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Issue: Walt Disney's the Sword in the Stone #[nn]
Publication Date: February 1964
 
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Issues: #[nn] of 1 Issue
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagWestern
Brand: Gold KeyView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: K. K. Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/07/1963
Volume:
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 CAD
$0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Cover code: 30019-402. Adaptation of Walt Disney cartoon movie.

Movie adaptation. Movie and comic released December 1963. Date from cover code; copyright date is listed as December 1963.

On-sale date from the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Books and Pamphlets, January-June 1964.

Listed in The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide under the umbrella title MOVIE COMICS, but listed here under its indicia title.

Printed in the U.S.A. by Western Printing & Lithographing Co.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: cardstock cover; newsprint interior
Binding: squarebound
Publishing Format: one-shot
Format Notes:  
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The Sword in the Stone

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): photos (movie stills)
Inker(s): photos (movie stills)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Wart [young King Arthur]; Madam Mim; Merlin; Archimedes (an owl); Sir Ector; Pellinore
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney presenterer Sverdet i stenen #[nn] published January 1965
as Sverdet i stenen [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Klassikere #[10] published April 1976
as Sverdet i stenen [Illustration on Cover, Front]edited reprint
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: 30019-402
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[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photo, movie stills)
Inker(s): ? (photo, movie stills)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Wart [young King Arthur]; Merlin; Achimedes; Sir Ector; Sir Kay; Madam Mim
First Line: In The Sword in the Stone you'll meet...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Six movie stills with text.
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Chapter 1

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Wart [young King Arthur]; Merlin; Archimedes; Sir Kay
First Line: Long years ago when England was young, and knights were brave and bold, a good king had died... no one could decide who was rightful heir to the throne.
Synopsis: Wart gets lost in the woods and stumbles upon the house of Merlin, who decides that Wart needs educating.
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In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney presenterer Sverdet i stenen #[nn] published January 1965
as Sverdet i stenen [Story on Interior Page(s)]edited reprint
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 17
Job Number: 1-6311
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Chapter 2 News of the Tournament

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Wart; Arthur; Pellinore; Sir Kay; Sir Ector; Archimedes
First Line: Dash it!
Synopsis: Merlin magically bullies Sir Ector into permitting an education for Wart. At news of a tournament to award the vacant throne, Ector decrees that Kay shall train for it, with Wart as his squire.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Credits for script and pencils first provided by Karl Wilcox, February 2008. Confirmed by Alberto Becattini, January 2011.
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Chapter 3 Wart Becomes a Fish

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Wart; Merlin; pike; Sur Ector
First Line: Let me see if I can remember the fish formula!
Synopsis: Merlin changes Wart to a fish for educational purposes, but the boy barely survives the experience.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Credits for script and pencils first provided by Karl Wilcox, February 2008. Confirmed by Alberto Becattini, January 2011.
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Chapter 4 Living the Life of a Squirrel

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Wart [Arthur]; Merlin; squirrels; Sir Kay; Sir Ector; cook
First Line: Well, boy, how does it feel to be a squirrel?
Synopsis: Enchanting the kitchen to clean itself, Merlin teaches Wart by changing him to a squirrel. Chaos ensues, and Ector demotes Wart from being Kay's squire.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Credits for script and pencils first provided by Karl Wilcox, February 2008. Confirmed by Alberto Becattini, January 2011.
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Chapter 5 The Education of Wart

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Wart [Arthur]; Merlin; Archimedes; Madam Mim
First Line: Now, first of all, lad, we've got to get these medieval ideas out of your head!
Synopsis: Merlin changes Wart to a bird, but he's trapped by Madam Mim until Merlin arrives to rescue him.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Credits for script and pencils first provided by Karl Wilcox, February 2008. Confirmed by Alberto Becattini, January 2011.
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Chapter 6 The Wizards' Duel

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Wart [Arthur]; Archimedes; Merlin; Madam Mim
First Line: Archimedes! What's going to happen?
Synopsis: Merlin saves Wart by defeating Mim in a duel of transformations.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Credits for script and pencils first provided by Karl Wilcox, February 2008. Confirmed by Alberto Becattini, January 2011.
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Chapter 7 A Miracle Happens

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Wart; Arthur; Archimedes; Merlin; Sir Kay; Sir Ector; Pellinore; knights
First Line: Here's to victory in London for my son, Kay!
Synopsis: At the tournament, an unwitting Wart draws the sword from the stone. When he repeats the feat, and no one else is able to match it, he's declared rightwise king born of England. Merlin promises to help him rule, and to form the Round Table.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: Credits for script and pencils first provided by Karl Wilcox, February 2008. Confirmed by Alberto Becattini, January 2011.
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Scenes from Walt Disney's Motion Picture The Sword in the Stone

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photo, movie stills)
Inker(s): ? (photo, movie stills)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Wart [young King Arthur]; Archimedes; Merlin
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover. Six movie stills with text.
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The Sword in the Stone Pin-up

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photo, movie still)
Inker(s): ? (photo, movie still)
Colorist(s): ? (photo, movie still)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Wart [young King Arthur]; Merlin; Archimedes; Sir Ector; Pellinore
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Part of front cover (upper left) with solid color borders.

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