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Issue Details

Issue #1001
Published August-October 1959
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "HIGH ADVENTURE, No. 1001." Code number is High.A. O/S #1001-598. Copyright 1959 by Odyssey Productions, Inc. Second of two High Adventure Four Colors. Based on a series of TV Specials by Lowell Thomas, newsman, adventurer, and explorer.

Cover Details - "Africa: Pygmies and hippo hunting!"

Characters Lowell Thomas (photo)
Genre fact; jungle
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Colors ? (photos)
Letters typeset

1 page filler The Australian "Never-Never" Land

Characters Lowell Thomas (photo)
Synopsis Brief facts and photos of Australian Aborigines.
Genre fact
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Script submitted on March 11, 1959. 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).

16 page Lowell Thomas High Adventure story "Mystery in Australia"

Characters Lowell Thomas; Harold Bell Lasseter (cameo)
Synopsis Lowell Thomas goes to the Australian Outback to solve the mystery of Harold Bell Lasseter, who set off a gold rush in the 1920s, then vanished.
Genre fact
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Bob Fujitani
Inks Bob Fujitani
Notes Script submitted on December 31, 1958. 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 and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

16 page Lowell Thomas High Adventure story "The Mountains of the Moon"

Characters Lowell Thomas; Colin Turnbull; Chris Pollet; Paul LeLoup; Eric Von Hippel
Synopsis Lowell Thomas explores the region around the Mountains of the Moon in equatorial Africa. He meets four white men: a crocodile hunter, a snake scientist, a big game hunter, and an anthropologist studying pygmies.
Genre fact; jungle
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Bob Fujitani
Inks Bob Fujitani
Notes Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents". Script submitted on January 7, 1959. 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 and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page filler "The Mountains of the Moon"

Characters Lowell Thomas (photo)
Synopsis Brief facts and photos of the Mountains of the Moon area of Africa.
Genre fact; jungle
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Script submitted on March 11, 1959. 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).

1 page filler "Australian Aboriginal Weapons"

Synopsis Facts about the Aborigines' boomerang and womera.
Genre fact
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Bob Fujitani
Inks Bob Fujitani
Notes Back cover; color. Panels with text underneath. Submitted on January 28, 1959, under the title "The Boomerang and the Womera". 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 and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)