4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 1077

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #1077 Universal
Grade: 9.6
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
Pedigree: File Copy
Certification #: 0041180010
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 5/3/2008
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

The Deputy (#1) 2-4/60 File Copy First of two The Deputy Four Colors. Based on the 1959-61 NBC TV series "The Deputy".

Photo Cover: Henry Fonda (as Marshal Simon Fry, photo); Allen Case (as Clay McCord, photo)
Script: Paul S. Newman
Pencils & Inks: John Buscema


This is the single best of eleven copies graded to date. 03/13. I originally bought this copy graded, as is, from Heritage Auctions.

Table of Contents
1. 1. The Deputy
2. 2. Pursuit
The Deputy
3. 3. The Treasure Trail
The Deputy
4. 4. Arizona Treasure
The Deputy
5. 5. Five Seconds to Play!
Frisky Fudgie; Kraft Fudgies This is the back cover of this copy.
6. 6. Arizona Landmarks This is a single page feature that is the back cover of some copies.

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This was based on the 1959-1961 TV series. One of the co-stars was Vivian Vance of I Love Lucy fame and created by Norman Lear of All in the Family fame!. Wikipedia provides a bit of additional color on the series:

The Deputy is a 1959-1961 half-hour NBC western series featuring Henry Fonda as Chief Marshal Simon Fry of the Arizona Territory and Allen Case as Deputy Clay McCord, a storekeeper who tried to avoid using a gun.

Production
Fonda narrated most episodes and appeared briefly at the beginning and ending of most segments. He played the lead in only six episodes in the first season and thirteen in the second. Usually he would give his deputy the assignment then more or less thank him afterward at the conclusion of the episode. As Fred MacMurray later did while shooting the sitcom series My Three Sons, Fonda performed all of his work on The Deputy in several lengthy sessions so as to leave himself free for other projects. The difference in quality between Fonda's episodes and Case's was often cited by both critics at the time and Fonda himself in later interviews. Fonda wore a growth of stubble on his face as Fry.
Though based in Silver City, the sheriff's district also covered several nearby towns. Deputy McCord was a storekeeper who bore arms with great reluctance. Wallace Ford starred as the elderly marshall, Herk Lamson, with Betty Lou Keim as McCord's sister, Fran, in the first season. Read Morgan joined the show in the second season as Sergeant Hapgood Tasker, known as "Sarge", a one-eyed United States Army cavalry officer stationed in town.
The series was created by Norman Lear. It was produced by Revue Studios and featured a jazz guitar score by Jack Marshall.
In 1961, Norma Crane appeared in the title guest-starring role, "The Return of Widow Brown", with child actor Dennis Holmes as her son, Tommy Brown. In the story line, Amelia Brown returns to the town of Silver City eight years after the lynching of her husband, Lem. Authorities believe that she is hiding away loot taken from her husband's crimes.[2]
Other guest stars included Lon Chaney, Jr., Wallace Ford, Tom Greenway, Clu Gulager, Douglas Kennedy, Denver Pyle, Gary Vinson, and Tony Young, the latter as Tweed Youngin the 1960 episode "The Fatal Urge". On April 30, 1960, Robert Redford made his television debut on The Deputy in the episode "The Last Gunfight". The half-hour format with its older professional lawman and his young assistant was similar to Warner Television's "Lawman".
The Deputy aired at 9 p.m. Eastern on Saturday. In its first year, it followed NBC's short-lived adventure series, The Man and the Challenge, starring, among others, George Nader and Jack Ging. It faced competition from Mr. Lucky on CBS and from The Lawrence Welk Show on ABC. In the second season, CBS dropped Mr. Lucky, and The Deputy faced competition from the second half of Checkmate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deputy_(TV_series)
 
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