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Issue Details

Issue #440
Published December 1952
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "THE FAMOUS HORSE CLASSIC, BLACK BEAUTY, No. 440." Code number is B.BEAUTY O.S. #440-5212. Copyright 1952 by Western Printing & Lithographing Co. Adapted from the 1877 novel "Black Beauty" by Anna Sewell.

Cover Details - "The Famous Horse Classic"

Characters Black Beauty
Genre animal; period
Pencils Morris Gollub (painting)
Inks Morris Gollub (painting)
Colors Morris Gollub (painting)
Notes Cover art credits from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

35 page story "Black Beauty"

Characters Black Beauty
Synopsis Adventures of the horse Black Beauty in the 19th Century, who is owned by a variety of owners, ranging from kind to cruel.
Genre animal; period
Pencils Morris Gollub
Inks Morris Gollub
Letters ?; typeset
Notes The story starts on the inside front cover in text and three black and white illustrations, continues directly into 33 pages of comic panel story (ending on the inside back cover in black and white), then concludes with a page of text and three color illustrations on the back cover. Adapted from the 1877 novel "Black Beauty" by Anna Sewell. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)