COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Four Color 1125 Universal
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Grade:
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9.2
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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0780667015
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Owner:
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4GEMWORKS
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Laramie (#1) 8-10/60 Based on the "Laramie" TV series.
Photo Cover: Slim Sherman (as played by John Smith, photo); Jess Harper (as played by Robert Fuller, photo); Jonesy (as played by Hoagy Carmichael, photo); Andy Sherman (as played by Robert Crawford, Jr., photo)
Script: Paul S. Newman
Pencils: Gil Kane
Inks: Gil Kane and Russ Heath
This copy is tied with one other as second best of six copies graded to date. A single 9.4 lies on top. 04/13. I originally bought this graded, as is, from Heritage Auctions.
Table of Contents
1. 0. [The Stage Frame-Up]
Laramie
2. 1. The Stage Frame-Up / The Passenger
Laramie
3. 2. The Stage Frame-Up
Laramie
4. 3. The Passenger
Laramie
5. 4. The Stage Comes of Age
6. 5. The Swing Station This is the back cover of some issues, including this copy.
A variation with an AD back, may exist.
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http://www.comics.org/issue/201776/
Laramie was one of many Westerns in the late 50’s early 60’s. It ran for 4 years on NBC. Wikipedia provides additional info on the series that this comic was based on:
Laramie is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from 1959 to 1963. A Revue Studios production, the program originally starred John Smith as Slim Sherman, Robert Fuller as Jess Harper, Hoagy Carmichael as Jonesy and Robert L. Crawford, Jr., as Andy Sherman.
Synopsis
The two Sherman brothers and a drifter, Jess Harper, come together to run a stagecoach stop for the Great Central Overland Mail Company after the Shermans' father, Matt, was murdered by a greedy land seeker. The Sherman parents are buried on the ranch. Not until near the end of the series was it revealed that Matt Sherman had been falsely accused during the American Civil War war of having aided the Confederates. When Jess Harper finds on Sherman ranch land the wreckage of a Union gold wagon stolen by Confederate raiders, Slim sets forth with the officer accused of helping the Confederates, portrayed by Frank Overton, and an Army major, the real culprit played by John Hoyt, to clear Matt Sherman's name. The gold dust in question had long ago been scattered by the wind.[1]
Hoagy Carmichael's contract was non-renewed after the first season,[2] and his character was eliminated with the explanation that he had accompanied Andy to boarding school in St. Louis, Missouri. Andy, however, returned to appear in a couple of episodes during the second season.
To restore the chemistry of the original cast, as the third season began in 1961, Spring Byington, formerly of the sitcom December Bride, and Dennis Holmes joined the series in the roles of Daisy Cooper, a matronly widow, and Mike Williams, a young orphan permitted to live at the Sherman Ranch pending location of any next of kin, which never happened. Laramie made the transition from black-and-white to color at the beginning of its third season. On January 1, 1962, a new version of the NBC peacock "living color" logo was introduced before the Laramie broadcast that evening. This symbol, the "Laramie Peacock", was used before every color program on the network until 1970. Because of declining ratings in its last season, Laramie was canceled.[2]
The series premiere "Stage Stop" (September 15, 1959) explains how Slim Sherman and Jess Harper become partners in the Sherman Ranch and Relay Station. Jess arrives in Wyoming from Texas in search of an erstwhile "friend", Pete Morgan, played by John Mitchum, who had robbed Jess. Morgan is part of the gang of Bud Carlin, played by Dan Duryea. The gang captures Judge Thomas J. Wilkens, portrayed by Everett Sloane, to keep him from trying Morgan. Though Jess and Slim are at odds with each other in their first encounters, and friendship seems out of the question, Andy Sherman takes an instant liking to Jess. Andy even asks Jess to take him away from the ranch, where he lives with his older brother Slim. Their first housekeeper is Jonesy, the role filled by Carmichael. Slim and Jess must fight together when Carlin shows up at the relay station and proceeds to humiliate the judge.[3]
Subsequent episodes focus on the close friendship that develops between Slim and Jess, as they become like brothers with occasionally strong differences of opinion but always finding reconciliation and common ground. Generally, Slim, who is taller than Jess and two years older, is depicted as the more level-headed and thoughtful, with Jess as more emotional, with righteous indignation and difficulty controlling his temper.
In the episode "Cactus Lady" (February 21, 1961), it is revealed that Jess Harper had been nearly hanged by mistake in the border city of Laredo, Texas, because of the McCanles gang, played by Arthur Hunnicutt, L.Q. Jones, Harry Dean Stanton, and Anita Sands. The gang arrives suddenly in Laramie.[5]
The German title of Laramie is Am Fuß der blauen Berge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laramie_(TV_series)
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