4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 1071

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #1071 Universal
Grade: 9.6
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE
Pedigree: File Copy
Certification #: 0780330008
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 2/28/2008
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

The Real McCoys 1-3/60 File Copy First of four The Real McCoys Four Colors. Based on the 1957-63 TV series "The Real McCoys."

Photo Cover: Grandpa Amos McCoy (photo of Walter Brennan); Little Luke McCoy (photo of Michael Winkleman)
Script: Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils & Inks: Alex Toth

This is the single best of seven copies graded to date. 02/13. I originally bought this copy graded, as is, from Heritage Auctions.


Table of Contents
1. 1. Wild Wheels / Getting Grandpa's Goat
The Real McCoys
2. 2. Wild Wheels
The Real McCoys
3. 3. Getting Grandpa's Goat
The Real McCoys
4. 4. The Think-Alikes
The Real McCoys
5. 5. Dad! New Target Special Family BB Rifle!
Daisy Manufacturing Company
6. 6. Fair Measure
The Real McCoys
7. 7. The Apology
The Real McCoys This is the back cover on some copies of this issue.
8. 8. Bob's Christmas Gift!
Daisy Manufacturing Company This is on the back cover of this and other copies.

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The Real McCoys ran six seasons topping out at number 5 in the Neilson ratings. Wikipedia provides more below:

The Real McCoys is an American situation comedy co-produced by Danny Thomas' "Marterto Productions", in association with Walter Brennan and Irving Pincus' "Westgate" company. The series aired for five seasons on the ABC-TV network from 1957 through 1962 and then for its final year on CBS from 1962 to 1963.
The series, set in the San Fernando Valley of California, was filmed in Hollywood at Desilu studios.

The Real McCoys revolves around the lives of a mountain family who originally hailed from fictional Smokey Corners, West Virginia. The McCoys moved to California and became dirt farmers. The family consisted of Grandpa Amos McCoy (Walter Brennan); his grandson Luke (Richard Crenna), Luke's new bride Kate (Kathleen Nolan), Luke's teenage sister Hassie (Lydia Reed), and his 11-year-old brother, Little Luke (Michael Winkelman). The double-naming of the brothers was explained in the first episode by the elder Luke: Because their parents were so excited over the birth of the younger boy, "they forgot all about me!" Brennan, Crenna, Nolan, Reed and Winkelman appeared in 223, 224, 162, 146, and 158 episodes, respectively; only Crenna was in every segment.
The McCoys' farm had previously been owned by an uncle, Ben McCoy, who died. The former West Virginians joined the Grange farm association and acquired a Mexican farm hand named Pepino Garcia, played by the Puerto Rican-born Tony Martinez. In the episode which aired on January 8, 1962, Pepino becomes an American citizen and takes the surname name "McCoy". The MacMichaels, a brother and sister combination played by Andy Clyde and Madge Blake in twenty-nine and twenty-one episodes, respectively, lived on the hill not far from the McCoys. Amos McCoy and George MacMichael, both rather devious individuals, would sometimes quarrel, particularly over their games of horseshoes. Kate was friendly with Flora MacMichael, George's sister, and became involved with life in the community. Though still in her twenties, Kate served as a mother figure for Luke's younger siblings, Hassie and Little Luke, and one episode shows her bewilderment in trying to entice the children to take responsibility for their school studies. Many episodes have a moral theme consistent with the conservative views of Walter Brennan, such as two 1957 segments entitled "You Can't Cheat an Honest Man" with Joseph Kearns, later of Dennis the Menace, and "Gambling Is a Sin," in which Amos allows a casino to advertise on McCoy property before the ethics of the matter is brought to his attention. Other such episodes are "Go Fight City Hall", "The Taxman Cometh," "You Can't Always Be a Hero", "You Never Get Too Old," "Where There's a Will", "Beware a Smart Woman", "Money in the Bank", "How to Win Friends," "You're As Young As You Feel", "Honesty Is the Best Policy", and "Never a Lender Be".
Cancellation
For its first three seasons, The Real McCoys was the lead-in program on the ABC Thursday lineup for The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, which aired from 1957-60. The Pat Boone series was succeeded in 1960 by Fred MacMurray in My Three Sons. For several seasons, The Real McCoys followed The Donna Reed Show.
Although the series had ranked in the Top 10 the entire time it was on ABC, it fell into disfavor after being sold to CBS. It was cancelled in the summer of 1963. Factors in the cancellation were the changes in the series (the death of the character Kate), its new Sunday evening time slot opposite NBC's Bonanza, and CBS's concentration on another rural show, Buddy Ebsen's The Beverly Hillbillies, which had become the #1 entry on television.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_mccoys
 
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