Issue: #129
Published: [November 6] 1950, Price: [0.25 USD], Pages: 196, Editing: Roy Ald
Color: Four Color Dimensions: 4.125 By 7" Paper Stock: Newsprint; Glossy Cover Binding: Mass Market Paperback Publishing Format: One-shot
Notes: An early graphic novel. Historian Martin O'Hearn calls it the the "First (or Second) Modern Graphic Novel", but it depends on the definitions of "modern" and "graphic novel" one is using. (It is unknown whether this or It Rhymes with Lust (St. John, 1950 Series) was released first)
This book does not have a cover price. Other Gold Medal books from this period generally sold for 25 cents.
On sale date from the publication date as submitted to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Volume 4, Part 1A, Number 2, Books, July-December 1957. Class A book. Copyright number A50009.
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