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Issue: The World Around Us #10
Publication Date: June 1959
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Issues: #10 of 36 Issues
Title: The Illustrated Story of the Navy
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Publisher: FlagGilberton
Brand: A Classics Illustrated PublicationView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Gilberton World-Wide Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/06/1959
Volume: none
Pages: 84
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
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Content Items: 21 (15 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: full color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: newsprint interior; glossy cover
Binding: squarebound
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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The Illustrated Story of the Navy

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Genres: military
Synopsis: jet airplane taking off from aircraft carrier
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Character(s): Moses; the three Magi; Theodore Roosevelt; rocket base personnel; American frontier fighters; American Indian
First Line: Special introductory offer
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Disclose Notes: House ad, with order coupon, for back numbers of Classics Illustrated Special Issues; includes thumbnails of five covers.
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The Illustrated Story of the Navy

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: military, non-fiction
Character(s): Naval gunners
Synopsis: Naval gunners firing weapons
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The First Hero

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: biography, military, non-fiction
Character(s): John Paul Jones; Benjamin Franklin; mutineer; American sailors; British captain of the Serapis
Synopsis: John Paul Jones rises to captain in a seafaring career, then joins the infant America navy. Through a series of brilliant single-ship actions, he becomes that service's first great hero.
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The First Fleet

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Genres: non-fiction, war
Character(s): Esek Hopkins
Synopsis: Congress orders the first naval vessels for the Revolutionary War, the war with the Barbary Pirates, and the War of 1812.
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They Shall Fight Today

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Genres: non-fiction, war
Character(s): Oliver Hazard Perry
Synopsis: Oliver Hazard Perry fights and wins the Battle of Lake Erie, sinking or capturing the opposing British fleet.
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A Bet Is Paid

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Genres: non-fiction, war
Character(s): Isaac Hull; Sir James Richard Dacres
Synopsis: Friends in peacetime, Captains Dacres ("Guerriere") and Hull ("Constitution") bet a hat as to which ship would win in a battle. When they meet in the War of 1812 Hull wins decisively, and takes his opponent's hat, rather than his sword, in surrender.
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Learning to Lead

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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): David Glasgow Farragut; Philip Spencer
Synopsis: Farragut rises to high rank without an education, but succeeding generations of officers need more. Shocked by an attempted mutiny, Congress establishes the US Naval Academy.
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Fighting Words

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Genres: non-fiction, war
Character(s): James Lawrence; Donald Francis Mason
Synopsis: Lawrence ("Don't give up the ship") and Mason ("Sighted sub, sank same") coin phrases that live in naval tradition.
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The Navy in War: An Impossible Task

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Genres: non-fiction, war
Character(s): David Glasgow Farragut
Synopsis: Farragut fights his ships past forts and flotillas to capture New Orleans.
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The Navy in War: Battle After Breakfast

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Genres: non-fiction, war
Character(s): George Dewey
Synopsis: Dewey decisively wins the Battle of Manila Bay against a Spanish fleet.
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The Navy in War: The Unseen Enemy

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Genres: non-fiction, war
Character(s): American naval personnel; British naval officers; German u-boat officers
Synopsis: The American and British navies work out weapons and tactics to defeat the German u-boat campaign in World War I.
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The Navy in War: Full Speed Ahead!

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Genres: non-fiction, war
Character(s): Dan Callaghan
Synopsis: The US and Japanese navies fight each other hard around Tulagi, Savo, and Guadalcanal. Admiral Dan Callaghan wins a major victory after ordering full speed toward the enemy.
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The Navy in War: The Wonderful Blunder

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Genres: non-fiction, war
Character(s): American naval officers
Synopsis: Six destroyers expose themselves to shellfire in the narrow channel of Inchon, thereby discovering the position of North Korean batteries.
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Cheese-Box on a Barrelhead

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Genres: non-fiction, war
Character(s): John Worden; Dana Green; H. Ashton Ramsay
Synopsis: Three participants describe the battle between "Monitor" and "Merrimack" (or "Virginia")
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The Navy in Peace

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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Charles Wilkes; Robert E. Peary; Richard E. Byrd
Synopsis: The navy's many peacetime functions include exploration. Wilkes, Peary, and Byrd conduct polar expeditions over a period of a hundred years.
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The Fleet Below

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Genres: non-fiction, war
Character(s): David Bushnell; Robert Fulton; Confederate naval personnel; John P. Holland; William Anderson
Synopsis: Development of submarines from the American Revolution through the nuclear-powered "Nautilus," which made the first submerged journey through the Arctic Ocean and under the North Pole.
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The Good Old Days

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Genres: humorous, non-fiction
Synopsis: Humorous comparison of naval life in 1778 and 1958.
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Mission to Mindanao

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Genres: non-fiction, war
Character(s): John Bulkeley; Douglas MacArthur
Synopsis: Bulkeley commands his PT Boat and squadron in action against the Japanese in the Philippine Islands. In 1942 he commands four boats evacuating General MacArthur.
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Character(s): Pinocchio; Gepetto; Thumbelina; the Three Bears; the Steadfast Tin Soldier
First Line: The Wonderful World of Fairy Tales
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Disclose Notes: House ad, with order coupon, for back issues of Classics Illustrated Junior (up to H.R.N. 557); includes thumbnails of four covers, three partly hidden.
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Character(s): Julius Caesar
First Line: Read the best in the world's finest juvenile publication
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Disclose Notes: House ad, with order coupon, for back issues of Classics Illustrated (up to H.R.N. 150); includes thumbnail of cover to #130 (Caesar's Conquests).

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