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Issue: Four Color #662
Publication Date: November 1955
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Issues: #662 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: Zoo Parade
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: DellView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 1955
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 16 (12 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "ZOO PARADE, No. 662." Code number is Z.P.O.S. #662-5511. Copyright 1955 by R. Marlin Perkins. Based on the 1950-57 NBC Show "Zoo Parade" featuring Marlin Perkins, director of the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, and later director of the St. Louis Zoo. Perkins (1905-1986) is best known for his later series "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom."
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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
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (painting); ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (painting); ? (photograph)
Colorist(s): ? (painting); ? (photograph)
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, nature, non-fiction
Feature(s): Marlin Perkins' Zoo Parade
Character(s): Marlin Perkins (photograph)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Zoo and Its Director

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, nature, non-fiction
Synopsis: Facts about the duties of a zoo director.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black and white. Text article with three illustrations.
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The African Lion

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, nature, non-fiction
Feature(s): Marlin Perkins' Zoo Parade
Character(s): Marlin Perkins (cameo)
First Line: This African lion, with his full dark mane...
Synopsis: Facts about African lions, "narrated" by Marlin Perkins.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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The Gorilla

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, nature, non-fiction
Feature(s): Marlin Perkins' Zoo Parade
Character(s): Marlin Perkins (cameo)
Synopsis: Facts about gorillas, "narrated" by Marlin Perkins.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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The African Elephant

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, nature, non-fiction
Feature(s): Marlin Perkins' Zoo Parade
Character(s): Marlin Perkins (cameo)
Synopsis: Facts about African elephants, "narrated" by Marlin Perkins.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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The Echidna

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, nature, non-fiction
Feature(s): Marlin Perkins' Zoo Parade
Character(s): Marlin Perkins (cameo)
Synopsis: Facts about the Australian echidna, "narrated" by Marlin Perkins.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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The Bald Eagle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, nature, non-fiction
Feature(s): Marlin Perkins' Zoo Parade
Character(s): Marlin Perkins (cameo)
Synopsis: Facts about American bald eagles, "narrated" by Marlin Perkins.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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The Canada Goose

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, nature, non-fiction
Feature(s): Marlin Perkins' Zoo Parade
Synopsis: Facts about Canada geese.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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Bird of Paradise

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, nature, non-fiction
Feature(s): Marlin Perkins' Zoo Parade
Character(s): Marlin Perkins (cameo)
Synopsis: Facts about the various species of "birds of paradise" in New Guinea, "narrated" by Marlin Perkins.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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The Albatross

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, nature, non-fiction
Feature(s): Marlin Perkins' Zoo Parade
Synopsis: Facts about the black-footed albatross.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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The Ostrich

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, nature, non-fiction
Feature(s): Marlin Perkins' Zoo Parade
Character(s): Marlin Perkins (cameo)
Synopsis: Facts about the ostrich, "narrated" by Marlin Perkins.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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The Galapagos Tortoise

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, nature, non-fiction
Feature(s): Marlin Perkins' Zoo Parade
Character(s): Marlin Perkins (cameo)
Synopsis: Facts about the Galapagos tortise, "narrated" by Marlin Perkins.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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The Alligator

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, nature, non-fiction
Feature(s): Marlin Perkins' Zoo Parade
Character(s): Marlin Perkins (cameo)
Synopsis: Facts about alligators, "narrated" by Marlin Perkins.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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The Chameleon

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, nature, non-fiction
Feature(s): Marlin Perkins' Zoo Parade
Synopsis: Facts about chameleons.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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Capturing Wild Animals Alive

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, nature, non-fiction
Synopsis: Facts about the procedures for capturing wild animals.
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In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney Comics Digest #32 published December 1971
as Capturing Wild Animals Alive [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black and white. Text with the same three illustrations that appear on the inside front cover.
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Tree of Life

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, nature, non-fiction
Synopsis: A simple "Tree of Life," showing how reptiles, birds, and mammals are related to each other. Most of the animals depicted are those that have features in the comic.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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