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Issue: Four Color #239
Publication Date: August 1949
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Issues: #239 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: Adventure Bound
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: A Dell ComicView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co.
On Sale Date: 06/28/1949
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 5 (1 story, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "ADVENTURE BOUND, No. 239." Code number is A.B.O.S. #239-498. Copyright 1949 by Western Printing & Lithographing Co. On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1949 Pamphlets, page 660.
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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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Adventure Bound

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, historical
Character(s): Paul Clark; Nat Clark; Maria Rosaria
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Pages: 1
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Piracy

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, informational, non-fiction
Synopsis: Facts about pirates.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black and white. Text and illustrations.
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Adventure Bound

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Paul Clark; Nat Clark; Maria Rosaria
Synopsis: Boston, 1723. Paul Clark runs away to sea aboard The Boston Belle. His 8-year old brother, Nat, has followed, and stows away. Maria is a passenger who travels to join her father, the governor of Trinidad Island. Paul is wounded defending her from the Pirate captain, Redbeard, who loots the ship, and takes them hostage. Paul walks the plank, but Maria and Nat throw him a rope, and pull him back aboard through their cabin window. Eventually the pirate ship explodes. Paul, Nat and Maria, who had escaped shortly before this, are rescued by a Spanish ship.
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Pages: 32
Disclose Notes: This comic is presented with no word balloons. The story is told with borderless panels, and captions, including dialogue in quotation marks, like the Prince Valiant comic strip.
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Captain John Avery

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, informational, non-fiction
Character(s): Capt. John Avery [Long Ben; Archpirate]
Synopsis: Facts about Captain John Avery, a pirate in the 17th Century.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black and white. Text and illustrations.
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Blackbeard

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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, informational, non-fiction
Character(s): Blackbeard [Edward Teach]
Synopsis: Facts about the life of Blackbeard the Pirate.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Text and illustration.

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