Classics Illustrated Special Issue #165

Classics Illustrated Special Issue — Gilberton Publications

Issue: #165

This non-fiction comic is a thorough resource on the entire solar system. It gives all the pertinent information about the planets (nine at the time of publication) and the Sun and Moon. It gives the size (radius, diameter and circumference) of every heavenly body. It gives the distance from each planet to the sun, the number of moons each planet has, its surface temperature for both day and night...

First appearances: Yuri Gagarin

Creators: Norman Nodel

Characters: Roger Bacon, Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Sir Isaac Newton, Yuri Gagarin, Caroline Herschel, William Herschel, Icarus, Daedalus, Johannes Kepler