COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Four Color 910 Universal
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Grade:
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9.6
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE
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Pedigree:
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File Copy
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Certification #:
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0910810017
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Owner:
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4GEMWORKS
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
The Vikings 6/58 File Copy adapted from THE VIKINGS (1959; United Artists)
Photo Cover: Kirk Douglas
Script: Leo Dorfman
Pencils & Inks: John Buscema
Tied with one other as the best copies of five submitted to date. 12/12. I originally bought this as is from Heritage Auctions.
Table of Contents
1. 1. [no title indexed]
2. 2. The Vikings
The Vikings
3. 3. A Mystery In Stone
4. 4. Viking Conquests (also the back cover of this copy)
Some data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license. http://www.comics.org/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
http://www.comics.org/issue/14605/
Additional interesting info from Wikipedia with regards to the original movie:
The Vikings is an adventure film directed by Richard Fleischer in 1958 Technicolor, produced by and starring Kirk Douglas, and based on the novel The Viking by Edison Marshall, based in its turn on legendary material from the sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok and his sons. Other starring roles were taken by Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh and Ernest Borgnine. The film made notable use of natural locations in Norway. It was mostly filmed in Maurangerfjorden and Bondhus, captured on film by cinematographer Jack Cardiff although Aella's castle was the real Fort de la Latte in north-east Brittany.
Despite being derisively called a "Norse Opera" by New York Times critic Bosley Crowther, the film proved a major box office success and spawned the television series Tales of the Vikings, directed by the film's editor, Elmo Williams, which included none of the original cast or characters.
The Vikings was the second and, as it turned out, last collaboration between Fleischer and Douglas (the first was 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea). According to the All-Movie Guide, the director and star disagreed on the approach to the material and "for years thereafter would hold each other responsible for the film's falling short of its potential."
Cast
• Kirk Douglas as Einar
• Tony Curtis as Erik
• Ernest Borgnine as Ragnar
• Janet Leigh as Morgana
• James Donald as Egbert
• Alexander Knox as Father Godwin
• Maxine Audley as Enid
• Frank Thring as Aella
• Eileen Way as Kitala
• Edric Connor as Sandpiper
• Dandy Nichols as Bridget
• Per Buckhøj as Bjorn
• Orson Welles as The Narrator
[edit] Casting
Ernest Borgnine plays Ragnar, the father of Einar, played by Kirk Douglas. Borgnine was born almost two months after Douglas.
[edit] Reception
The film was the 3rd most popular film at the British box office in 1958.[2]
[edit] Legacy
Much of the plot was later appropriated by Mario Bava for his own Viking epic, Erik the Conqueror.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vikings_(1958_film)
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