of Classics Illustrated (Gilberton, 1947 series) #133 [O] - The Time Machine.

Coming Next (Table of Contents: 1)

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

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Indexer Notes

Found on the inside front cover. House ad for #134 Romeo and Juliet

HRN 152 edition replaces this sequence with publisher's promotional advertisement for three of Gilberton Company's comic titles (with covers): The Illustrated Story of the Marines, The Illustrated Story of Horses, and the Illustrated Story of Space, plus a coupon for ordering the new issue of "The World Around Us" is included.

Alleyne Edricson (Table of Contents: 2)

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

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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
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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.
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Keywords
time travel

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

text article / 1 page (report information)

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Alex Blum (spot illustrations)
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Alex Blum (spot illustrations)
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Genre
non-fiction; biography
Characters
H. G. Wells; Amy Catherine Robbins (Well's second wife)
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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
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Lou Cameron
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Lou Cameron
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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
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Pencils
Alex Blum (spot illustration)
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Alex Blum (spot illustration)
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Genre
non-fiction; biography
Characters
Charles Darwin
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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)

Classics Illustrated / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Free! Free! Free! 40 of the world's greatest comic strip characters in tattoos

Indexer Notes

Found on the inside back cover. 40 comic strip character tattoos with subscription to Classics Illustrated.

HRN 152 edition replaces this sequence with a different advertisement from Gilberton Company, Inc. for an attractive, permanent binder to house and preserve copies of Classics Illustrated. Cost $1 each and each holds 12 issues. Coupon provided for ordering.

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

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

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typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Read the best in the world's finest juvenile publication

Indexer Notes

Found on the back cover; lists Classics Illustrated issues up to #132 and shows cover to #130.

HRN #152 edition gives listing of the currently available issues of Classics Illustrated, displaying the cover to #149, plus a coupon readers could use to order any of the available issues of the 152 published to date.

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