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Issue Details

Issue #1069
Published November 1959
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "THE FBI STORY, No. 1069." Code number is F.B.I. STORY O.S. #1069-5911. Copyright 1959 by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. Adapted from the 1959 movie "The FBI Story."

Cover Details - "The FBI Story"

Characters Chip Hardesty (as played by James Stewart, photo)
Genre crime
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Colors ? (photos)
Letters typeset

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "The FBI Story"

Characters Chip Hardesty (as played by James Stewart, photo); Sam Crandall (as played by Murray Hamilton, photo)
Synopsis Preview of the story.
Genre crime
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
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Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Five photos and partial cast list and credits from the movie.

32 page story "The FBI Story"

Characters Chip Hardesty; Sam Crandall; George Crandall; Mike Hardesty; J. Edgar Hoover; Lucy Hardesty; Pretty Boy Floyd; John Dillinger (cameo); Machine Gun Kelly (cameo); Alvin Karpis (cameo)
Synopsis The story of Federal Bureau of Investigation agent Chip Hardesty and his family through the years from the 1920s to the 1950s. Episodes involve the Ku Klux Klan, Indian murders over oil rights in Oklahoma, gangsters in the 1930s, enemy spies in World War II, and Communist spies in the 1950s.
Genre crime
Script Eric Freiwald, Robert Schaefer
Pencils Alex Toth
Inks Alex Toth
Notes Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Adapted from the 1959 movie "The FBI Story."

1 page filler "FBI Agent in the Making"

Synopsis Facts about the training of F.B.I. agents.
Genre fact
Pencils Alex Toth
Inks Alex Toth
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with text underneath.

1 page filler "The FBI: Its Development and Astounding Progress"

Characters J. Edgar Hoover (cameo)
Synopsis A short history of the F.B.I.
Genre fact
Pencils Alex Toth
Inks Alex Toth
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover. Panels with text underneath.