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Issue Details

Issue #1139
Published November 1960
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "SPARTACUS, No. 1139." Code number is SPARTACUS O.S. #1139-6011. Copyright 1960 by Bryna Productions. Based on the 1960 movie "Spartacus."

Cover Details - "Spartacus"

Characters Spartacus (as played by Kirk Douglas, photo)
Genre period
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Colors ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Indicia title is "SPARTACUS, No. 1139." Code number is SPARTACUS O.S. #1139-6011. Copyright 1960 by Bryna Productions. Based on the 1960 movie "Spartacus."

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Spartacus"

Characters Spartacus (as played by Kirk Douglas, photos)
Synopsis Preview of the story.
Genre period
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Five photos from the movie, plus a partial cast list.

32 page story "Spartacus"

Characters Spartacus; Marcellus; Batiatus; Varinia; Gracchus; Antonius; Crassus
Synopsis Spartacus, a gladiator, leads a slave revolt against the Roman Empire.
Genre period
Script Dalton Trumbo (screenplay); Gaylord Du Bois (comic adaptation)
Pencils John Buscema
Inks John Buscema (1-10); Mike Peppe (11-32)
Notes adapted from the 1960 Universal-International movie "Spartacus." Script submitted on August 23, 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, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Additional art infos come from the John Buscema checklist built by Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr and Michel Maillot.

1 page filler "Military Leaders of the Later Roman Republic"

Characters Gauis Marius; Lucius Cornelius Sulla; Marcus Licinius Crassus
Synopsis Short biographies of three Roman leaders.
Genre fact
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils John Buscema
Inks Mike Peppe ?
Letters Ben Oda
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Script submitted on August 31, 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, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page filler "Spartacus"

Characters Spartacus (as played by Kirk Douglas, photo)
Synopsis Preview of the story.
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Colors ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover. Two black and white photos with monochrome overlays.