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You've read the novel! You've seen the movie! Now-- read the comic!
Dell's FOUR COLOR #614 (late 1954) presents...

Jules Verne's 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA

adaptation by Gaylord DuBois / art by FRANK THORNE!!!
Gloriously, painstakingly restored! (Trust me, folks, this looks BETTER than when the comic was NEW.)

Part 1 of 3:
http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/01/jules-verne-part-3.html

And now, following a bit of a delay...

You've read the novel! You've seen the movie! Now-- read the comic!
Dell's FOUR COLOR #614 (late 1954) presents...

Jules Verne's 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA

adaptation by Gaylord DuBois / art by FRANK THORNE!!!
Gloriously, painstakingly restored! (Trust me, folks, this looks BETTER than when the comic was NEW.)

Part 2 of 3:
http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/01/jules-verne-part-4.html

An excellent read and in great condition.

It's so well constructed that I was disappointed that the dog on page 4 didn't make a further appearance. Practically everything else has a pay off. It really shows off the moral complexity of the characters well. I always preferred Nemo to Ned Land

"in great condition"

There was a chemical spill, and the cover could NOT be fixed. Luckily I found a GREAT scan at the Heritage Auctions site, which required only minor clean-up.

The rest is taking longer than normal, as I'm putting much more work in than usual cleaning up interior pages. But between this being possibly the oldest comic in my collection, and the subject matter, I figure it's worth it.

What continues to blow my mind is HOW MANY different comics versions of "20,000 LEAGUES" there are. I still don't have all of them listed at my blog's "overview" pages!


http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2013/08/jules-verne.html

that is a lot of Leagues

And now, here it is... THE EPIC CONCLUSION!!

You've read the novel! You've seen the movie! Now-- read the comic!
Dell's FOUR COLOR #614 (late 1954) presents...

Jules Verne's 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA

adaptation by Gaylord DuBois / art by FRANK THORNE!!!
Gloriously, painstakingly restored!
(Trust me, folks, this looks BETTER than when the comic was NEW.)

Part 3 of 3:
http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/01/jules-verne-part-5.html

My online tribute to Jules Verne continues!

What could be more perfectly fitting to follow up the Frank Thorne version of
20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA than the Jesse Marsh version? Oddly enough, as far as I know, this is the only comic in my collection by Marsh.

Because of the various formatting done with newspaper strips, depending on which paper it appears in, or when it's collected in a magazine or book, some versions have additional or fewer panels than others, or have panels cropped or expanded. The coloring also changes from version to version. As I'm setting this up on my blog, I decided to follow the tradition and re-format it AGAIN, to best show off the art. I'm also trying to include as many panels as possible. Right now, the biggest, high-quality images I have also have the fewest panels, so I'm using that and taking the "extra" panels from the other, lower-quality versions.

In one instance, I had a high-quality version in French-- where I replaced the text with brand-new lettering I did myself in English!

I wanna give a big thank you to Jimmm Kelly for clueing me in about the existence of this version in the first place, as well as pointing me to the websites that had scans posted. (If you're reading this, Jimmm, please let me have the links again, as I want to include them on the blog as I did with the BOY'S LIFE material.)

Here's the first 4 Sunday installments... enjoy!

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/03/jules-verne-part-6.html

Now this is a bit maddenning.

Back in November, a friend at the Comic Book Plus board told me about the 1954 newspaper strip version. Took awhile, but he found a couple of websites it was posted at.

I downloaded all the scans I could, but hadn't had a chance to really look at it too close until now.

It looks like there were 22 weeks-- and at the moment, I'm missing 8 of them!! (Weeks 7, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19 & 21)

It looks like I may have a few of these in Foreign editions-- but aside from not being able to read those, the foreign scans are at some site called INDUCKS, and the images I have access to are very small & low-quality.



The crazy thing is, one of the moderators at the CBP site actually deleted a post my friend made with the links, because (he said) it went to a site that was NOT "public domain".

Gee, at that rate, I'm surprised the guy hasn't deleted EVERY post I've ever posted in the "blogs" section of the message board. (Some people...)



So, anybody have any of this stuff?

20,000 LEAGUES by Jesse Marsh... PART 2!

This is getting like one of those film restorations where they have chunks missing, and have to assemble the most complete print they can from various sources.

"Collision speed... FULL!"

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/03/jules-verne-part-7.html

20,000 LEAGUES by Jesse Marsh... PART 3!

This gets more frustrating as it goes. 3 out of the next 5 installments are currently MISSING. This includes the entire battle with the GIANT SQUID, which is virtually the centerpiece of every version of this story, including most book covers and promotional artwork. But I'm setting these up right now anyway, in the hope that the rest will turn up eventually.

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/03/jules-verne-part-8.html

20,000 LEAGUES by Jesse Marsh... PART 4!

