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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published March 1973
Cover Price 0.20 USD
Pages 36
Editing George Wildman
Notes Cover is color photo from movie "1776." At head of title on cover: Columbia Pictures presents Jack L. Warner's Production of.

Cover Details - "1776"

Characters Ben Franklin; Robert Livingston; John Adams; Robert Livingston; Thomas Jefferson; Stephen Hopkins; Lyman Hall; John Hancock; Charles Thomson; Edward Rutledge
Genre Fact; Drama
Pencils ? (photograph)
Inks ? (photograph)
Colors ? (photograph)
Notes Cover is color photo from movie "1776." At head of title on cover: Columbia Pictures presents Jack L. Warner's Production of.

1 page text article "It Was a Great Year!"

Pencils Tony Tallarico
Inks Tony Tallarico
Notes An introduction describing the transfer of the Broadway production of 1776 to the screen.

32 page 1776 story "1776"

Characters Ben Franklin; John Adams; courier; Andrew McNair; Samuel Chase; Abigail Adams; Richard Lee; Lyman Hall; Caesar Rodney; Charles Thomson; Thomas Jefferson; John Dickinson; James Wilson; John Witherspoon; Martha Jefferson
Synopsis Ben Franklin and John Adams convince Thomas Jefferson to write the Declaration of Independence, and then must convince the Continental Congress to vote for it unanimously.
Genre Fact; Drama
Script Joe Gill (adaptation); Sherman Edwards (original play, uncredited); Peter Stone (original play, uncredited)
Pencils Tony Tallarico
Inks Tony Tallarico
Notes An adaptation of the musical film, concentrating on the early dramatic sequences in the film and almost wholly eliminating the musical elements.

1 page filler

Notes Reproduction of the Declaration of Independence.

1 page (backcovers) *do not use* / *please fix* "1776"

Letters typeset
Notes Simplified reproduction of the theatrical movie poster.