4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 1128

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #1128 Universal
Grade: 9.4
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE
Pedigree: File Copy
Certification #: 0913076002
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 12/30/2010
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Rocky and His Friends (#1) 8-10/60 File Copy First Rocky and His Friends comic.
Writer credit from Keith Scott in his book "The Moose that Roared", though Jerry Bails's Who's Who indicates that Jack Mendelsohn wrote something in this issue. Note the flat style of Rocky's headgear; his goggles protrude in all other comics (not counting reprints).

Cover Art: Ben De Nunez and Al White
Script: Al Kilgore
Pencils & Inks: Ben De Nunez ?

This is a massively popular issue with 29 issues submitted for grading to date. This copy is tied with four others as third highest graded. Two 9.6’s sit atop the census. 04/13. I originally bought this graded, as is, from ComicLink.

Table of Contents
1. 0. Rocky and His Friends
Rocky and Bullwinkle
2. 1. Magnetic Moose
Rocky and His Friends
3. 2. The Youngest Outlaw
Peabody's Improbable History
4. 3. [Oddities]
Frivolous Facts
5. 4. Cinderella
Fractured Fairy Tales
6. 5. Petty Piracy
Peabody's Improbable History
7. 6. The Mooseterious Journey
Rocky and Bullwinkle
8. 7. Crossed Wires
Peabody's Improbable History
9. 8. The Jaywalker
Rocky and Bullwinkle This is the back cover of this copy.

I am not sure a variant exists with an AD back for the back cover.


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/201779/

Few cartoons were as successful as this show. Wikipedia scratches the surface and provides more information:

The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show (known as Rocky & His Friends during its first two seasons and as The Bullwinkle Show for the remainder of its run)[7] is an American animated television series that originally aired from November 19, 1959, to June 27, 1964, on the ABC and NBC television networks. Produced by Jay Ward Productions, the series is structured as a variety show, with the main feature being the serialized adventures of the two title characters, the anthropomorphic moose Bullwinkle and flying squirrel Rocky. The main adversaries in most of their adventures are the Russian-like spies Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale. Supporting segments include Dudley Do-Right (a parody of old-time melodrama), Peabody & Sherman (a dog and his pet boy traveling through time), and Fractured Fairy Tales (classic fairy tales retold in comic fashion), among others.[8]
Rocky & Bullwinkle is known for the quality of its writing and humor. Mixing puns, cultural and topical satire, and self-referential humor, it was designed to appeal to adults as well as children.[8] It was also one of the first cartoons whose animation was outsourced; storyboards were shipped to Gamma Productions, the same Mexican studio employed by Total Television). Thus the art has a choppy, unpolished look and the animation is extremely limited even by television animation standards. Yet the series has been held in high esteem by those who have seen it; some critics have described the series as a well-written radio program with pictures.[9]
The show was never a ratings hit and was shuffled around the day (airing in afternoon, prime time, and Saturday morning) but has garnered a minor yet influential cult following over the decades, influencing shows from The Simpsons to Rocko's Modern Life.[10] Segments from the series were later recycled in the Hoppity Hooper show. A feature film based on the series was produced by Universal Studios and released on June 30, 2000, to lukewarm reviews.[11] An animated feature film, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, and a short animated film based on the Rocky and Bullwinkle characters are being produced by DreamWorks Animation for a 2014 release.
Reception and cultural impact
• Rocky and Friends has aired in 100 countries.
• As a publicity stunt, Ward and Scott campaigned for statehood for "Moosylvania", Bullwinkle's fictional home state. They drove a van to about 50 cities collecting petition signatures. Arriving in Washington D.C., they pulled up to the White House gate to see President Kennedy, and were brusquely turned away. They learned that the evening they had arrived was during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis.[22]
• British Invasion band Herman's Hermits got its name because bandmates thought lead singer Peter Noone looked like Sherman of "Mr. Peabody" fame, and the name "Herman" was close enough to "Sherman" for them.
• TSR, Inc. produced a role playing game based on the world of Bullwinkle and Rocky in 1988. The game consisted of rules, mylar hand puppets, cards, and spinners.[23]
• A pinball machine dedicated to Rocky and Bullwinkle was released in 1993 by Data East.[24]
• When this show aired on Nickelodeon, it was entitled "Bullwinkle's Moose-a-rama" with the same end credits as "The Bullwinkle Show."
• Cartoon Network aired the show under the new "The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show" title, featuring their own version of the characters among a purple and green checkerboard background while retaining the original end credits.
• In January 2009, IGN named Rocky and Bullwinkle as the 11th best animated television series.[25]
• In 2002, Rocky and His Friends ranked #47 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.[26]
• In 1999, Mattel made Rocky & Bullwinkle themed cars under its Hot wheels line.[citation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_and_His_Friends
 
Image #1
Enlarge  
Image #2
Enlarge  

To follow or send a message to this user,
please log in