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Issue Details

Issue #1118
Published June 1960
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "THE SWORD AND THE DRAGON, No. 1118." Code number is S+DRAG. O.S. #118-606. Copyright 1960 by Vita-lite Film Corp. Adapted from the 1960 movie "The Sword and the Dragon."

Cover Details - "The Sword and The Dragon"

Characters Ilya Muromets (as played by Boris Andreyev, photos)
Genre fantasy
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Indicia title is "THE SWORD AND THE DRAGON, No. 1118." Code number is S+DRAG. O.S. #118-606. Copyright 1960 by Vita-lite Film Corp. Adapted from the 1960 movie "The Sword and the Dragon."

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "The Sword and the Dragon"

Characters Ilya Muromets (as played by Boris Andreyev, photos); Chief Kalin (as played by Shukur Burkhanov, photo)
Synopsis Preview of the story.
Genre fantasy
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 Sword and The Dragon!"

Characters Ilya Muromets; Vilia; Prince Vanda; Invinsor; Alexi; Durbar; Little Falcon; Chief Kalin (villain)
Synopsis Ilya Muromets is given a magic sword and leads his people in battle against Chief Kalin and the invading Tugars, who possess a three-headed dragon.
Genre fantasy
Script Michail Kochnev (screenplay); ? (comic adaptation)
Pencils Jack Sparling
Inks Jack Sparling
Notes The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Adapted from the 1960 movie "The Sword and the Dragon." (Exclamation point is only on the title of this sequence.) The movie was originally released in the Soviet Union in 1956 under the title "Ilya Muromets."

1 page filler "Legendary Slavic Heroes"

Characters Baldak; Nodey; Alyosha Popovkin; Prince Ivan; Elena the Fair; Bogatyr
Synopsis One-panel overviews of heroes of Slavic legends.
Genre fact
Pencils Jack Sparling
Inks Jack Sparling
Letters Ben Oda
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Letters credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page filler "The Sword and the Dragon"

Characters Ilya Muromets (as played by Boris Andreyev, photo); Chief Kalin (as played by Shukur Burkhanov, photo)
Synopsis Preview of the story.
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Colors ?
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover. Two black and white photos from the movie, one with a blue monochrome overlay. This sequence may be replaced by an ad in some copies.