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Issue: Four Color #1286
Publication Date: February 1962
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Issues: #1286 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: The Untouchables
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: Dell [stamp]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/07/1961
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 7 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "The Untouchables, No. 1286." Code number is UNTOUCHABLES O.S. #1286-621. Copyright 1961 by Desilu Productions, Inc. and Langford Productions, Inc. Second of two Untouchables Four Colors. Based on the 1959-63 TV series "The Untouchables." On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date. Continues as The Untouchables #01-879-207 (May-July 1962).
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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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The Man Who Played Dead

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Colorist(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, historical
Feature(s): The Untouchables
Character(s): Eliot Ness (photo of Robert Stack)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Contents

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, historical
Feature(s): The Untouchables
Character(s): Eliot Ness (photo of Robert Stack)
Synopsis: Previews of the two stories in the issue.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black and white. Photo of Robert Stack and four panels reprinted from the stories with typeset text underneath. Pencils and inks credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (July 3, 2007).
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The Man Who Played Dead

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, historical
Feature(s): The Untouchables
Character(s): Eliot Ness; Lee Hobson; Rico Rossi; William Goodfellow; Frank Nitti (villain)
Synopsis: Eliot Ness and his men investigate rumors that mobster Gagger Garth, believed drowned in a boating accident, is alive and engaging in a gang war with mob boss Frank Nitti.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 16
Disclose Notes: Pencils and inks credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (July 3, 2007).
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The Hunter and the Hunted

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, historical
Feature(s): The Untouchables
Character(s): Eliot Ness; Lee Hobson; Rico Rossi; William Goodfellow; Frank Nitti (villain); Boy Mason (villain)
Synopsis: Professional killer Boy Mason, who has left a string of deaths in his wake, always with an iron-clad alibi, is in Chicago and Eliot Ness and his men have to find out who his target will be.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
Disclose Notes: Pencils and inks credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (July 3, 2007).
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A School for Policemen

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): The Untouchables
Synopsis: Description of the training beginning agents undergo at the FBI National Academy.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Panels with typeset text underneath. The "Untouchables" logo appears, but there is no connection to the series. Pencils and inks credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (July 3, 2007).
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Fugitives

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): The Untouchables
Synopsis: A description of how the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" list is determined.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text underneath. The "Untouchables" logo appears, but there is no connection to the series.
Pencils and inks credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (July 3, 2007).
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Basic Requirements

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): The Untouchables
Synopsis: Description of the requirements for becoming a member of the modern day Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Panels with typeset text underneath. The "Untouchables" logo appears, but there is no connection to the series. Pencils and inks credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (July 3, 2007).

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