4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 751

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #751 Universal
Grade: 9.2
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
Pedigree: File Copy
Certification #: 0206810011
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

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

Owner's Description

Our Miss Brooks 11/56 File Copy One Shot. Based on the 1952-56 "Our Miss Brooks" CBS-TV series.

Photo Cover: Connie Brooks (as played by Eve Arden, photo); Phillip Boynton (as played by Robert Rockwell, photo)
Pencils: Mike Sekowsky
Inks: Mike Peppe


This is the third best of four copies graded to date. A pair are tied for top spot at 9.4. 06/13. I originally bought this ungraded , as a 9.2, from Gene Carpenter.


Table of Contents
1. 0. Our Miss Brooks
Our Miss Brooks
2. 1. Our Miss Brooks
3. 2. [Mr. Conklin's Campaign for the School Board]
Our Miss Brooks Continues onto and is also the back cover of this issue.

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Thi sdatesme in that I never heard of this show. Yet, it was quite popular in its day. Wikipedia provides additional background on the source material for this comic.

Our Miss Brooks is an American situation comedy starring Eve Arden as a sardonic high school English teacher. It began as a radio show broadcast on CBS from 1948 to 1957. When the show was adapted to television (1952–56), it became one of the medium's earliest hits. In 1956, the sitcom was adapted for big screen in the film of the same name.

Awards [edit]
Both the radio and television shows drew as much attention from professional educators as from radio and television fans, viewers and critics. In addition to the 1948-49 poll of Radio Mirror listeners and the 1949 poll of Motion Picture Daily critics, Arden's notices soon expanded beyond her media. According to the Museum of Broadcast Communications, she was made an honorary member of the National Education Association and received a 1952 award from the Teachers College of Connecticut's Alumni Association "for humanizing the American teacher."
Our Miss Brooks was considered groundbreaking for showing a woman who was neither a scatterbrained klutz nor a homebody but rather a working woman who transcended the actual or assumed limits to women's working lives of the time. Connie Brooks was considered a realistic character in an unglamorized profession (she often joked, for example, about being underpaid, as many teachers were at the time) who showed women could be competent and self-sufficient outside their home lives without losing their femininity or their humanity.
Our Miss Brooks remained Eve Arden's most identifiable and popular role, with numerous surviving recordings of both the radio and television versions continuing to entertain listeners and viewers. (The surviving radio recordings include both its audition shows.) A quarter century after the show ended, Arden told radio historian John Dunning in an on-air interview just what the show and the role came to mean to her:
I originally loved the theater. I still do. And I had always wanted to have a hit on Broadway that was created by me. You know, kind of like Judy Holliday and Born Yesterday. I griped about it a little, and someone said to me, "Do you realize that if you had a hit on Broadway, probably 100 or 200,000 people might have seen you in it, if you'd stayed in it long enough. And this way, you've been in Miss Brooks, everybody loves you, and you've been seen by millions." So, I figured I'd better shut up while I was ahead.

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