4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 604

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #604 Universal
Grade: 9.0
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
Certification #: 1109594007
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 3/8/2013
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Zane Grey’s Shadow on the Trail 12/54-2/55 Adapted from the 1946 novel "Shadow on the Trail" by Zane Grey.


Painted Cover: Sam Savitt
Script: Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils & Inks: Bob Correa

The lowest graded copy of just three graded to date. A single 9.4 tops the census. 05/13. I originally bought this graded, as is, from Neat Stuff Collectibles on EBay.

Table of Contents
1. 0. Zane Grey's Shadow on the Trail
2. 1. Shadow on the Trail
3. 2. Zane Grey's Shadow on the Trail Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color.

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Wikipedia has some interesting facts on Grey’s literary career:

Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that presented an idealized image of the American frontier. Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) was his best-selling book. In addition to the success of his printed works, they later had second lives and continuing influence when adapted as films and television productions. As of 2012, 112 films, two television episodes, and a television series, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, had been made that were based loosely on his novels and short stories.[1]

Literary works [edit]
Grey became one of the first millionaire authors. With his veracity and emotional intensity, he connected with millions of readers worldwide, during peacetime and war, and inspired many Western writers who followed him. Zane Grey was a major force in shaping the myths of the Old West; his books and stories were adapted into other media, such as film and TV productions. He was the author of more than 90 books, some published posthumously and/or based on serials originally published in magazines. His total book sales exceed 40 million.[60]
Grey wrote not only Westerns, but two hunting books, six children’s books, two baseball books, and eight fishing books.[61] Many of them became bestsellers. It is estimated that he wrote over nine million words in his career.[62] From 1917 to 1926, Grey was in the top ten best-seller list nine times, which required sales of over 100,000 copies each time.[63] Even after his death, Harper had a stockpile of his manuscripts and continued to publish a new title each year until 1963.[64] During the 1940s and afterward, as Grey's books were reprinted as paperbacks, his sales exploded.[citation needed]
Erle Stanley Gardner, prolific author of mystery novels and the Perry Mason series, said of Grey:
[He] had the knack of tying his characters into the land, and the land into the story. There were other Western writers who had fast and furious action, but Zane Grey was the one who could make the action not only convincing but inevitable, and somehow you got the impression that the bigness of the country generated a bigness of character.[65]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zane_Grey
 
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