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Issue: The World Around Us #23
Publication Date: July 1960
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Issues: #23 of 36 Issues
Title: The Illustrated Story of Great Explorers
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagGilberton
Brand: A Classics Illustrated PublicationView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Gilberton World-Wide Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/09/1960
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 21 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Roberta Strauss Feuerlicht
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1960 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Gerald McCann (painting, signed)
Inker(s): Gerald McCann (painting, signed)
Colorist(s): Gerald McCann (painting, signed)
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): polar explorer
Synopsis: polar explorer with dog sled and team; insets of desert travelers on camels, and Spanish conquistadors
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In Content Item: FlagWorld Illustrated #514 [unnamed variant] published January 1961
as Story of Great Explorers [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Pinocchio; Thumbelina; the Three Bears; the steadfast tin soldier
First Line: The Wonderful World of Fairy Tales
Synopsis: Promo with order form for back issues of Classics Illustrated Junior (H.R.N. 566). Thumbnails of covers from four issues.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Indicia on this page.
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The Illustrated Story of Great Explorers

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Reed Crandall
Inker(s): George Evans
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Native Americans; Spanish conquistadors; French voyageurs; space explorers
Synopsis: Montage of explorers; introductory text on the question, "What lies beyond?"
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In Content Item: FlagWorld Illustrated #514 [unnamed variant] published January 1961
as The Illustrated Story of Great Explorers [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Artist credit verified by Roger Hill
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Passage to the Indies

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Reed Crandall
Inker(s): George Evans
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Vasco da Gama; Bartholomeu Diaz; Portuguese mariners
Synopsis: Using ships built by Diaz, da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope and initiates direct European trade with India.
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In Content Item: FlagWorld Illustrated #514 [unnamed variant] published January 1961
as Passage to the Indies [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Artist credit verified by Roger Hill.

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The Land of El Dorado

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gray Morrow
Inker(s): Gray Morrow
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Francisco de Orellana; Friar Gaspar de Carvajal; Native Americans
Synopsis: Orellana and his men cross South America, including a descent of the Amazon.
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In Content Item: FlagWorld Illustrated #514 [unnamed variant] published January 1961
as The Land of El Dorado [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Artist credit verified by Roger Hill
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A Storm of Peace

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Synopsis: Tropical cyclones and hurricanes in history
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Pages: 1
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Famous Explorers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ernie Hart ?
Inker(s): Ernie Hart ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Eric the Red; Christopher Columbus; Ferdinand Magellan
Synopsis: Short biographies and speculative illustrations of three explorers
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In Content Item: FlagWorld Illustrated #514 [unnamed variant] published January 1961
as Famous Explorers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Art identification by Saltarella.
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The Mysterious Continent

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gerald McCann
Inker(s): Gerald McCann
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Captain James Cook; Nicholas Young; Chief Tupia
Synopsis: Captain Cook undertakes three voyages of exploration throughout the Pacific, but fails to find Australia.
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In Content Item: FlagWorld Illustrated #514 [unnamed variant] published January 1961
as The Mysterious Continent [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Artist credit verified by Roger Hill
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Emmeline Went Marching

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Emmeline Pankhurst
Synopsis: Emmeline Pankhurst conducts an aggressive, and ultimately successful, campaign for women's suffrage.
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Pages: 1
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Famous Explorers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ernie Hart ?
Inker(s): Ernie Hart ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Robert Falcon Scott; Roald Amundsen; Richard Evelyn Byrd
Synopsis: Short biographies and illustrations of three explorers.
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In Content Item: FlagWorld Illustrated #514 [unnamed variant] published January 1961
as Famous Explorers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Art identification by Saltarella.
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The Great Wilderness

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Tartaglione
Inker(s): John Tartaglione
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Alexander MacKenzie
Synopsis: Alexander MacKenzie, representing the Northwest Company, makes the first crossing of North America by Europeans.
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In Content Item: FlagWorld Illustrated #514 [unnamed variant] published January 1961
as The Great Wilderness [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Art identification by Saltarella.
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The Pathmarker

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Evans
Inker(s): George Evans
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction, western
Character(s): John C. Fremont; Kit Carson; Charles Preuss; Lucien Maxwell
Synopsis: Guided by Kit Carson, Fremont explores and maps a route through the Rockies to Oregon country.
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Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Art identification by Saltarella.
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Famous Explorers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ernie Hart ?
Inker(s): Ernie Hart ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Jacques Cartier; Vitus Bering; Edward Parry
Synopsis: Short biographies and illustrations of three Arctic explorers
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In Content Item: FlagWorld Illustrated #514 [unnamed variant] published January 1961
as Famous Explorers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Art identification by Saltarella.
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The Mine of Death

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction, western
Character(s): Jacob Waltz
Synopsis: Story of the Lost Dutchman Mine
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Pages: 1
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To the North Pole

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Norman Nodel ?
Inker(s): Norman Nodel ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Robert E. Peary; Matthew Henson; Ooqueah; Ootah; Seegloo; Egingwah
Synopsis: Peary and his men are the first to reach the North Pole.
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In Content Item: FlagWorld Illustrated #514 [unnamed variant] published January 1961
as To the North Pole [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Art identification by Saltarella.
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Famous Explorers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ernie Hart ?
Inker(s): Ernie Hart ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Vivian Fuchs; Thor Heyerdahl; Maurice Herzog
Synopsis: Short biographies, with illustrations, of three explorers.
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In Content Item: FlagWorld Illustrated #514 [unnamed variant] published January 1961
as Famous Explorers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Art identification by Saltarella.
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The Duel

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Aaron Burr; Alexander Hamilton
Synopsis: Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton conduct a long and bitter political conflict, culminating in the duel in which Burr kills Hamilton.
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The Roof of the World

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gerald McCann
Inker(s): Gerald McCann
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Edmund Hillary; Bhotia Tenzing Norkey
Synopsis: As part of a larger expedition, Hillary and Tenzing make the first ascent on Mount Everest.
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In Content Item: FlagWorld Illustrated #514 [unnamed variant] published January 1961
as The Roof of the World [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7.66
Disclose Notes: Artist credit verified by Roger Hill
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[untitled]

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
First Line: We hope you enjoyed this issue.
Synopsis: Suggested reading
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In Content Item: FlagWorld Illustrated #514 [unnamed variant] published January 1961
as We Hope You Enjoyed This Issue [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 0.34
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Read the best in the world's finest juvenile publication
Synopsis: Promo with order form (H.R.N. 156) for back issues of Classics Illustrated.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Thumbnail of cover to # 149, Off on a Comet
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Subscribe now! Today!
Synopsis: Promo, with order form, for subscriptions to The World Around Us
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Thumbails of four covers, most partly hidden

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