COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Four Color 1085
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Grade:
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9.0
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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0212104002
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Owner:
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4GEMWORKS
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
H.G. Wells’ :: The Time Machine-Movie Classic 3/60
Photo Cover: Rod Taylor
Interior Art: Alex Toth
Table of Contents
1. 0. The Time Machine
The Time Machine
2. 1. [no title indexed]
The Time Machine
This copy has a Daisy air rifle AD on the back cover. A cartoon back also existed and was certainly an improvement for this great issue.
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http://www.comics.org/issue/15898/
Wikipedia has additional info on the movie the comic was based on:
The Time Machine – also known promotionally as H.G. Wells' The Time Machine – is a 1960 science fiction film based on the 1895 novel of the same name by H. G. Wells in which a man from Victorian England constructs a time-travelling machine which he uses to travel to the future. The film stars Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux and Alan Young.
The film was produced and directed by George Pal, who had earlier made a film version of Wells's The War of the Worlds (1953). Pal always intended to make a sequel to The Time Machine, but he died before it could be produced; the end of Time Machine: The Journey Back functions as a sequel of sorts. In 1985, elements of this film were incorporated into The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal, produced by Arnold Leibovit.
The film received an Oscar for time-lapse photographic effects showing the world changing rapidly…
… Production[edit]
George Pal was already known for pioneering work with animation. He was nominated for an Oscar almost yearly during the 1940s. Unable to sell Hollywood the screenplay, he found the British MGM studio (where he had filmed Tom Thumb) friendlier.
Pal originally considered casting a middle-aged British actor in the lead role, such as David Niven or James Mason. He later changed his mind and selected the younger Australian actor Rod Taylor to give the character a more athletic, idealistic dimension. It was Taylor's first lead role in a feature film.[4]
MGM art director Bill Ferrari created the Machine, a sled-like design with a big, rotating vertical wheel behind the seat. The live action scenes were filmed from May 25, 1959 to June 30, 1959, in Culver City, California.
Box Office[edit]
According to MGM records the film earned $1,610,000 in the United States and Canada and $1 million elsewhere, turning a profit of $245,000.[1]
Awards and honors[edit]
• Academy Award for Best Effects, Special Effects winner (1961) - Gene Warren and Tim Baar
• Hugo Award nomination (1961)
• AFI's 10 Top 10 - Nominated Science Fiction Film[5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Machine_(1960_film)
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