COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Four Color 1200
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Grade:
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8.0
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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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0198382024
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Owner:
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4GEMWORKS
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Hennesey 8-10/61 File Copy Based on the 1959-1962 "Hennesey" TV series.
Photo Cover: Lt. Charles "Chick" Hennesey (as played by Jackie Cooper, photo); Nurse Martha Hale (as played by Abby Dalton, photo)
Pencils: Gil Kane
Inks: Sal Trapani and Mike Peppe
This is the fourth best of five copies graded to date. A single 9.4 tops the census. 05/13. I originally bough tthis ungraded, as a VF+, from Heritage Auctions.
Table of Contents
1. 0. Hennesey
Hennesey
2. 1. The New Doctor / Under Observation
Hennesey
3. 2. The New Doctor
Hennesey
4. 3. Navy Doctors
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5. 4. Under Observation
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6. 5. Disaster Relief
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7. 6. Heroic Navy Doctors
Hennesey This is a single page feature and is also the back cover of this and some other copies of this issue.
8. 7. Ad back cover : Daisy BB gun was the back cover for some copies of this issue.
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http://www.comics.org/issue/16590/
This was actually a fairly long running television series on CBS. Wikipedia has a few background notes on the series that provided source material for this comic book.
Hennesey is an American military sitcom/drama television series with Jackie Cooper in the title role that aired on CBS from 1959 to 1962.
Cooper played a United States Navy physician, Lt. Charles J. "Chick" Hennesey, with Abby Dalton as Navy nurse Lt. Martha Hale. In the story line, they are assigned to the hospital at the U.S. Naval Station in San Diego, California.
Extended cast [edit]
• Jackie Cooper as Lt. Charles "Chick" Hennesey, M.D.
• Abby Dalton as Lt. Martha Hale, R.N.
• Roscoe Karns as Capt. Walter Shafer
• Henry Kulky as Max Bronski
• James Komack as Harvey Spencer Blair, III, D.D.S.
• Arte Johnson as Seaman Shatz
• Herb Ellis as Dr. Dan Wagner
• Robert Gist as Dr. Owen King
• Stephen Roberts as Commander Wilker
• Harry Holcombe as William Hale
• Ted Fish as Chief Branman
• Frank Gorshin as Seaman Pulaski
• Norman Alden also as Seaman Pulaski
Guest stars [edit]
Actor and singer Bobby Darin was cast in the second episode (October 5, 1959) with the unlikely name of "Honeyboy Jones". Less than a year earlier, Darin had rocketed to fame with his version of the song, "Mack the Knife".
Prior to being cast as Opie Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show, child actor Ron Howard played "Walker", a little boy temporarily left in Hennesey's care in the 1959 episode "The Baby Sitter".
Charles Bronson, en route to a long film career, was cast twice as Lt. Cmdr. Steve Ogrodowski, a Navy intelligence officer.
Don Rickles was cast in the 1961 episode "Professional Sailor" as CPO Ernie Schmidt. From 1976 to 1978, Rickles played the lead with the same rank in the NBC military sitcom, C.P.O. Sharkey.
Bandleader Les Brown and His Band of Renown and comedian Soupy Sales appeared in separate episodes as themselves.
Production notes [edit]
The series was notable for an extremely catchy theme tune (by Sonny Burke), a jazzy hornpipe played by tuba and piccolo. Hennesey was also innovative for being the first series to employ what has since become a standard device in television: beginning the dialog and action of each episode during opening credits.
Cooper starred in, produced and directed the series, drawing upon his real-life experience as a World War II Navy veteran and his continuing service for many years as an officer in the United States Naval Reserve. He was a former child actor who starred in the Our Gang comedies of the early 1930s and then moved into feature films.
Scriptwriter Richard Baer wrote thirty-eight of Hennesey's episodes beginning in 1960, which earned him an Emmy nomination.[1]
In the series finale, "I, Thee Wed" (May 7, 1962), characters Chick and Martha tie the knot of matrinony.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hennesey
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