Classics Illustrated Special (1955) comic books 1960
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Issue #156A
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The Atomic Age. Painted cover by Gaylord Welker. Stories and art by Sam Glanzman, John Tartaglione, Angelo Torres, L. B. Cole, George Evans, Norman Nodel, Gerald McCann, Bruno Premiani, and Everett Raymond Kinstler. The semiannual Specials from Classics Illustrated were educational comics on science, history and American culture. This issue focuses on the history and science of radioactivity, with an emphasis on beneficial uses such as power, medicine and science, and downplaying its use in warfare, a topic much in mind during the 1950s. Featuring art by legends L. B. Cole, Sam Glanzman, George Evans, and Everett Raymond Kinstler, including the science and history of atomic power plants by Evans; the science of nuclear fission by Kinstler; and nuclear medicine featuring art by future Mad magazine artist Angelo Torres. The Atomic Age; Adventure North; The Smallest Particle; Inside the Atom; The Atomic Furnace; The Magic Mineral; How to Build a Radiation Detector; Alpha, Beta, and Gamma; Atoms for Power; The Radioscope; Atoms and Industry; Atoms and Agriculture; Atoms and Medicine; The Healing Rays; The Atom Tomorrow; The Ages of Energy; The Search for Uranium. 96 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.35.
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Issue #159A
$19.50
View scan- 3/4" Spine split from bottom.
- Overspray along bottom of comic.
$9.80
$9.80
Rockets, Jets and Missiles. Painted cover by Allen Simon. Stories and art by Gray Morrow, Sam Glanzman, John Tartaglione, Jack Abel, H. J. Kihl, Gerald McCann, and George Evans. The semiannual Specials from Classics Illustrated were educational comics on science, history and American culture. This issue focuses on the early era of jet power and spaceflight, and speculation about the coming era of interplanetary exploration. Featuring art by legends Sam Glanzman, George Evans, and Gray Morrow, including The Flight of the X-1 by Evans, Seven for Space and Off Into Orbit by Morrow, and Artificial Moons and Doorway Into Tomorrow by Glanzman. Also featuring the helpfully titled article "Don't Do It Yourself." Cool painted cover by Allen Simon. Rockets, Jets and Missiles; Space Talk; The Moon; The Jet Is Born; Space Talk; Mercury; Jet Engines; Jets Around the World; Venus; Rockets Through Time; Mars; The Wizard of Worcester; Jupiter; Rocket Engines; Dont Do It Yourself; Saturn; Rockets and Missiles Around the World; Artificial Moons; Uranus; Seven for Space; Neptune; Off Into Orbit; Pluto; Doorway Into Tomorrow; Stones from Space; Other Worlds. 96 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.35.
