COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Four Color 1007
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Grade:
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9.2
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
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File Copy
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Certification #:
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0198381022
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Owner:
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4GEMWORKS
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
John Paul Jones 9/59 File Copy Adapted from the movie "John Paul Jones". Little known fact: John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin took his name at the suggestion of a friend who had seen the movie poster for this film. His actual name was John Baldwin!
Photo Cover: John Paul Jones (as played by Robert Stack, photo)
Script: Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils & Inks: Dan Spiegle [as D.S.] (signed)
To my dismay, even at 9,.2, this copy is just second lowest of seven graded copies. Obviously, a generally well preserved book. A 9.8 tops the census. I originally bought this as VF/NM on eBay from harleymarcopolo.
Table of Contents
1. 1. John Paul Jones
2. 2. John Paul Jones
3. 3. Proud Ancestors
4. 4. Historic Flags of the Revolutionary War Also the back cover of this copy.
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http://www.comics.org/issue/15253/
While Robert Stack goes on to become as famous as any actor in Hollywood, this movie is not well remembered. Here is some additional info from Wikipedia:
John Paul Jones is a 1959 biographical epic film about John Paul Jones.[2][3] The film was made by Samuel Bronston Productions and released by Warner Bros. It was directed by John Farrow and produced by Samuel Bronston from a screenplay by John Farrow, Ben Hecht, Jesse Lasky Jr. from the story Nor'wester by Clements Ripley. The music score was by Max Steiner, the cinematography by Michel Kelber.
The film starred Robert Stack in the title role, Marisa Pavan, Charles Coburn, Macdonald Carey, Jean-Pierre Aumont, David Farrar, Peter Cushing, Basil Sydney, Thomas Gomez and Mia Farrow in her film debut. Bette Davis made a cameo appearance as Empress Catherine the Great.[4]
Plot
By age 17, John Paul, a native of Scotland, is an experienced ship's navigator. In 1773, nine years later, he is master of a ship in the West Indies, but after an incident that results in the governor of Tobago advising him to leave, John Paul adds the surname Jones and goes to visit a brother who lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
The brother has recently died. Jones hires his attorney, Patrick Henry, to assist in business matters. He also takes a romantic interest in Henry's sweetheart, Dorothea Danders.
After serving as second-in-command of a battleship in the Bahamas, his adopted countrymen sign the Declaration of Independence. Jones gets his first command, sets sail toward Newfoundland and seizes 18 enemy ships, sending their supplies to American general George Washington.
Washington sends the young officer to France, where he is appreciated for heroic feats at sea. Benjamin Franklin then urges Johns to take a frigate and invade the British Isles. A new vessel is built for him at the suggestion of Marie Antoinette, and the only condition of his majesty King Louis XVI is that Jones' ship fly under an American flag.
Jones' successes ultimately lead him to Russia in 1790 at the behest of the empress, Catherine the Great. He gains acclaim as one of the most brave and daring naval figures of his time.
[edit] Reception
In his review of the film for the New York Times, Bosley Crowther observed: "Stack performs the knotty little Scotsman as though he were a slightly dull but talkative member of a conservative gentleman's club."[5]
John Paul Jones, bassist for English rock band Led Zeppelin, took this stage name at the suggestion of a friend, Andrew Loog Oldham, who had seen the film's poster (his birth name was John Baldwin).[6]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Jones_(film)
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