COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Four Color 970 Universal
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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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Pedigree:
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File Copy
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Certification #:
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0910887010
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Owner:
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4GEMWORKS
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Lawman 2/59 (#1) File Copy Based on the "Lawman" TV series.
Photo Cover: Dan Troop (as played by John Russell, photo); Johnny McKay (as played by Peter Brown, photo)
Pencils & Inks: Dan Spiegle
This copy is tied with one other as the second best of eight copies graded to date. A single 9.6 tops the census. 01/13. I originally bought this graded, as is, from Heritage Auctions.
Table of Contents
1. 1. [John Russell pinup]
Lawman
2. 2. The Deputy
Lawman
3. 3. Trial by Fury
Lawman
4. 4. [Peter Brown pinup]
Lawman
5. 5. Lawman Dan Troop...Marshal Also the back cover of this copy.
Lawman
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Additional information about the original Lawman show id provided courtesy of Wikipedia:
Lawman is an American western television series originally telecast on ABC from 1958 to 1962 starring John Russell as Marshal Dan Troop and featuring Peter Brown as Deputy Marshal Johnny McKay. The series was set in Laramie, Wyoming during 1879 and the 1880s. Warner Bros. already had several western series on the air at the time, having launched Cheyenne with Clint Walker as early as 1955. The studio continued the trend in 1957 with the additions of Maverick with James Garner and Jack Kelly, Colt .45 with Wayde Preston, and Sugarfoot with Will Hutchins. One year later, Warner Bros. added Lawman and Bronco with Ty Hardin.
Prior to the beginning of production, Russell and Brown and producer Jules Schermer made a pact to maintain the quality of the series so that it would not be seen as "just another western." At the start of season two, Russell and Brown were joined by Peggie Castle as Lily Merrill, the owner of the Birdcage Saloon, and a love interest for Dan. In its last season, Lawman was the lead-in on ABC for Marilyn Maxwell's unsuccessful series Bus Stop, which faced competition from NBC's Bonanza.
Lawman can currently be seen in re-runs of two episodes on Monday through Friday at 2 p.m. ET on the Encore Westerns Channel.
Production
Being part of the Warner Bros. array of westerns, Lawman participated in two crossovers. Russell and Brown appeared in the "Hadley's Hunters" episode of Maverick. Peter Brown and Adam West also appeared as Johnny McKay and Doc Holliday, respectively, in the Sugarfoot episode "The Trial of the Canary Kid", which was a sequel to the Lawman episode, "The Wayfarer." The premise was that the Canary Kid, Sugarfoot's twin cousin, was in the Laramie jail at the same time as Holliday, and McKay and Holliday were called in to testify accordingly.
The studio routinely recycled scripts through their various series to save money on writers, frequently crediting the results to "W. Hermanos" (Spanish for W. Brothers). Two Lawman scripts, "The Payment" and "The Judge" were renamed from episodes of Cheyenne and edited down from sixty to thirty minutes.
[edit] Merchandise
Lawman also spawned a variety of merchandise during the run of the series, including lunchboxes, puzzles, boots, arcade cards, sheet music, action figures, toy rifles, and cap pistols[7] There was also a Lawman comic, drawn by Dan Spiegle, which ran for eleven issues from 1958–1962.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawman_(TV_series)
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