COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Four Color 1230
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Grade:
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7.0
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE
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File Copy
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Certification #:
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0226965020
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Owner:
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4GEMWORKS
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea-Movie Classic 1961 File Copy Adapted from the 1961 movie "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea."
"Movie Classic" on cover.
Painted Cover: Artist unidentified
Pencils: Sam Glanzman
Inks: Sam Glanzman
Table of Contents
1. 0. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
2. 1. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
3. 2. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
4. 3. History of Submarines
5. 4. Out of the Deep
Cartoon back cover..AD back may bot exist for this edition.
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/16658/
Wikipedia also has many interesting offshoots of info from the movie:
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is an American science fiction film, produced and directed by Irwin Allen, released by 20th Century Fox in 1961. The story was written by Irwin Allen and Charles Bennett. Walter Pidgeon starred as Admiral Harriman Nelson, with Robert Sterling as Captain Lee Crane. The supporting cast included Joan Fontaine, Barbara Eden, Michael Ansara, and Peter Lorre. The theme song was sung by Frankie Avalon, who also appeared in the film…
The film's submarine design is unique in that it features an eight-window bow viewport that provides panoramic undersea views. In the novel of the film by Theodore Sturgeon, the windows are described as "... oversized hull plates which happen to be transparent." They are made of "X-tempered herculite", a process developed by Nelson.[8] In the film, Seaview's bow has eight windows in the exterior shots, but only four windows appear to be seen in the interior shots of the Observation Room (the four upper windows were implied to be out of frame, at the top of the observation room). The bow also has a shark-like bottom flare, and the stern has 1961 Cadillac tail-fins, the "Cadillac" of submarines. In the film, the USOS Seaview (United States Oceanographic Survey) is under the authority of Nelson and the Bureau of Marine Exploration rather that the U.S. Navy. The novel mentions the bureau as being part of the U.S. Department of Science.
Reception[edit]
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was released to movie theaters in early July 1961 and had run its course by late fall (September/October). The film played to mixed reviews from critics, but audiences made it a success. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was made for US$2 million and brought in US$7 million in box office revenue.
Impact[edit]
For the filming of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, a number of detailed sets, props and scale models were created to realize the Seaview submarine. After the film was finished the sets were simply placed in storage. When Irwin Allen decided to make a Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea television series, all he had to do was pull the sets out of storage. This was done at a fraction of the cost that he might have had if he had been beginning from scratch. The film reduced the cost of setting up the show and was the template for the type of stories that were done. The studios, having made the film, helped make the television series easier to produce.
The success of the television series encouraged Irwin Allen to produce other science fiction television shows. The most notable of these shows were Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel, and Land of the Giants.[citation …
In 1961 Dell Comics created a full color adaptation of the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea movie. The comic was Four Color Comics #1230. The comic book has a few publicity stills of the movie plus a section on the history of submarines. In the comic book the Admiral's first name is Farragut instead of Harriman. There was also a "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" coloring book released in the mid-1960s.
MAD Magazine published a parody based on the TV series in one of their monthly issues entitled, "Voyage to See What's on the Bottom".
The movie poster shown at the top of this article is one of four posters that were made to promote the film. Each has different wording and slightly different drawings. Each poster promotes the movie from a different perspective. The poster shown also promotes Sturgeon's book.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_to_the_bottom_of_the_sea
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