Jules Verne, Part 5

(Continued from Part 4)

Dell Comics' FOUR COLOR #614 (1954) presents  
     20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA,  Part 3!

Adaptation by Gaylord DuBois  /  art by FRANK THORNE
"The EPIC conclusion..."
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And that brings us to the END of the adaptation! Here's an example of a scan after it's been rotated, cropped, and adjusted with "levels", "hue/intensity", "brightness" and "contrast"-- but before I did my painstaking restoration on it, for comparison.

There have been MANY comic versions of this story.  This one has been reprinted a number of times.  Here's some of the covers...

EN VERDENSOMSEILING UNDER HAVET  /
cover by (??)   (Hjemmet  /  Norway  /  1955)

20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA  /
cover by (??)   (Gold Key  /  December 1963)

EN VERDENSOMSEILING UNDER HAVET  /
cover by (??)   (Hjemmet  /  Norway  /  1976)

THE NEW MICKEY MOUSE CLUB FUNBOOK #11190  /
(Western  /  October 1977)

And finally, here's the cover of my copy. You can see why I had to look elsewhere to find a decent scan to clean up!

(Continued in Jules Verne, Part 6)

Copyright (C) 1954, by Walt Disney Productions.

Scans from my collection
Special thanks to FRANK THORNE  --what a guy!!

Raw scan of FOUR COLOR #614 cover painting
     & 1963 Gold Key reprint from the Heritage Auctions site

Raw scans of EN VERDENSOMSEILING UNDER HAVET  (1955 & 1976),
     and THE NEW MICKEY MOUSE CLUB FUNBOOK,
     from the GCD site

Restorations by HENRY R. KUJAWA

For more:
Read about Frank Thorne at the Wikipedia site
Read about Frank Thorne at the Comic Book Resources site
See more of Frank Thorne's art at the Comic Art Fans site

See the 20,000 LEAGUES overview!
Read the Jesse Marsh 20,000 LEAGUES adaptation!
Read the Frank Thorne 20,000 LEAGUES adaptation!
Read the Wally Wood 20,000 LEAGUES parody!
Read the Jack Kirby 20,000 LEAGUES parody!
Read the Dan Spiegle CAPTAIN NEMO series!
Read the Jim Fair CAPTAIN NEMO series!
Read the Bill Baker 20,000 LEAGUES adaptation!
Read the Gary Gianni 20,000 LEAGUES adaptation!
Read the Ernie Colon 20,000 LEAGUES adaptation!

See the JOURNEY overview!
See the MYSTERIOUS ISLAND overview!  
 
Special thanks to Patrick Ford
     for identifying the writer of the 1954 Dell Comics version.

Jules Verne, Part 4

(Continued from Part 3)

Dell Comics' FOUR COLOR #614 (1954) presents  
     20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA,  Part 2!

Adaptation by Gaylord DuBois  /  art by FRANK THORNE
"Our story continues..."
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(Continued in Jules Verne, Part 5  /  Coming Soon!)

Copyright (C) 1954, by Walt Disney Productions.

Scans from my collection
Special thanks to FRANK THORNE
Restorations by HENRY R. KUJAWA

For more:
Read about Frank Thorne at the Wikipedia site
Read about Frank Thorne at the Comic Book Resources site
See more of Frank Thorne's art at the Comic Art Fans site

See the 20,000 LEAGUES overview!
Read the Jesse Marsh 20,000 LEAGUES adaptation!
Read the Frank Thorne 20,000 LEAGUES adaptation!
Read the Wally Wood 20,000 LEAGUES parody!
Read the Jack Kirby 20,000 LEAGUES parody!
Read the Dan Spiegle CAPTAIN NEMO series!
Read the Jim Fair CAPTAIN NEMO series!
Read the Bill Baker 20,000 LEAGUES adaptation!
Read the Gary Gianni 20,000 LEAGUES adaptation!
Read the Ernie Colon 20,000 LEAGUES adaptation!

See the JOURNEY overview!
See the MYSTERIOUS ISLAND overview! 

Jules Verne, Part 3

(Continued from Part 2)

I think that Jules Verne's 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA is quite probably his most famous and popular story.  A big part of that is the 1954 feature film, which is no doubt also the most famous, most popular and by far BEST film adaptation of any Verne story ever made.  Never mind that it doesn't exactly follow the book-- in many ways, I feel it IMPROVES on the book dramatically.

When my friend Frank Thorne decided to send me his "last copy" of Dell's FOUR COLOR #614, I just flipped out!  It instantly become one of the oldest comics in my collection (original, not reprint).

Dell Comics' specialty was "licensed" properties.  It's no surprise they did the comics adaptation of the 1954 movie.  The film studio must not have sent them much in the way of reference photos, perhaps wanting to keep the film a secret, as the only thing in the comic that resembled the film was The Nautilus, and the diving suit seen on the cover.   Despite this, the art is vastly superior to the Gilberton version of 6 years earlier.

FOUR COLOR 614  /
cover by (??)   (Dell  /  February 1955)

inside front cover

Adaptation by Gaylord DuBois  /  art by FRANK THORNE
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(Continued in Jules Verne, Part 4  /  Coming Soon!)

Copyright (C) 1954, by Walt Disney Productions.

Raw scan FOUR COLOR #614 cover painting
     from the Heritage Auctions site
Interior scans from my collection
Special thanks to FRANK THORNE
Restorations by HENRY R. KUJAWA

For more:
Read about Frank Thorne at the Wikipedia site
Read about Frank Thorne at the Comic Book Resources site
See more of Frank Thorne's art at the Comic Art Fans site

See the 20,000 LEAGUES overview!
Read the Jesse Marsh 20,000 LEAGUES adaptation!
Read the Frank Thorne 20,000 LEAGUES adaptation!
Read the Wally Wood 20,000 LEAGUES parody!
Read the Jack Kirby 20,000 LEAGUES parody!
Read the Dan Spiegle CAPTAIN NEMO series!
Read the Jim Fair CAPTAIN NEMO series!
Read the Bill Baker 20,000 LEAGUES adaptation!
Read the Gary Gianni 20,000 LEAGUES adaptation!
Read the Ernie Colon 20,000 LEAGUES adaptation!

See the JOURNEY overview!
See the MYSTERIOUS ISLAND overview!