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Issue Details

Issue #672
Published January 1956
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Helen Meyer
Notes Cover is photo of Robert Taylor with drawn background. Indicia title is "QUENTIN DURWARD, No. 672". Code number is Q.D.O.S. #672-561. Copyright 1955 by Loew's Incorporated. Based on the 1955 movie "Quentin Durward."

Cover Details - "Quentin Durward"

Characters Robert Taylor (as Quentin Durward, photo)
Genre period
Pencils ? (photo); ? (art)
Inks ? (photo); ? (art)
Colors ? (photo); ? (art)
Letters typeset
Notes Cover is photo of Robert Taylor with drawn background. Indicia title is "QUENTIN DURWARD, No. 672". Code number is Q.D.O.S. #672-561. Copyright 1955 by Loew's Incorporated. Based on the 1955 movie "Quentin Durward."

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Quentin Durward"

Characters Robert Taylor (as Quentin Durward, photo); Kay Kendall (as Isabelle, Countess of Macroy, photo)
Synopsis Preview of story, told in seven stills from the movie.
Genre period
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Includes credits and partial cast list for the movie.

34 page story "Quentin Durward"

Characters Quentin Durward; Lord Crawford; Isabelle, Countess of Macroy; King Louis XI; Charles, Duke of Burgundy; Count William De la Marck
Synopsis Elderly Lord Crawford of Scotland sends Quentin Durward to Burgundy to bring back the young Isabelle, Countess of Macroy, for an arranged marriage. Lady Isabelle flees and Quentin Durward pursues her. Along the way he makes an enemy of De la Marck, a renegade count who controls the woods. Betrayed by King Louis, Durward and Lady Isabella flee De la Marck. Durward and De la Marck have a final showdown in the burning tower of a church.
Genre period
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Ralph Mayo
Inks Mike Peppe
Letters Ben Oda
Notes Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on the back cover in color. The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents". Adapted from the 1955 movie "Quentin Durward". Script submitted on August 20, 1955. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)