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The World Around Us, Issue #30

Publisher: Gilberton

Series Title: The World Around Us

Issue: #30


Publish Date: February 1961
type: cover
Genre: non-fiction
Pencils: Jay Scott Pike (painting)
Inks: Jay Scott Pike (painting)
Colors: Jay Scott Pike (painting)
Cover Characters: scuba divers; shark
Synopsis: Scuba divers, armed with knife and spear gun, confronting large shark
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The World Around Us 30 - Undersea Adventures, page 58, February 1961 by George Evans Comic Art
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The World Around Us 30 - Undersea Adventures, page 58, February 1961 by George Evans

Art Details

Artist: George Evans (Penciller)
George Evans (Inker)
Media Type: Pen and Ink
Art Type: Interior Page
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Views: 106
Comments: 3
Added to Site: 6/20/2025

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Issue Breakdown

Type Title Creators Characters Synopsis
cover Pencils: Jay Scott Pike (painting)
Inks: Jay Scott Pike (painting)
Colors: Jay Scott Pike (painting)
scuba divers; shark Scuba divers, armed with knife and spear gun, confronting large shark
table of contents Table of Contents Letters: typeset Table of contents; indicia; editorial credits
illustration Undersea Adventures Pencils: Jack Kirby
Inks: Dick Ayers
Letters: typeset
two scientists Two scientists peering at the underwater world through the window of a bathysphere; introductory text for the issue
comic story The Frogmen Pencils: Angelo Torres
Inks: Angelo Torres
Letters: typeset
Men of the Italian Tenth Light Flotilla Riding undersea "pig" piloted torpedoes, Italian frogmen attack British warships in Alexandria and Gibraltar.
comic story Mines Below Pencils: Angelo Torres
Inks: Angelo Torres
Letters: typeset
Lieutenant Lionel Crabb; Royal Navy scuba divers Lionel Crabb joins British scuba divers protecting shipping and fighting Italian frogmen in Gibraltar.
comic story Underwater Conquest Pencils: Sam Glanzman
Inks: Sam Glanzman
Letters: typeset
sponge divers; pearl divers; Spartan swimmers; Alexander the Great; David Bushnell; Robert Fulton History of underwater exploration, from ancient Greek sponge divers through early underwater devices, experiments by Bushnell and Fulton, and the first bathysphere.
comic story Sea Monsters -- False and True Pencils: Gray Morrow
Inks: Gray Morrow
Letters: typeset
Five mythical sea creature as imagined in the sixteenth century, and five unusual real sea creatures.
comic story Sunken Treasure Pencils: Lou Morales
Inks: Lou Morales
Letters: typeset
Captain Thomas Dickinson, R.N.; Brazilian divers; Kefti mariners; Turkish sponge diver Captain Dickinson uses a diving bell to salvage treasure lost in a shipwreck; modern divers use scuba gear; divers investigate Mayan wells, and a Kefti shipwreck in the Mediterranean
comic story Skin Diving Pencils: Tony Tallarico
Inks: Tony Tallarico
Letters: typeset
game warden; scientist; skin divers; geologists Explanations of skin diving, practical applications in wildlife management, oil prospecting, police work, and scientific studies are given.
comic story In Magellan's Wake Pencils: Sam Glanzman
Inks: Sam Glanzman
Letters: typeset
Captain Edward L. Beach; crew of the US nuclear submarine Triton Beach and his crew conduct the Triton on the world's first underwater circumnavigation of the globe.
comic story Seven Miles Down Pencils: Stan Campbell
Inks: Stan Campbell
Letters: typeset
Jacques Piccard; Lieutenant Don Walsh Piccard and Walsh take the first bathyscaph (Trieste) to a record depth -- 35,800 feet in the Marianas Trench.
text story The Duel Pencils: Jack Kirby
Inks: Jack Kirby
Letters: typeset
Viscount Gontram Joseph de Signoles; George Lamil; the Colonel After provoking a duel, the Viscount kills himself rather than actually face it.
comic story D-Day Part 4: Night Drop Pencils: George Evans
Inks: George Evans
Letters: typeset
U.S. airborne troopers; British airborne troopers; German soldiers U.S. and U.K. paratroopers and glider troopers descend on Normandy and attack the Germans, hours before the D-Day seaborne assault.
comic story The Red Planet Part 4: A Trip to Mars Pencils: Angelo Torres ?
Inks: Angelo Torres ?
Letters: typeset
Astronauts Speculation in the means of the first flight to Mars, and what astronauts might find there.
activity The World of Science: Blue Skies Pencils: Jack Kirby
Inks: Dick Ayers
Letters: typeset
Comic-story activity on why the sky is blue, and how to separate blue light from white light.
promo (ad from the publisher) Letters: typeset Promo with order coupon for back issues of Classics Illustrated (H.R.N. 159). Thumbnail of cover to #149, Off on a Comet.
promo (ad from the publisher) Letters: typeset Promo with order form for subscriptions to The World Around Us. Several thumbnails of covers, some partially hidden.

 

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