4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Four Color 914 Universal
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Grade:
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9.2
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE
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Certification #:
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0761847005
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Owner:
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4GEMWORKS
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
No Time For Sergeants 7/58 Adapted from the movie "No Time for Sergeants."
Photo Cover: Will Stockdale (as played by Andy Griffith, photo); Ben Whitledge (as played by Nick Adams, photo)
Script: John Lee Mahin (screenplay); ? (comic adaptation)
Pencils & Inks: Alex Toth (signed)
This is the fourth best copy of six graded to date. A single 9.6 tops the census. 01/13.
Table of Contents
1. 1. No Time for Sergeants
2. 2. No Time For Sergeants
3. 3. The Big Change
4. 4. The Long Ride Down
5. 5. Have Fun Safely Wrigley's Juicy Fruit Gum Ad. This copy has the Wrigley’s Ad on the back cover.
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http://www.comics.org/issue/14632/
Additiuonal info from Wikipedia on the 1958 film.
No Time for Sergeants is a 1958 American comedy film directed by Mervyn LeRoy starring Andy Griffith and featuring Myron McCormick, Don Knotts and most of the original Broadway cast. Warner Brothers contract player Nick Adams joined the cast as Stockdale's fellow military draftee Benjamin B. Whitledge, as did Murray Hamilton as Irving S. Blanchard. The film is based on a play inspired by the original novel.
The story ends with Stockdale and Whitledge (who now has disdain for Stockdale for ruining his image in front of the captain back in the barracks) flying to Denver in an obsolete B-25 medium bomber. Stockdale's assignment is tail gunner on the bomber. After putting the plane on Autopilot, the lazy pilots fall asleep, and the airplane soon becomes lost at night over what the navigator thinks is the Gulf of Mexico. Stockdale and Whitledge bail out of the plane just before it crashes, and are declared dead by the Staff Aide M/Sgt. King. During an Air Medal ceremony honoring them as fallen heroes, they reappear, and the Air Force has to cover up that the pair are alive to avoid an international public humiliation.
Stockdale suggests both he and Ben (who finally forgives Stockdale for his unintentionally innocent flaws, as he thought he and Stockdale were to be executed for being deserters, inadvertently faking their deaths and for perpetrating a public fraud at the ceremony) be transferred to become infantrymen. Will and Ben are taken at night to a secluded area.
• Andy Griffith as Pvt. Will Stockdale
• Nick Adams as Pvt. Benjamin B. Whitledge
• Don Knotts as Cpl. John C. Brown (dexterity tester)
The film version was a major hit and was largely responsible for launching the popular careers of Griffith and Knotts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Time_for_Sergeants_(1958_film)
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