4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 1009

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #1009 Universal
Grade: 9.0
Page Quality: CREAM TO OFF-WHITE
Certification #: 0910193003
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 5/5/2008
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

The Rifleman 7-9/59 First and only Rifleman Four Color. Becomes The Rifleman (Dell 1960 series) with #2 (January-March 1960). Based on the ABC TV series "The Rifleman". All instances of "The Rifleman" as a logo in this issue have an asterisk at the end with a note somewhere else on the page that says "*Trademark".

Photo Cover: Chuck Connors (as Lucas McCain, The Rifleman, photo); Johnny Crawford (as Mark McCain, photo)
Script: Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils & Inks: Dan Spiegle

This is tied with two others as the third best copies graded top date. A whopping 19 have been graded, making this a tough book to find in high grade. A single 9.4 and 9.2 stand ahead of this copy. 02/13. I originally bought this comic graded, as is, from Heritage Auctions.


Table of Contents
1. 1. [Preview]
The Rifleman
2. 2. Outlaw's Pony
The Rifleman
3. 3. A Score to Settle
The Rifleman
4. 4. [The Bluff]
The Rifleman
5. 5. The Flip Special
[The Rifleman] Also the back cover of this copy.

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http://www.comics.org/issue/201708/

The Rifleman was hugely popular in its day. Chuck Conners beat out over 40 actors to claim the lead role. In five years they had over 500 guest stars. Below is some additional data about the show itself:

The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show was filmed in black-and-white, half-hour episodes. "The Rifleman" aired on ABC from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963 as a production of Four Star Television. It was one of the first prime time series to have a widowed parent raise a child.

Main cast
• Chuck Connors as Lucas McCain, a rancher, Union Army veteran of the American Civil War and widowed father
• Johnny Crawford as Mark McCain, Lucas' son
• Paul Fix as Micah Torrance, marshal of North Fork
Recurring cast
• Bill Quinn as Sweeney, the bartender
• Patricia Blair as Lou Mallory
• Joe Higgins as Nils Swenson
• Harlan Warde as John Hamilton
• Joan Taylor as Milly Scott
• Hope Summers as Hattie Denton
• John Harmon as Eddie Halstead
Seven actors played the town doctor during the series (usually known as "Doc Burrage"): Edgar Buchanan, Fay Roope, Rhys Williams, Jack Kruschen, Robert Burton, Ralph Moody and Bert Stevens.
Guest stars
More than 500 actors made guest appearances in over 970 credited roles during the series' run.[1] Guest stars included veteran actors John Carradine, Lon Chaney, Jr., Ellen Corby, John Dehner, and Agnes Moorehead. Several then-newcomers also appeared in the series, including Mark Goddard, Dennis Hopper, Michael Landon, Harry Dean Stanton and Robert Vaughn. Notable people in other fields also made cameo appearances such as singer Sammy Davis, Jr., future baseball Hall of Famer Don Drysdale, comedian Buddy Hackett and writer, director and producer Paul Mazursky.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rifleman
 
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