4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 716

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #716 Universal
Grade: 9.4
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE
Pedigree: File Copy
Certification #: 0914846013
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 8/27/2011
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Walt Disney's Man in Space. 8/56 File Copy. Painted Cover. Don Christensen, writer with Tony Sgroi, penciler and inker.

Current;y tied with one other copy for second best out of thirteen issues graded to date. (4/12)

Stories Include:

(This comic reprinted in Dell Giant Giant #27)

1. Science-Factual (foreword inside front cover)

2. Man in Space (factual)

3. Rocketeer's Quiz (quiz inside back cover)

4. Building Space Station S-1 (on back cover)

Interesting information:

Man in Space


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Man in Space is an episode of Disneyland which originally aired on March 9, 1955. It was directed by Disney animator Ward Kimball. Later, it was edited into a featurette to play in theaters, accompanying Davy Crockett and the River Pirates. This Disneyland episode (set in Tomorrowland), was narrated partly by Kimball and also by such famed scientists as Dr. Willy Ley, Dr. Heinz Haber, Dr. Wernher von Braun and Dick Tufeld of Lost in Space fame. The show talks briefly about the lighthearted history of rockets and is followed by discussions of satellites, a practical look (through humorous animation) at what spacemen will have to face in a rocket (both physically and psychologically, such as momentum, weightlessness, radiation, even space sickness) and a rocket takeoff into space.

An adaptation of the episode was published (under the title Walt Disney's Man in Space: A Science Feature from Tomorrowland) by Dell as Four Color #716 in 1956, scripted by Don R. Christensen with art by Tony Sgroi.[1] It was actually a "novelization" in comic book form of 2 Walt Disney television programs "Man in Space" (1955) and "Tomorrow the Moon" (1955). Also found as a 1956 UK reprint as "A World Distributors Movie Classic" (#45) and a 1959 combined reprint with the other 2 Dell Comics adaptations of "Man in Space" films as: "Walt Disney's Man in Space" ("Dell Comics Giant" #27).

It was also made into a "Tomorrowland adventure" book for classroom use in 1959 as Man in Space: A Tomorrowland Adventure. Walt Disney Productions. Adapted for school use by Ley, Willy. Illustrated by Carbe, Nino. Syracuse, NY: LW Singer Co. Inc. (48 p.) 21 cm. Softcover.

It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. [2] It was released on DVD in 2004 as part of the Walt Disney Treasures line. The next episode in this series was Man and the Moon, and then Mars and Beyond.
  
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