4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 1142

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #1142 Universal
Grade: 9.8
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE
Pedigree: File Copy
Certification #: 0780329017
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 3/2/2008
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Johnny Ringo 11/59-01/60 File Copy Based on the "Johnny Ringo" TV series.

Photo Cover: Johnny Ringo (as played by Don Durant, photo); Deputy Cully (as played by Mark Goddard, photo)
Pencils & Inks: Dan Spiegle

This is the single best copy of 11 graded to date. 04/13. I originally bought this graded, as is, through Heritage Auctions.


Table of Contents
1. 0. ["Johnny uses outlaw bait to trap a lawless gang!"]
Johnny Ringo
2. 1. Break-Out / Showdown in Sonora
Johnny Ringo
3. 2. Break-Out
Johnny Ringo
4. 3. Young Gun
Johnny Ringo
5. 4. Showdown in Sonora
Johnny Ringo
6. 5. Word from Home
7. 6. The Strangest Gun in the West
Johnny Ringo This is the back cover of this issue.
I am not sure a variant copy with an AD back exists for this issue.

Some data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license. http://www.comics.org/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
http://www.comics.org/issue/201826/

This show aired for just six months despite decent ratings. There were 30 Western Shows on at the time. Wikipedia provides some additional interesting details about the show the comic was based on:

Johnny Ringo is an American Western television series starring Don Durant that aired on CBS from October 1, 1959, until June 30, 1960. It is loosely based on the life of the notorious gunfighter and outlaw Johnny Ringo, also known as John Peters Ringo or John B. Ringgold, who tangled with Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Buckskin Franklin Leslie.

Synopsis
This fictional account has Ringo putting aside his gunfighting ways to become the 27-year-old sheriff of fictitious Velardi in the Arizona Territory. Ringo has two deputies: William Charles, Jr., or Cully, played by Mark Goddard and Case Thomas, portrayed by Terence De Marney, who is also a storekeeper and formerly the town drunk. Case is killed in a robbery in the episode "Border Town", which aired on March 17, 1960. Case's daughter, Laura Thomas, played by Karen Sharpe, is Ringo's girlfriend in the series. Michael Hinn appeared in nine episodes as George Haig.
The program was an early creation of Aaron Spelling for Four Star Television. Spelling created Johnny Ringo at the specific request of Dick Powell as a role for Durant. It was filmed at CBS Studio Center. The pilot episode was shot as part of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, titled "Man Alone" and featured Thomas Mitchell as Case Thomas. A second pilot was shot with Terence de Marney in the role.
In the episode entitled "The Posse", Richard Devon plays Jessie Mead, a former Ringo friend who storms into town asking that he be jailed for protection from a pursuing posse, which Mead claims is really a lynch mob. Mead breaks a storefront glass to compel Ringo to arrest him. Actually, Mead has conspired with three others to rob the bank while the townspeope are diverted from their regular activities to pressure Ringo into turning Mead over to "the posse", the members of which are the other criminals. Ringo urges caution, but the irate townspeople want to take the matter into their own hands.[1]
Production notes
Johnny Ringo appeared at a time in the history of the television Western when creators strove to make characters interesting by equipping them with "gimmick guns", the three most famous having been Josh Randall's "mare's laig" used by Steve McQueen in CBS's Wanted: Dead or Alive, Lucas McCain's trick rifle from ABC's The Rifleman, and the shotgun with the upper and lower barrel, intended to enforce accuracy both up close and at a distance, used by Scott Brady in Shotgun Slade.
The gimmick gun introduced in the second pilot was a custom-built revolver called the LeMat, based on its historically authentic counterpart. The Le Mat featured an auxiliary shotgun barrel under its primary barrel. Many episodes found Ringo getting into scrapes where that final round in the shotgun barrel was the deciding factor. Aesthetically, Ringo's LeMat most resembles the historical percussion model LeMat but features a top break cartridge-fed design.
[edit] Reception
Johnny Ringo scored good ratings in its Thursday competition with ABC's The Real McCoys with Walter Brennan, sometimes reaching into the Top Twenty. The program was dropped at the request of a sponsor, Johnson Wax Company, which wanted a sitcom, rather than a Western. At the time there were thirty Western series on the networks.
For syndicated reruns, the show was combined with three other Western series from the same company, Black Saddle starring Peter Breck, Law of the Plainsman starring Michael Ansara, and Sam Peckinpah's critically acclaimed creation, The Westerner starring Brian Keith, under the umbrella title The Westerners, with additional hosting segments featuring Keenan Wynn.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Ringo_(TV_series)
 
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