4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 709

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Comic Description: Four Color #709 Universal
Grade: 9.0
Page Quality: WHITE
Pedigree: File Copy
Certification #: 0206810009
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

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Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 3/20/2013
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

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The Searchers 6/56 File Copy Adapted from the 1956 Warner Bros. movie "The Searchers."

Photo Cover: Ethan Edwards (as played by John Wayne, photo)
Pencils: Mike Roy
Inks: Mike Peppe

This is the fifth best copy of nineteen copies graded to date. Two 9.4’s top the census. 06/13. I originally bought this ungraded, as a VF.

Table of Contents
1. 0. The Searchers
2. 1. The Searchers
3. 2. The Searchers Story continues on to and is the back cover of this issue.


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Any movie with John Wayne did well and this was no exception. Wikipedia has some great nuggts of information:

The Searchers is a 1956 American Western film directed by John Ford, based on the 1954 novel by Alan Le May, and set during the Texas–Indian Wars. The film stars John Wayne as a middle-aged Civil War veteran who spends years looking for his abducted niece (Natalie Wood), accompanied by his adoptive nephew (Jeffrey Hunter).
The film was a commercial success, although it received no major Academy Award nominations. Since its release, it has come to be considered a masterpiece, and one of the greatest films ever made. It was named the Greatest American Western of all time by the American Film Institute in 2008, and it placed 12th on the American Film Institute's 2007 list of the 100 greatest American movies of all time.[1] Entertainment Weekly named it the best Western of all time.[2] The British Film Institute's Sight & Sound magazine ranked it as the seventh best movie of all time based on a 2012 international survey of film critics.
Reception:

Upon the film's release, Bosley Crowther called it a "ripsnorting Western" (in spite of the "excessive language in its ads"); he credits Ford's "familiar corps of actors, writers, etc., [who help] to give the gusto to this film. From Frank S. Nugent, whose screenplay from the novel of Alan LeMay is a pungent thing, right on through the cast and technicians, it is the honest achievement of a well-knit team."[6] Crowther noted "two faults of minor moment":[6]
• "Episode is piled upon episode, climax upon climax, and corpse upon corpse...[t]he justification for it is that it certainly conveys the lengthiness of the hunt, but it leaves one a mite exhausted, especially with the speed at which it goes.
• "The director has permitted too many outdoor scenes to be set in the obviously synthetic surroundings of the studio stage...some of those campfire scenes could have been shot in a sporting-goods store window."
Variety called it "handsomely mounted and in the tradition of Shane", yet "somewhat disappointing" due to its length and repetitiveness; "The John Ford directorial stamp is unmistakable. It concentrates on the characters and establishes a definite mood. It's not sufficient, however, to overcome many of the weaknesses of the story."[16]
The film earned rentals of $4.8 million in the US and Canada during its first year of release
Later assessments [edit]
In 1989, The Searchers was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress, and selected for preservation in its National Film Registry; it was in the first cohort of films selected for the registry. The Searchers has been cited as one of the greatest films of all time, such as in a Sight and Sound poll of the greatest films ever made. In 1972, The Searchers was ranked 18th; in 1992, fifth; in 2002, 11th; in 2012, 7th. The 2007 American Film Institute 100 Greatest American Films list ranked The Searchers in 12th place. In 2008, the American Film Institute named The Searchers as the greatest Western of all time.[18] In 2010, Richard Corliss noted the film was "now widely regarded as the greatest western of the 1950s, the genre's greatest decade" and characterized it as a "darkly profound study of obsession, racism and heroic solitude."[19] The film also maintains a perfect 100% rating on review aggregator, Rotten Tomatoes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Searchers_(film)
 
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