4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 985

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #985 Universal
Grade: 9.4
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE
Pedigree: File Copy
Certification #: 0157873014
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 6/9/2009
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Walt Disney’s The Shaggy Dog 4-6/59 File Copy Based on the Walt Disney film in 1959.

Photo Cover: The Shaggy Dog
Script: Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils & Inks: Dan Spiegle

This copy is tied with two others as the second best copy of eight graded to date. A single 9.6 tops the census currently. )1/13. I originally bought this , ungraded as a NM- from Comic Book Warehouse on Ebay.

Table of Contents
1. 1. [Shaggy Dog]
Shaggy Dog
2. 2. The Shaggy Dog
Shaggy Dog
3. 3. [Shaggy Dog]
Shaggy Dog
4. 4. [Shaggy Dog]
Shaggy Dog Also the back cover of this copy

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http://www.comics.org/issue/173634/

Born in 1960, this was one of the first Disney movies I remember. Back then, anything Disney released in the last 10 years qualified as new enough to watch and enjoy. Below is some added information on the movie from Wikipedia:

The Shaggy Dog is a black-and-white 1959 Walt Disney film about Wilby Daniels, a teenage boy who by the power of an enchanted ring of the Borgias is transformed into the title character, a shaggy Old English Sheepdog. The film was based on the story, The Hound of Florence by Felix Salten. It is directed by Charles Barton and stars Fred MacMurray, Tommy Kirk, Jean Hagen, Kevin Corcoran, Tim Considine, Roberta Shore, and Annette Funicello. It was the first ever Walt Disney live-action comedy.
Walt Disney Productions filmed a successful sequel in 1976 called The Shaggy D.A. which starred Dean Jones, Tim Conway, and Suzanne Pleshette. It was followed by a 1987 TV-movie sequel, a 1994 TV-movie remake and a 2006 theatrical remake (see Legacy section below).
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Production notes
In the late 1950s, the idea of an adult human turning into a beast was nothing new, but the idea of a teenager doing just that in a movie was considered avant-garde and even shocking in 1957 when AIP released their horror film, I Was a Teenage Werewolf, one of the studio's biggest hits.[2] The Shaggy Dog betrays its successful forebear with Fred MacMurray's classic bit of dialogue: "Don’t be ridiculous — my son isn’t any werewolf! He’s just a big, baggy, stupid-looking, shaggy dog!"[2]
The movie was originally intended as the pilot for a never-made TV series and advertised as "the funniest shaggy dog story ever told," although it is not in fact a story of that genre. The director was Charles Barton, who also directed Spin and Marty for The Mickey Mouse Club. Veteran screenwriter Lillie Hayward also worked on the Spin and Marty serials, which featured several of the same young actors as The Shaggy Dog.
Veteran Disney voice actor Paul Frees had a rare on-screen appearance in the film – for which he received no on-screen credit – as Dr. J.W. Galvin, a psychiatrist who examines Wilby's father (MacMurray). Frees also did his usual voice acting by also playing the part of the narrator who informs the audience that Wilson Daniels is a "man noted for the fact he hates dogs."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shaggy_Dog_(1959_film)
 
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