4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 1087

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #1087 Universal
Grade: 7.0
Page Quality: CREAM TO OFF-WHITE
Pedigree: File Copy
Certification #: 0152811028
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 8/8/2008
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Peter Gunn 4-6/60 File Copy First and only Peter Gunn Four Color. Based on the 1958-61 NBC/ABC TV series.
Photo Cover: Peter Gunn (photo of Craig Stevens)
Script: Paul S. Newman
Pencils: Mike Sekowsky
Inks: Frank Giacoia


This is actually the lowest of seven copies graded to date. Here’s hoping for a better copy later! 03/13. I originally bought this copy ungraded, as a VF+, from Heritage Auctions.

Table of Contents
1. 1. [Previews]
Peter Gunn
2. 2. The Harmless Hobby
Peter Gunn
3. 3. The Purple Clue
Peter Gunn
4. 4. William J. Burns
Peter Gunn Private Eye Pioneers
5. 5. Allen Pinkerton
Peter Gunn Private Eye Pioneers
6. 6. Kraft Carmel’s Ad on back. This is also the back cover of this copy.

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The comic was based on a 1959 show of the same name. Below is some additional info on the original TV show. Wikipedia provides additional details below:

Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series which aired on the NBC and later ABC television networks from 1958 to 1961. The show's creator (and also writer and director on occasion) was Blake Edwards. It was also directed by Boris Sagal, Robert Gist, Jack Arnold, Lamont Johnson and one episode by Robert Altman and several others. A total of 114 thirty-minute episodes were produced by Spartan Productions. Season one was filmed at Universal Studios, seasons two and three were filmed at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Philip H. Lathrop and William W. Spencer were cinematographers on many episodes. Stevens' wardrobe was tailored by Don Richards and Albright's fashions by Jax.
The series is probably best remembered today for its music, especially the popular "Peter Gunn Theme", which won an Emmy Award and two Grammys for Henry Mancini and has been subsequently covered by many jazz, rock, and blues recording artists. The series was #17 in the Nielsen ratings for the 1958-1959 TV season.
The title character, played by Craig Stevens, is a well-dressed private investigator whose hair is always in place and who loves cool jazz. Where other gumshoes might be coarse, Peter Gunn is a sophisticate with expensive tastes. He operates in a nameless waterfront city, a regular patron of Mother's (a smoky wharfside jazz club) that he uses as his "office", often meeting clients there. Pete's standard fee is $1,000. He has a reputation of being one of the best investigators and trustworthy. He sometimes works cases out of the state and on at least one occasion out of country with one case occurring in Mexico. Gunn drives a 1958 two-tone DeSoto two door hardtop in the first few episodes of the first season, then a 1959 Plymouth Fury convertible with a white top and a mobile phone.
Pete's girlfriend, Edie Hart (Lola Albright), was a sultry singer employed at Mother's; she later opens her own place. Pete's pet name for Edie is "Silly". Herschel Bernardi costarred as Lieutenant Jacoby, a police detective and friend of Gunn; Occasionally he refers people to Pete as clients. Bernardi received his only Emmy nomination for the role. Hope Emerson appeared as "Mother", who had been a singer and piano player in speakeasies during Prohibition. She received an Emmy nomination for the role. For the second season, "Mother" was played by Minerva Urecal. Associate producer Byron Kane portrayed Barney, the bartender; Kane was never credited for playing this role. Bill Chadney played Emmett, the piano player at Mother's. (Chadney and Albright married in 1961.) [1]
Both Billy Barty as pool hustler Babby and Herbert Ellis as Beat bistro owner, painter and sculptor Wilbur appeared in several episodes as occasional "information resources", as "Mother" also often is. Capri Candela played Wilbur's girlfriend Capri. Frequent director Robert Gist appeared as an actor in different roles in three episodes.
Adaptations
After the two-season run on NBC and the single season on ABC, Edwards made numerous attempts to revive the character in other media. A novel and a comic book were released in 1960. A feature film, Gunn, was made in 1967, and ABC carried a pilot in 1989 with Peter Strauss in the lead role, but they failed to catch on. In 2001, Edwards joined Norman Snider in developing an updated television series, but the project was scuttled when John Woo and David Permut began developing a big screen remake for Paramount. Both projects remain stuck in development.

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