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Issue Details

Issue #1117
Published June 1960
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Labeled Movie Classic on cover. Indicia title is "THE BOY AND THE PIRATES, No. 1117." Code number is B.+P.O.S. #117-606. Copyright 1960 by Bert I. Gordon Productions, Inc. Adapted from the 1960 movie "The Boy and the Pirates."

Cover Details - "The Boy and the Pirates"

Characters Jimmy Warren (as played by Charles Herbert, photo); Blackbeard the Pirate (as played by Murvyn Vye, photo)
Genre adventure; fantasy
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Labeled Movie Classic on cover. Indicia title is "THE BOY AND THE PIRATES, No. 1117." Code number is B.+P.O.S. #117-606. Copyright 1960 by Bert I. Gordon Productions, Inc. Adapted from the 1960 movie "The Boy and the Pirates."

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "The Boy and the Pirates"

Characters Jimmy Warren (as played by Charles Herbert, photo); Blackbeard the Pirate (as played by Murvyn Vye, photo); Abu the Genie (as played by Joe Turkel, photo)
Synopsis Preview of the story.
Genre fantasy; adventure
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Five photos from the movie plus a partial cast list.

32 page story "The Boy and the Pirates"

Characters Jimmy Warren; Kathy Van Kief; Blackbeard the Pirate; Abu the Genie
Synopsis A boy is magically transported back in time to the ship of Blackbeard the Pirate by a bottle imp. The boy must return the bottle to the exact spot in seven days or take the imp's place inside it.
Genre adventure; fantasy
Script Bert I. Gordon (movie story); ? (comic adaptation)
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill
Notes Adapted from the 1960 movie "The Boy and the Pirates." Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page filler "Pirates of New England"

Characters Capt. John Phillips; Bartholomew Roberts; Capt. Henry Johnson; Blackbeard
Synopsis A review of the pirates that operated off the coast of New England in the 18th Century.
Genre fact
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page filler "The Boy and the Pirates"

Characters Jimmy Warren (as played by Charles Herbert, photo); Blackbeard the Pirate (as played by Murvyn Vye, photo); Abu the Genie (as played by Joe Turkel, photo)
Synopsis Preview of the story.
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Colors ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover. Three black and white photos from the movie, with monochrome overlays.