COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Four Color 891 Universal
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Grade:
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9.6
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE
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File Copy
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Certification #:
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0910811004
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Owner:
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4GEMWORKS
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Walt Disney’s Light in the Forest 3/58 File Copy Based on the 1958 Walt Disney film The Light in the Forest.
Photo Cover: Del Hardy (as played by Fess Parker); Johnny Butler [True Son] (as played by James MacArthur)
Pencils & Inks: Nicholas Firfires and Sparky Moore
This is tied with three others as trhe second highest graded gopy to date of 11 copies submitted to date. A single 9.8 tops the charts. 12/12. I bought this as if from Heritage Auctions.
Table of Contents
1. 1. [Movie photos]
2. 2. Light in the Forest
Walt Disney's Light in the Forest
3. 3. Savage Chivalry
4. 4. What the Tree Meant to the Delaware (Also the back cover of this copy)
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Some additional infi below is from Wikipedia:
The Light in the Forest is a 1958 film based on a novel of the same name first published in 1953 by U.S. author Conrad Richter. The film was produced by Walt Disney Productions and starred Fess Parker, Joanne Dru, James MacArthur and Wendell Corey. Though it is a work of fiction and primarily features fictional characters, the novel incorporates several real people and facts from U.S. history.
The film was directed by Herschel Daugherty and starred James MacArthur as True Son, Fess Parker as Del Hardy, Wendell Corey as Uncle Wilse, and Jessica Tandy as Myra Butler, True Son’s mother. The film introduced Carol Lynley as Shenandoe.
Its song title was written by Lawrence Edward Watkin, Paul J. Smith and his main collaborator, Hazel "Gil" George.
It expands the role of Del Hardy, portrayed by the popular Fess Parker, who remains with the Butler family much longer than in the novel. True Son’s blood brother, Gordon (Gordie) does not appear in the film. The character of Shenandoah, Uncle Wilse’s indentured servant, was added as a love interest for True Son. In the film the antagonism between True Son and Wilse culminates in a fist fight (with True Son the victor) rather than Wilse's scalping.
While the novel ends on a note of uncertainty, with True Son alone on a remote road and unsure where his future lies, the film has him return to his family, to Shenandoah, and, presumably, to a life on a plot of wild land his father has had deeded to him.
It was shot in Lookout Valley, Chattanooga, Tennessee and California.
The film premiered in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on 9 July 1958[1] at Senate Theater with actor Wendell Corey and his wife and some Mouseketeers like Jimmie Dodd, Annette Funicello, Tommy Cole, and Doreen Tracey.[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_in_the_Forest_(film)
Synopsis of the novel
John Cameron Butler, a young boy from a Pennsylvanian Colony in America is taken hostage during a raid by a Lenni Lenape tribe during territorial wars. None of the Pennsylvanian men rescue him, and he is adopted by tribesman Cuyloga into the Native American society and rechristened "True Son". Believing himself to be of Indian blood, he hates the colonists, and 11 years later, the American military men come to return him to his colonial home. His Native American father reluctantly gives him back to the colonists, in exchange for the return of some Indian lands. His cousin, Half Arrow, and his friend, Little Crane, accompany him on his journey to the new settlement, but soon they must leave him before they venture too far out of Native American territory. True Son returns to his colony of origin and finds it hard to communicate with his English speaking family.
His family tries reconnecting with their lost son, but he refuses to have any part in the English colony. His Aunt Kate remarks upon the objects that seem to be randomly missing from their places. Later, we find out True Son has been stealing various items for his journey back to the Native Americans. Little Crane was killed the previous night by his white racist Uncle Wilse, and he and Half Arrow go to scalp his uncle. His uncle fights back and calls for help, and True Son and Half Arrow forget their attempt and begin their trip back. True Son and Half Arrow return home and inform Cuyloga of the murder. Little Crane's family rallies a group to go raid the settlement to avenge Little Crane. All the men of the tribe go, as do True Son and Half Arrow. The tribe makes plans to ambush a boat. True Son was to tell them when to ambush the boat. True Son, instead, told the people on the boat that they were to be ambushed, thus betraying his Indian family and tribe. The tribe then forces him to go back to his white family. In the end it is Cuyloga who brings him back to the territory line and tells him that from that point on they will separate and become enemies, if they happen to see each other again they will treat each other like enemies and not like father and son.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_in_the_Forest
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