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Issue: Four Color #716
Publication Date: August 1956
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Issues: #716 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: Walt Disney's Man in Space
Variant: 10¢ Cover Price
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: DellView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 1956
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 6 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "Walt Disney's MAN IN SPACE, No. 716." Code number is M.I.S. O.S. #716-568. Copyright 1956 by Walt Disney Productions. Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994).
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
Disclose Variants2
Disclose Reprinted In4
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Walt Disney's Man in Space

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (painted)
Inker(s): ? (painted)
Colorist(s): ? (painted)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagDell Giant #27 published January 1960
as Man in Space [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Subtitled "A Science Feature from Tomorrowland".
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[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
First Line: Science fiction gives way to science-factual
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black and white. Text and illustration. The title is a play on "science fiction."
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Walt Disney's Man in Space

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Character(s): Sir Isaac Newton (cameo)
Synopsis: A short history of rockets, then an examination of the problems facing humans if they were in a rocket shot into space. Predictions and descriptions of the building of an orbiting space wheel and the first interplanetary trip around the moon and back are depicted.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagDell Giant #27 published January 1960
as Man and the Moon [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAlmanacco Topolino #66 published June 1962
as L'uomo nello spazio [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 1
In Content Item: FlagAlmanacco Topolino #67 published July 1962
as Viaggio alla Luna [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 2
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 32
Disclose Notes: Panels with typeset narration.
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Rocketeer's Quiz!

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Multiple choice questions about space.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black and white. Illustrations and typeset text. Dell's "A Pledge to Parents" is included in the lower right corner.
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Building Space Station S-1

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (painted)
Inker(s): ? (painted)
Colorist(s): ? (painted)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: The building of an orbiting space station.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover; six paintings with typeset text; The panel 2 painting is also used as the cover to this issue.

Some copies with ad on back cover (see sequence 5).
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Wrigley's Juicy Fruit
First Line: Bill Wisdom says: Your vacation is so short...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum.

Some copies with comic story on back cover (see sequence 4).

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