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Issue Details

Issue #716
Published August 1956
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Alice Nielson Cobb (managing editor); Chase Craig (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
Notes Indicia title is "Walt Disney's MAN IN SPACE, No. 716." Code number is M.I.S. O.S. #716-568. Copyright 1956 by Walt Disney Productions. Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994).

Cover Details - "Man in Space"

Genre fact
Pencils ? (painted)
Inks ? (painted)
Colors ? (painted)
Letters typeset
Notes Subtitled "A Science Feature from Tomorrowland"
Reprinted in Dell Giant (Dell, 1959 series) #27

1 page Walt Disney's Man in Space foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Science-factual"

Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Text and illustration. The title is a play on "science fiction."

32 page Walt Disney's Man in Space story "Man in Space"

Characters Sir Isaac Newton (cameo)
Synopsis A short history of rockets, then an examination of the problems facing humans if they were in a rocket shot into space. Predictions and descriptions of the building of an orbiting space wheel and the first interplanetary trip around the moon and back are depicted.
Genre fact
Script Don Christensen
Pencils Tony Sgroi
Inks Tony Sgroi
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters typeset
Notes Panels with typeset narration.
Reprinted in Dell Giant (Dell, 1959 series) #27

1 page activity "Rocketeer's Quiz!"

Synopsis Multiple choice questions about space.
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Illustrations and typeset text. Dell's "A Pledge to Parents" is included in the lower right corner.

1 page story "Building Space Station S-1"

Synopsis The building of an orbiting space station.
Genre Science Fiction
Pencils ? (painted)
Inks ? (painted)
Colors ? (painted)
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover. Six paintings with typeset text. The panel 2 painting is also used as the cover to this issue.