4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 1060

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Comic Description: Four Color #1060 Universal
Grade: 8.0
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
Pedigree: File Copy
Certification #: 0212103007
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

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Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 7/16/2013
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

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Journey to the Center of the Earth-Movie Classic 11/59 File Copy Adapted from the 1959 movie "Journey to the Center of the Earth" based on the novel of the same name by Jules Verne.
"Movie Classic" on cover.

Photo Cover: Prof. Oliver Lindenbrook (photo of James Mason); Alec McEwen (photo of Pat Boone); Mrs. Carla Goetaborg (photo of Arlene Dahl); Hans Belker (photo of Peter Ronson)
Script: Robert Schaefer
Pencils & Inks: John Ushler

Table of Contents
1. 0. Journey to the Center of the Earth
2. 1. Journey to the Center of the Earth
3. 2. Journey To the Center of the Earth
4. 3. Filming the Depths of the Earth
5. 4. [Pat Boone

Back Cover has photo of Pat Boone. I would guess an AD back edition does not exist.


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http://www.comics.org/issue/15324/

Wikipedia provides additional background info on the movie the comic was based on:

Journey to the Center of the Earth (French: Voyage au centre de la Terre, also translated under the titles A Journey to the Centre of the Earth and A Journey to the Interior of the Earth) is a classic 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the centre of the Earth. He, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans descend into the Icelandic volcano Snæfellsjökull, encountering many adventures, including prehistoric animals and natural hazards, before eventually coming to the surface again in southern Italy, at the Stromboli volcano.
From a scientific point of view, this story has not aged quite as well as other Verne stories, since most of his ideas about what the interior of the Earth contains have since been disproved, but it still manages to captivate audiences when regarded as a classic fantasy novel…
… Inspiration[edit]
The book was inspired by Charles Lyell's Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man of 1863 (and probably also influenced by Lyell's earlier ground-breaking work "Principles Of Geology", published 1830–33). By that time geologists had abandoned a literal biblical account of Earth's development and it was generally thought that the end of the last glacial period marked the first appearance of humanity, but Lyell drew on new findings to put the origin of human beings much further back in the deep geological past. Lyell's book also influenced Louis Figuier's 1867 second edition of La Terre avant le déluge which included dramatic illustrations of savage men and women wearing animal skins and wielding stone axes, in place of the Garden of Eden shown in the 1863 edition.[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth
 
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