COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Four Color 1145 Universal
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Grade:
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9.6
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
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Certification #:
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0975763015
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Owner:
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4GEMWORKS
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
The Lost World-Movie Classic 11/60-1/61 File Copy Adapted from the 1960 movie "The Lost World." "Movie Classic" on cover.
Photo Cover: Professor Challenger (photo of Claude Rains); Ed Malone (photo of David Hedison); Lord John Roxton (photo of Michael Rennie); Jennifer Holmes (photo of Jill St. John); Professor Summerlee (photo of Richard Haydn)
Script:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (original novel); Irwin Allen; Charles Bennett (screenplay); Paul S. Newman (comic adaptation)
Pencils: Gil Kane and Oscar Novelle
Inks: Mike Peppe and Oscar Novelle
Table of Contents
1. 0. The Lost World
2. 1. The Lost World
3. 2. The Lost World
4. 3. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
5. 4. The Galapagos Islands
This issue has a cartoon strip on the back cover. I am unaware as to whether an AD back variation exists.
Some data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license. http://www.comics.org/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
http://www.comics.org/issue/15964/
Wikipedia offers some additional insite regarding the movie that the comic was based on:
The Lost World is a 1960 fantasy adventure film loosely based on the novel of the same name by Arthur Conan Doyle and directed by Irwin Allen. The plot of the film revolves around the exploration of a mysterious flat mountain (see Tepui) in the heart of unknown Venezuela inhabited by cannibalistic natives, dinosaurs, carnivorous plants, and giant spiders. The cast includes Claude Rains, David Hedison, Fernando Lamas, Jill St. John, and Michael Rennie.
Special effects for the film were rather simple and involved monitor lizards, iguanas, and crocodiles affixed with miniature horns and fins. Director Allen later stated that though he wanted stop motion models, he could only work with lizards and live creatures in accordance with the studio's budget. This technique has been given the nickname slurpasaur by fans. Though it received mixed reviews in its day, the film got constant runs on TV and Cable and is liked as one of Irwin Allen's earliest excursions into science fiction films and TV shows. Later he did make the jump to other sci-fi numbers (mostly on TV) while Doyle's tale got remade for TV and Video.
Plot: The boisterous, arrogant Professor Challenger (Claude Rains), a reputed biologist and anthropologist, dares the London Zoological Society to mount an expedition to verify his spectacular claim, without physical proof, that his previous expedition to the Amazon Basin found live dinosaurs. Apart from him and his 'socialite' counterpart, Professor Summerlee (Richard Haydn), the adventurous party consists of experienced discoverer Lord Roxton (Michael Rennie), the young reporter Ed Malone (David Hedison) - who got publicly struck down with Challenger's umbrella at his arrival - and Jennifer Holmes (Jill St. John), Malone's news agency's boss's daughter, who is allowed by her father to come essentially as one of the conditions for putting up the money. In Brazil they are joined by Jennifer's brother David (Ray Stricklyn) and local 'guide' Manuel Gomez (Fernando Lamas). They arrive by air, soon discover the dinosaurs and other creatures are real and dangerous ( their helicopter is incidentally destroyed by fighting dinosaurs), and the party is desperate to get off the isolated plateau. They learn Roxton knew about the fate of Burton White, an explorer whose diary they find, search for diamonds, and confirm that the local tribesmen are lethal guardians of the plateau's secrets. Additionally they learn Roxton accidentally killed Gomez' brother on a separate trip before this one, leaving Gomez hungry for revenge. During a volcanic eruption, they manage to escape from the plateau, carrying a Tyrannosaurus rex egg with them. The egg hatches when it is dropped by accident, and Professor Challenger resolves to take the infant dinosaur (here represented by a cosmetically altered gecko lizard) back to London with them.
Legacy[edit]
Irwin Allen utilized stock footage from this film for episodes of his various TV series, including Land of the Giants, Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel, and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. In 1966, Irwin Allen even tried to sell a TV series based on the film as he had done with Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea but was unsuccessful.[3] Stock footage was also used in the 1970 movie When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_World_(1960_film)
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