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| Sam Glanzman did a very nice job on this comic. I'm pretty sure Joe Gill wrote the adaptation. And odd assortment of fillers round out the issue...you can't fight the cold war if you're a teen-age loafer! |
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| Dick Giordano is credited as inker on this cover. He must have inked the story too, because its not Sam's inking. Not a bad job either. Just about the only instance I know of where someone inked Sam Glantzman. |
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| I was inspired to read this because of Yoko Tani - an extraordinary character whose life would make a great movie in itself. I first saw her in a British B-movie, Piccadilly Third Stop - which is still worth watching today, if only to spot the stars of later years in early roles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0YtdpEX5RM
I was then surprised to find Yoko popping up in some Italian movies when I went through a peplum-loving phase - that included Marco Polo but also the excellent Ursus and the Tartar Princess:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_VaHCMu5LI
If that wasn't enough for one life - she then made some decent Eurospy movies that included The Spy Who Loved Flowers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJeRFnGeO5k
Finally, and most important of all, she was the inspiration behind the Yoko Tsuno comic book which still sells by the shedload today:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Tsuno |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | 1962 | Price: 0.12 USD | Pages: 1 |
| Notes | Nick Caputo suspects that Dick Giordano may have drawn Marco Polo's face. |
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| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Biography; Historical | Characters: Marco Polo |
| Notes | Nick Caputo suspects that Dick Giordano may have drawn Marco Polo's face. |
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| Credits | Pencils:?;? (photograph) | Inks:?;? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Mike Marvel (photo) |
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| Comic Story | Marco Polo (25 pages) |
| Synopsis | A nobleman of Venice found adventure and romance in the court of Kubla Khan. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset | Job #: A-2198 |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Biography; Historical | Characters: Marco Polo; Amuray; Mongka; Ciu-Lin; Cuday; Lukiuk; Kublai Khan |
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| Text Story | The Case of the Third Taxi (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Herman Berg investigates the dreams of Mildred Bowers. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery; Fantasy | Characters: Dr. Herman Berg; Charles Coller; Arthur Ross; Thomas Pearbody; Peter Moshy; Stuart Lanigan; Mildred Bowers; Dave Arkuss; John Ellwood |
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| PSA | What You Do in Spare Time (1 page) |
| Synopsis | How teenagers spend their spare time. |
| Featuring | Your Role in the Cold War |
| Credits | Letters: typeset | Job #: A-1553 |
| Content | Genre: Advocacy | Characters: Jerry |
| Notes | Page was published in various Charlton titles of the period. |
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| Comic Story | Save the Beasts (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | Protecting animals from people. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset | Job #: A-1819 |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Comic Story | Lest We Forget: Theodore Roosevelt (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Biography of Theodore Roosevelt. |
| Featuring | Lest We Forget |
| Credits | Letters: typeset | Job #: A-1578 |
| Content | Genre: Biography; History |
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| Credits | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Ben Rebhuhn (photo); John Sill (photo); William Butler (photo); Jim Norman (photo) |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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