4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 949

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #949 Universal
Grade: 9.2
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE
Pedigree: File Copy
Certification #: 0910810010
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 6/29/2009
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Lowell Thomas High Adventure (#1) 11/58 File Copy Based on the "High Adventure with Lowell Thomas" TV series.

Photo Cover: Lowell Thomas
Script: Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils & Inks: Bob Fujitani

This is currently the second best copy of four graded to date. A single 9.4 tops the census. 01/13. . I bought this graded, as is, from Heritage Auctions.


Table of Contents
1. 1. [New Guinea / Tracking a Man-Eater]
Lowell Thomas High Adventure
2. 2. New Guinea
Lowell Thomas High Adventure
3. 3. Tracking a Man-Eater
Lowell Thomas High Adventure
4. 4. New Guinea Tools and Weapons
5. 5. The Man Eater Also the back cover of this copy.

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Wikipedia tidbits on Lowell Thomas:

Early life and career
Thomas was born in Woodington, Darke County, Ohio, to Harry and Harriet (née Wagner) Thomas. His father was a doctor and his mother a school teacher. In 1900, the family moved to the mining town of Victor, Colorado. There he worked as a gold miner, a cook, and a reporter on the newspaper.
In 1910, Thomas graduated from Victor High School, where one of his teachers was Mabel Barbee Lee.[1] The following year, he graduated from Valparaiso University with bachelor's degrees in education and science. The next year he received both a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Denver and began work for the Chicago Journal, writing for it until 1914. Thomas also was on the faculty of Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Institute of Technology, where he taught oratory from 1912 to 1914. He then went to New Jersey, where he studied for a master's at Princeton University (he received the degree in 1916) and again taught oratory at the university.
A relentless self-promoter, Thomas persuaded railroads to give him free passage in exchange for articles extolling rail travel. When he visited Alaska, he hit upon the novel idea of the travelogue, movies about faraway places. When the United States entered World War I, he was part of an official party sent by President Wilson, former president of Princeton, to "compile a history of the conflict." In reality the mission was not academic. The war was not popular in the United States, and Thomas was sent to find material that would encourage the American people to support it. Thomas did not want to merely write about the war, he wanted to film it. He estimated that $75,000 would be needed for filming, which the U.S. government thought too expensive, and so he turned to a group of 18 Chicago meat packers. (He had done them a favor by exposing someone who was blackmailing them, without the damaging material becoming public.)


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