4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 997

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #997 Universal
Grade: 9.2
Page Quality: CREAM TO OFF-WHITE
Certification #: 0081148013
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 4/10/2008
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Walt Disney Presents Tales of Texas, John Slaughter (#1) 6-8/59

Photo Cover: John Slaughter (played by Tom Tryon) and Elfego Baca (played by Robert Loggia)
Script: Stan Jones, Richard Dehr and Frank Miller
Pencils: John Ushler and Dan Spiegle
Inks: John Ushler and Dan Spiegle

This is the second best of just three copies graded to date. 01/13. I originally bought this copy graded, as is, from Heritage Auctions.

Table of Contents
1. 1. [As settlers move west ...]
2. 2. [In the year 1870, a young stranger rides ...]
Tales of Texas John Slaughter
3. 3. The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca
Elfego Baca
4. 4. Texas John Slaughter
Texas John Slaughter
5. 5. The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca
Elfego Baca
6. 6. Walt Disney Presents Two Men Also the back cover of this copy

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Here is a bit more data gathered on Wikipediua:

Texas John Slaughter is a television series run from 1958 to 1961 as part of the Wonderful World of Disney, starring Tom Tryon in the title role. The character was based upon an actual historical figure, Texas Ranger John Slaughter. Tryon memorably wore an enormous white cowboy hat with the brim pinned up in the front as part of his costume for the series. The beginning theme song for the series included the lines: "Texas John Slaughter made 'em do what they oughta, and if they didn't, they died." Tryon later became a novelist.
John Vivyan appeared twice on the series in the role of dishonest rancher Jason Hemp and a third time in an uncredited part. Other co-stars were Darryl Hickman and Bing Russell. Chris Alcaide and Judson Pratt appeared as an outlaw and as Colonel Cooper, respectively, in the segment "Ambush in Laredo".
It aired in re-runs on the Disney Channel's classic program block "Disney Drive-In" which was later known as "Vault Disney".
Elfago Baca was a real badass from the late 1800.

Elfego Baca (February 10, 1865 – August 27, 1945) was a gunman, lawman, lawyer, and politician in the closing days of the American wild west. Baca was born in Socorro, New Mexico just before the end of the American Civil War to Francisco and Juana Maria Baca. His family moved to Topeka, Kansas when he was a young child. Upon his mother’s death in 1880, Baca returned with his father to Belen, New Mexico where his father became a marshal.
In 1884, at age 19, Baca stole some guns, bought a mail-order sheriff’s badge, and more or less appointed himself deputy sheriff in Socorro County, New Mexico.
His goal in life was to be a peace officer. He wanted, he said, “the outlaws to hear my steps a block away.” Southwestern New Mexico at the time was still relatively sparsely settled cattle ranching country. Cowboys roamed the land and did as they pleased. They might come into a town, drink at the saloon, harass the locals, and then shoot up the town out of boredom. Baca meant to put an end to that.
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