4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 678

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #678 Universal
Grade: 9.4
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
Pedigree: Circle 8
Certification #: 0910938010
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 3/27/2010
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

The Last Hunt 2/56. This copy is out of the Circle 8 pedigree collection. It features a photo cover by Robert taylor and Stuart Grainger. It was based on a movie released in the era.

It is tied with two other books for second spot in the census below a lone 9.6. There are actually a "whopping" 13 copies graded to daye making it among the more popular books in the run.

"A relentless hunter at war with a vanishing herd"

The comic book based on the movie

Interesting notes:

The Last Hunt is a 1956 MGM western film directed by Richard Brooks and produced by Dore Schary. The screenplay was by Richard Brooks from a novel by Milton Lott. The music score was by Daniele Amfitheatrof and the cinematography by Russell Harlan.

The film stars Robert Taylor and Stewart Granger with Lloyd Nolan, Debra Paget and Russ Tamblyn.

The film was shot at the Badlands National Park and Custer State Park in South Dakota during the then-annual "thinning" of the buffalo herd. Actual footage of buffalo being shot and killed (by government marksmen) was used for the film. Harvey Lancaster of Custer was the main marksman for the filming. Brooks adapted the Milton Lott novel of the same name for the screenplay. The film was the first of only three westerns directed by Brooks, and was his first film following the critically acclaimed Blackboard Jungle (1955).

Sandy McKenzie (Stewart Granger) sets out on his last hunt with his long-time partner, the obsessive Charles Gilson (Robert Taylor). While McKenzie has grown tired of buffalo hunting, Gilson derives a pleasure from his "stands" – killing an entire herd of buffalo at one time. When Gilson chases down and kills an Indian raiding party, he takes an Indian woman and her child captive. The presence of the native woman causes tension and Gilson becomes increasingly paranoid and deranged, leading to a stand-off between the two former partners.

The story takes place during the winter but was actually filmed during the scorching summer months in Custer State Park. When temperatures reached triple digits Stewart Granger, whose costume consisted of full winter clothing, passed out from heat exhaustion and the crew had to cut away his clothes to revive him.

Granger and director Brooks were reportedly not fond of one another, especially after Brooks married Granger's ex-wife, Jean Simmons.
  
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