4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 323

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #323 Universal
Grade: 9.2
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE
Pedigree: File Copy
Certification #: 0201614008
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 12/7/2012
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Susie Q. Smith (#1) 3/51 File Copy First of four Susie Q. Smith Four Colors. Based on the Susie Q. Smith newspaper strip.

Cover art: Linda Walter
Script: Jerry Walter; Linda Walter
Pencils & Inks: Linda Walter

This copy is tied with two others as the top graded copies of just four submitted to date. 12/12. I bought this ungraded from Heritage Auctions as a 9.2 in 2008.

Here is some interesting info from the late Don Markstein’s Toonpedia.

Like her contemporaries, Aggie Mack, Candy and Patsy Walker (before her conversion to a superhero), Susie Q. Smith was a female Archie-type — not exactly an imitator, because Archie, who had started only four years earlier, hadn't yet become popular enough to spawn imitators, but part of his genre. She attended high school, where her teachers often seemed unreasonable to her, interacted with the opposite gender in a typically adolescent way, and her parents didn't completely understand her. And she was cute and perky as only a teenage girl can be.
Susie was the star of a comic strip distributed by King Features, the biggest of the comic strip syndicates, whose other offerings have ranged from Jackys Diary to Prince Valiant. King launched the strip in both daily and Sunday form in 1945. Daily, she was only in a panel at first, but it expanded into a full, multi-panel strip on February 7, 1953.
The creators were Harold "Jerry" Walter and his wife, Linda. Jerry was also responsible for Jellybean Jones, who has nothing to do with Jughead Jones's young sister, a modern-day addition to the Archie cast of characters. Together, they did The Lively Ones during the 1960s. Tho each was capable of doing both major jobs in comic strip production, their usual working method was for Jerry to dream up the ideas and write the dialog, while Linda did the artwork.
The Walters also collaborated on a series of Susie Q. Smith comic books for Dell Comics. Instead of reprinting newspaper strips, these ran new stories by the Walters. Between 1951 and '54, four issues were published as part of the Four Color Comics series, where many minor comic strips, including Dotty Dripple, Timmy and Rusty Riley had found a home. It had no other media spin-offs.
Susie Q. Smith had a respectable run in the newspapers, but it ended in 1959.
Copied and used with specific permission from GiGi Dane, the widow of the late Don Markstein. Please visit their site: http://www.toonopedia.com/articles/susie-q.htm



Table of Contents
1. 1. My Diary
Susie Q. Smith
2. 2. Falling in Love is as Easy as Falling Out of a Rowboat
Susie Q. Smith
3. 3. Modeling is Easy--Any Dope Can Do It!
Susie Q. Smith
4. 4. Some Men Are Mature and Some Men Are Just Plain Elderly
Susie Q. Smith
5. 5. [The Pie Errand]
Hungry Harris
6. 6. The Missing Mocha Layer Cake
Owlie Olson, Private Eye
7. 7. [no title indexed]
Every Dog Has His Say
8. 8. Little Brothers! Ugh!
Susie Q. Smith
9. 9. My Diary... (Also the back cover of this copy)
Susie Q. Smith

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