COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Four Color 712 Universal
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Grade:
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9.4
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE
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Certification #:
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0911059011
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Owner:
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4GEMWORKS
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Walt Disney's: The Great Locomotive Chase 7/56. Photo Cover. Ad back.
At 9.4 this is the best of only two graded copies to date. (4/12).
Stories:
Comic adaptation of the Disney movie "The Great Locomotive Chase"
1. Strategy for Heroes (factual article inside front cover)
2. Walt Disney's The Great Locomotive Chase
Interesting information:
The Great Locomotive Chase
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For the historical event that inspired the film, see Great Locomotive Chase.
The Great Locomotive Chase
Directed by
Francis D. Lyon
Produced by
Lawrence Edward Watkin
Written by
Lawrence Edward Watkin
Starring
Fess Parker
Jeffrey Hunter
John Lupton
Stan Jones
Slim Pickens
Music by
Paul J. Smith
Studio
Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by
Buena Vista Distribution Co. Inc.
Release date(s)
June 8, 1956
Running time
85 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
The Great Locomotive Chase is a 1956 Walt Disney Productions CinemaScope adventure film based on the real Great Locomotive Chase that occurred in 1862 during the American Civil War. The film stars Fess Parker as James J. Andrews, the leader of a group of Union soldiers from various Ohio regiments who volunteered to go behind Confederate lines in civilian clothes, steal a Confederate train north of Atlanta, and drive it back to Union lines in Tennessee, tearing up railroad tracks and destroying bridges and telegraph lines along the way.
Written and produced by Lawrence Edward Watkin and directed by Francis D. Lyon, the 85-minute full-color film also features Jeffrey Hunter, John Lupton, Kenneth Tobey, Don Megowan, and Slim Pickens. Paul J. Smith composed the score. Filmed in Georgia and North Carolina, along the now abandoned Tallulah Falls Railway, it was released in U.S. theaters by Buena Vista Distribution Company on June 8, 1956, and capitalized on Parker's growing fame as an actor from his portrayal of Davy Crockett. The film reteamed him with Jeff York (Mike Fink).
The steam engine upon which the film is based ("The General") is preserved at the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History in Kennesaw, Georgia. Representing the locomotive in the film is American-type steam engine #25 ("William Mason"), built in 1856 and preserved in operating condition at the B&O Railroad Museum. [1]
The final locomotive used by Conductor Fuller and the pursuers, "The Texas," has been restored and is on display at Grant Park in Atlanta, also home to the Cyclorama mural painting of the Battle of Atlanta.
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