COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Four Color 1028
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Grade:
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9.6
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
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Certification #:
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0721666001
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Owner:
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4GEMWORKS
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Rawhide (#1) 9-11/59 First of six Rawhide Four Colors. Based on the 1959-66 CBS TV series "Rawhide."
Photo Cover: Gil Favor (photo of Eric Fleming); Rowdy Yates (photo of Clint Eastwood)
Script: Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils & Inks: Warren Tufts
This is the single best copy of 12 graded to date. 4/13. I bought this graded , as is, from Metropolis Comics.
Table of Contents
1. 0. [Trail to Freedom]
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2. 1. [Preview]
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3. 2. Trail to Freedom
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4. 3. A Town Full of Trouble
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5. 4. The Trail Outfit
6. 5. The Chuck Wagon This is a single page cartoon and also the back cover of thios copy.
I cannot verify that an AD back exists for this issue.
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http://www.comics.org/issue/201717/
Rawhide not only featured one of the most famous actors that would make it to the silver screen, it was the fifth longest Western series ever produced. It was outlasted only by such shows as the Virginian, Wagon Train, Bonanza and Gunsmoke. Wikipedia provides additional elaboration on the TV series the comic was based on:
Rawhide is an American Western series starring Eric Fleming and Clint Eastwood that aired for eight seasons on the CBS network on Friday nights, from January 9, 1959[1] to September 3, 1965, before moving to Tuesday nights from September 14, 1965 until January 4, 1966, with a total of 217 black-and-white episodes. The series was produced and sometimes directed by Charles Marquis Warren, who also produced early episodes of Gunsmoke.
Spanning seven and a half years, Rawhide was the fifth-longest-running American television Western, exceeded only by eight years of Wagon Train, nine years of The Virginian, fourteen years of Bonanza, and twenty years of Gunsmoke.
Set in the 1860s, Rawhide portrays the challenges faced by the men of a cattle drive. There are 20-25 riders looking after 3,000 head of cattle. Gil (short for Gilbert Favor, episode 181) revealed this is about the maximum manageable size for a herd of cows. The cattle drive begins in San Antonio, Texas, and makes its way along the Sedalia Trail (Sedalia, the final destination, is in Missouri about 50 miles east from Kansas City). In later seasons Favor and crew push the cattle up the newer Chisum trail rather than the Sedalia Trail. The herd is estimated to be worth about $50,000–60,000 (about 1.3 million in 2010 dollars[2]) if sold at market and represents a pool of cattle from approximately 200 owners. The trail boss carries a considerable sum of cash for all necessities and all possible emergencies. Pay was a dollar a day and "all you can eat" for the drovers. Riding drag was often a punishment since it was behind the herd, so a rider would pick up all of the herd's dust. Drives had a remuda, a pool of extra horses. If something happened to a man's horse, he would be useless without an instant replacement.
Usually the episode would be introduced by Gil Favor but sometimes by others. The typical Rawhide story involved drovers, portrayed by Eric Fleming (trail boss Gil Favor) and Clint Eastwood (ramrod Rowdy Yates), coming upon people on the trail and getting drawn into solving whatever problem they presented or were confronting. Sometimes one of the members of the cattle drive or some of the others would venture into a nearby town and encounter some trouble from which they needed to be rescued. Rowdy Yates was young and at times impetuous in the earliest episodes and Favor had to keep a tight rein on him. Favor was a savvy and strong leader who always played "square" with his fellow men. He was a tough customer who could handle the challenges and get the job done. (Producer Charles Warren called on the diary written in 1866 by trail boss George C. Duffield[3] to shape the character of Favor).[4] Although Favor had the respect and loyalty of the men who worked for him, there were a few times when people, including Yates, were insubordinate under him after working too hard or after receiving a tongue lashing. Favor had to fight at times and almost always won. Some of the stories were obviously easier in production terms but the peak form of the show was convincing and naturalistic, and sometimes brutal. Its situations could range from parched plains to anthrax, ghostly riders to wolves, cattle raiding, bandits, murderers, and so forth. A problem on such drives was the constant need for water, and the scout spent much of his time looking for it, sometimes finding that water holes and even rivers had dried up. In some ways the show was similar to the TV series Wagon Train, which had debuted on NBC on September 18, 1957.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rawhide_(TV_series)
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