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Issue Details

Issue #688
Published May 1956
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "ALEXANDER THE GREAT, No. 688". Code number is A.G.O.S. #688-565. Copyright 1956 by United Artists Corporation. Based on the 1956 movie "Alexander the Great".

Cover Details - "Alexander the Great"

Characters Richard Burton (as Alexander the Great, photo); Fredric March (as Philip of Macedonia, photo)
Genre period; war
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Colors ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Indicia title is "ALEXANDER THE GREAT, No. 688". Code number is A.G.O.S. #688-565. Copyright 1956 by United Artists Corporation. Based on the 1956 movie "Alexander the Great".

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Empire of Alexander the Great"

Characters Richard Burton (as Alexander the Great)
Synopsis Map of Alexander the Great's empire, along with two stills from the movie.
Genre period; war
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Includes movie credits and partial cast list.

34 page story "Alexander the Great"

Characters Alexander the Great; Philip of Macedonia; Aristotle; Darius; Roxane
Synopsis In the 4th Century B.C., Alexander helps his father, Philip of Macedonia, defeat Athens and unite Greece under his power. After his father is assassinated Alexander takes control and embarks on a campaign to conquer Persia.
Genre period; war
Pencils Alberto Giolitti
Inks Alberto Giolitti
Notes Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on the back cover in color. Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents". Adaptation of the 1956 movie "Alexander the Great". Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Stephane Pettit notes that the French magazine Back Up n° 14, credits the pencils to John Buscema (GCD Error List, 29 March 2009). This book is NOT by John Buscema, infos come from the John Buscema checklist built by Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr and Michel Maillot.