Annoying, 4 out of the last 8 Sunday sections are (as of 4-1-2014) MISSING. But I'm going to finish setting these up anyway, and hope that the rest turns up eventually.

One terrific thing, Marsh's art looks SO MUCH better with the panels blown up to the size I'm presenting them here. It's probably close to the size they were originally printed when a Sunday newspaper strip used to take up the full width of a regular newspaper page.

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/03/jules-verne-part-9.html

20,000 LEAGUES by Jesse Marsh... PART 5!

I'm frustrated that 2 out of the last 4 episodes are currently MISSING... but at least I do have the FINAL episode, even if it is in B&W.

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/03/jules-verne-part-10.html

I've been a been remiss in updating the ongoing threads in my Facebook group the last few days, but it's mostly because I've been racing like mad to get this Jesse Marsh project finished! Funny enough, as far as I know, I don't have even one Jesse Marsh comic in my entire collection! But I'm sinking all I have into making what scans of this one I found online look as STUNNING as possible.

20,000 LEAGUES by Jesse Marsh... PART 1!

Yes, having polished off the end of the story (give or take the ones I'm completely missing), I'm now going back and UPGRADING what I already have, in some cases adding new panels I didn't have and in others replacing B&W panels with COLOR ones from a Portuguese version (while at the same time replacing the Portuguese text with ENGLISH text, either from the B&W version, or in a few cases, with MY OWN lettering).

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/03/jules-verne-part-6.html

Okay, now I'm satisfied... well, at least for now.

20,000 LEAGUES by Jesse Marsh... PART 2!

I re-processed the 5th Sunday strip, which was a Portuguese scan, and replaced the English text to make it SHARPER. Simply, this version is as good as it's gonna get, UNTIL I find some MUCH-better scans. Enjoy!

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/03/jules-verne-part-7.html

The 2nd page of the Jesse Marsh 20,000 LEAGUES adaptation has been upgraded!

Episode 5 has had 8 of its 10 panels UPGRADED with HI-RES versions.

Episode 6 has 2 "extra" panels added, albeit in low-res versions.

But best of all... Episode 7, which I only had previously in a LOW-RES French version, I now have the COMPLETE episode, in English-- although, only in B&W.

Enjoy!

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/03/jules-verne-part-7.html

The 3rd page of the Jesse Marsh 20,000 LEAGUES adaptation has been upgraded!

Episode 10 has been re-processed from a higher-quality color version, and, the 2 "extra" panels have been added from a B&W version.

Episode 11, previously missing, has been added from a B&W version.

Episode 12, I've added the 2 "extra" panels from a B&W version.

Episode 13, previously missing, has been added from a hi-res color version, plus the 2 "extra" panels added from a B&W version.

Episode 14, previously missing, has been added from a B&W version. I also have a low-res color version, purely for reference until a better one turns up.

ENJOY!

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/03/jules-verne-part-8.html

The 4th page of the Jesse Marsh 20,000 LEAGUES adaptation has been upgraded!

Episode 15 has the 2 "extra" panels added from a B&W version.

Episode 16, previously missing, has been added from a 3-tier B&W version.

Episode 17, previously missing, has been added from a 3-tier B&W version.

ENJOY!

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/03/jules-verne-part-9.html

The 5th page of the Jesse Marsh 20,000 LEAGUES adaptation has been upgraded!

Episode 19, previously missing, has been added from a hi-res 2-tier color version.

Episode 20, the 2 "extra" panels have been added from a B&W version.

Episode 21, previously missing, has been added from a hi-res 2-tier color version AND a 3-tier B&W version.

At last, the story is COMPLETE!! ENJOY!

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/03/jules-verne-part-10.html

thanks Prof. I'm going to take a good look over the weekend.

Some of it's still in B&W, but at least there's no complete episodes missing now. I owe a lot to "Jimmm Kelly" opver at the Comic Book Plus site, who first clued me into the Jesse Marsh's version's existence, then pointed me at a couple of websites that had the images posted.

They reminded me a bit of the BOY'S LIFE website, in that it was virtually impossible to read or enjoy the images at the original site. But after careful downloading, renaming, cleaning up in Photoshop (some of it EXTENSIVE), re-cutting & posting, DAMN I'm proud of the way I'm re-presenting it at my blog.

There's a short series (only 3 stories) of "prequel" adventures with Dan Spiegle art I found and plan to go after soon.

When I started on "20,000 LEAGUES" last year, I had no idea there were so many different comics-related adaptations and such. It's definitely the most popular Jules Verne story. Once I've exhausted all I can do with it, I plan to eventually move on the what's probably the 2nd-most popular Verne story... "JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH".

At the moment, in addition to the "overview", I have 3 complete versions of "20,000 LEAGUES" posted...

Jesse Marsh ("Treasury Of Classic Tales" newspaper strip),
Frank Thorne (Dell Comics FOUR COLOR issue) and
Jack Kirby (Charlton's FROM HERE TO INSANITY parody).