Four Color #1213 Values

Publisher: Dell, 1962

About Four Color #1213

Movie Classic. Photo cover, back cover, and frontispiece. Tom Gill and Herb Trimpe art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: Mysterious Island

Pencils: ? (photograph)

Inks: ? (photograph)

Colors: ? (photograph)

Letters: typeset

STORY DETAILS

(2 Stories)

Title: Mysterious Island

Characters: Cyrus Harding; Gideon Spilitt; Neb Nugent; Captain Nemo

Synopsis: During the Civil War, three Union soldiers escape from a Confederate prison in a hot air balloon. They land on a volcanic island in the Pacific where they struggle against gigantic creatures while trying to devise a plan of escape.

Pages: 32.000

Script: Jules Verne (original story); John Prebble; Daniel B. Ullman; Crane Wilbur (screenplay); ? (comic adaptation)

Pencils: Tom Gill

Inks: Tom Gill (main figures); Herb Trimpe (backgrounds)

Notes: Adapted from the 1961 movie "Mysterious Island," based on the novel by Jules Verne. Herb Trimpe ink credit per Who's Who's of American Comic Books 1928-1999 website. Trimpe elaborated in an interview published in The Incredible Herb Trimpe (2015), stating he only inked backgrounds, noting that Gill inked the main figures. Alberto Becattini previously credited Trimpe with solo inks.

Title: Balloons at War

Synopsis: The use of hot air balloons in war.

Pages: 1.000

Pencils: Tom Gill

Inks: Tom Gill (main figures); Herb Trimpe (backgrounds)

Notes: Inside back cover; black and white. Herb Trimpe ink credit per Who's Who's of American Comic Books 1928-1999 website. Trimpe elaborated in an interview published in The Incredible Herb Trimpe (2015), stating he only inked backgrounds, noting that Gill inked the main figures. Alberto Becattini previously credited Trimpe with solo inks.

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	2	0	1	2	6	3	1	0	0	0	19
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	2	0	1	3	6	3	1	0	0	0	20

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