(October 1969)
Western,
1968 Series
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- On-sale Date
- 1969-07-17
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Western Publishing Company Inc.
- Brand
-
Gold Key
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Gold Key cover code: 10225-910. On-sale date from 1969 Books and Pamphlets, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
[no title indexed]
Captain Venture / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- George Wilson (painting)
- Inks
- George Wilson (painting)
- Colors
- George Wilson (painting)
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Controlled creatures capture Rex and Scotty in the weird underworld of Planet Plantis!
- Genre
- adventure; science fiction
- Characters
- Captain Rex Venture; Scotty Mackay
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Alberto Becattini (December 2010).
Astronomy: Eclipses
Keys of Knowledge / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Synopsis
- Facts about eclipses.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover
Fall Far... Fall Deep
Captain Venture / comic story / 26 pages
- Script
- Gaylord Du Bois
- Pencils
- Dan Spiegle (signed)
- Inks
- Dan Spiegle (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure; science fiction
- Characters
- Captain Rex Venture; Scotty Mackay; Hera (first appearance); Lucan (first appearance); Rela; Teemuth
- Synopsis
- Rex and Scotty are forced to land their tiny space module on a volcano when it overheats. While exploring they fall into a bottomless pit but are saved when a side draft pulls them into a hole in the wall of the volcano and they land on giant mushrooms. They rescue a humanoid named Hera from strange creatures and she takes them home to meet her father Lucan, a scientist. Rex is leery of Hera for good reason as Lucan attempts to drug them so that he can experiment on them.
Indexer Notes
Pages 1-14 and 19-30. This story is reported as a reprint at various websites but I believe it to be an original story as it doesn't reprint any of the strips from Space Family Robinson.
Porpoise
Keys of Knowledge / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; animal
- Synopsis
- Facts about dolphins.
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Alberto Becattini (December 2010).
[Dinosaur Chases His Tail]
Mini-Comics / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A dinosuar bites his own tail by mistake.
[How to Stop Rain]
Mini-Comics / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A man gets all dressed up for rain but finds the sun shining when he goes outside.
[no title indexed]
Jest for Fun / text article / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Mother: Why is a big boy like you counting...
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
Jokes.
The Marsh Dwellers
Prehistoria / text article / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Synopsis
- "Facts" about humans who lived in the marshes after the last ice age.
Post
Picture Dictionary / text article / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Synopsis
- Various examples of the different ways the word "post" is used.
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Alberto Becattini (December 2010).
[no title indexed]
Chuckle Time / cartoon / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- For you, I'd suggest this little peek-a-boo number.
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
Four different cartoons.
Astronomy: The Sun and Sunspots
Keys of Knowledge / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; math & science
- Synopsis
- Facts about the sun and sunspots.
- Reprints
in Captain Venture Pin-Up
Captain Venture / illustration / 1 page
- Pencils
- George Wilson (painting)
- Inks
- George Wilson (painting)
- Colors
- George Wilson (painting)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure; science fiction
- Characters
- Captain Rex Venture; Scotty Mackay
Indexer Notes
Reprint of the cover without logo or lettering.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Controlled creatures capture Rex and Scotty in the weird underworld of Planet Plantis!"]
Captain Venture -
1.
Astronomy: Eclipses
Keys of Knowledge -
2.
Fall Far... Fall Deep
Captain Venture -
3.
Porpoise
Keys of Knowledge -
4.
[Dinosaur Chases His Tail]
Mini-Comics -
5.
[How to Stop Rain]
Mini-Comics -
6.
["Mother: Why is a big boy like you counting..."]
Jest for Fun -
7.
The Marsh Dwellers
Prehistoria -
8.
Post
Picture Dictionary -
9.
["For you, I'd suggest this little peek-a-boo number."]
Chuckle Time -
10.
Astronomy: The Sun and Sunspots
Keys of Knowledge -
11.
Captain Venture Pin-Up
Captain Venture
This issue was modified by, among others
- Chris Boyko
- Steve Coates
- CTGarry
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Darrel McCann
- Tony R. Rose
- Mark Rudnitski (R.I.P.)
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are
copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.