4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 329

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #329 Universal
Grade: 8.0
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
Pedigree: File Copy
Certification #: 0917577014
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 4/26/2013
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Roy Rogers Trigger (#1) 5/51 File Copy Continues as Roy Rogers' Trigger #2 (September-November 1951)

Painted Cover: Unidentified
Script: Gaylord Du Bois
All other interior art: Unidentified

This is the second best of three copies graded to date. Single 9.0 tops the census. . I bought this graded, as is, from Heritage Auctions.

Table of Contents
1. 0. [untitled]
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2. 1. [no title indexed]
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3. 2. Trigger
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4. 3. [no title indexed]
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5. 4. [no title indexed]
Trigger Painted back cover.


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Wikipedia provides some additional interesting information about Trigger:

Trigger (originally named Golden Cloud, 1932–3 July 1965) was a 15.3 hands (63 inches, 160 cm) palomino horse, made famous in American Western films with his owner/rider, cowboy star Roy Rogers. Pedigree [edit]
Though often mistaken for a Tennessee Walking Horse, his sire was a Thoroughbred and his dam a grade (unregistered) mare who, like Trigger, was a palomino. Movie director William Witney, who directed Roy and Trigger in many of their movies, claimed a slightly different lineage, that his sire was a "registered" Palomino stallion (though neither Palomino registry existed at the time of Trigger's birth), and his dam was by a Thoroughbred and out of a "cold-blood" mare.[1] (Trigger, Jr, who was no relation to Trigger, was in fact a registered Tennessee Walking Horse.) Though Trigger remained a stallion his entire life, he was never bred and has no descendants.
Film career [edit]
Golden Cloud made his movie debut as the mount of Maid Marian, played by Olivia de Havilland in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). A short while later, when Roy was preparing to make his first movie in a starring role, he was offered a choice of five rented "movie" horses to ride and chose Golden Cloud. Roy bought him that same year, 1938, and renamed him Trigger for his quickness, not only of foot but of mind. Trigger had 150 trick cues and could walk 50 feet on his hind legs (according to sources close to Roy Rogers). They were said to have run out of places to cue Trigger.
Trigger was ridden by Rogers in many of his motion pictures, becoming much loved by the youthful audience that saw him on film and in Rogers' 1950s television series with his wife Dale Evans, who rode her trusty buckskin Quarter Horse Buttermilk.
Trigger became the most famous horse in film entertainment, even having his own Dell comic book recounting his exploits.
Roy Rogers made many personal appearances with Trigger in tow. More than once Roy escorted Trigger up 3-4 flights of stairs at hospitals to visit with sick children, according to his autobiography "Happy Trails."
Death and legacy [edit]
After Trigger died in 1965, his hide was stretched over a plaster likeness and put on display at the Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Museum in Victorville, California which was relocated to Branson, Missouri in 2003, and closed in late 2009. The taxidermy work was performed by Adolph Robert (Bud) Stasche of A. R. Stasche Taxidermy, Feasterville, Pennsylvania. A 24-foot replica of Trigger was produced to sit atop the Roy Rogers Museum in Victorville. The 1,300 lb. replica could be seen from the freeway and served as a landmark until the museum closed and moved to Branson. When the fiberglass replica of Trigger was being made, Rogers was approached by the owners of the Denver Broncos. Rogers allowed another statue to be made and then broke the mold. "Bucky the Bronco," Trigger's twin, stands above the south scoreboard of the Denver Broncos stadium.
After the closing of the museum in 2009, its contents were placed at public auction on July 14–15, 2010, at Christie's auction house in New York City. Trigger's hide sold for $266,500 to television channel RFD-TV, which plans to start a Western museum.[2] Bob Tinsley, a Victorville developer who had built Roy Rogers' home in nearby Apple Valley, bought the fiberglass replica in April 2010. Tinsley's plan is to make the statue a part of historic Apple Valley Village. He explained, "I just couldn't see letting him go anywhere else."[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigger_(horse)
 
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