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Issue Details

Issue #1213
Published January 1962
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "Jules Verne's MYSTERIOUS ISLAND, No. 1213." Code number is M. ISLAND #1213-621. Copyright 1961 by Columbia Pictures Corporation. Adapted from the 1961 movie "Mysterious Island."

Cover Details - "Mysterious Island"

Genre science fiction; period
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Colors ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Labeled "Movie Classic" on cover.

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Mysterious Island"

Characters Neb Nugent (as played by Dan Jackson, photo)
Synopsis Preview of the story.
Genre science fiction; period
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Five photos from the movie with typeset text. Most characters are not identifiable in the photos, which are mainly long shots.

32 page story "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.
Genre science fiction; period
Script Jules Verne (original story); John Prebble; Daniel B. Ullman; Crane Wilbur (screenplay); ? (comic adaptation)
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Herb Trimpe
Notes Adapted from the 1961 movie "Mysterious Island," based on the novel by Jules Verne. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Herb Trimpe ink credit also in Who's Who's of American Comic Books 1928-1999 website.

1 page filler "Balloons At War"

Synopsis The use of hot air balloons in war.
Genre fact
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Herb Trimpe
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page filler "Mysterious Island"

Synopsis Preview of the story.
Genre science fiction; period
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Colors ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover. Three photos from the movie in monochrome and black and white plus typeset text.