4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 1027

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #1027 Universal
Grade: 9.6
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
Pedigree: File Copy
Certification #: 0910887003
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 8/9/2008
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

The Texan (#1) 9-11/59 File Copy Based on the 1958-60 CBS TV series "The Texan."

Photo Cover: Bill Longley (as played by Rory Calhoun, photo)
Script: Bill Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils & Inks: Mel Keefer


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


Table of Contents
1. 1. [Preview]
The Texan
2. 2. Revenge In Rock River
The Texan
3. 3. Stage to Paradise
The Texan
4. 4. Towns with Many Faces
5. 5. [The "Invented" Bandits]
The Texan Also the back cover of this issue.

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http://www.comics.org/issue/15308/


The Texan was one of what seemed like an endless parade of TV Westerns , popular in the 50’s and 60’s. It only lasted two seasons, but was caught a few times on the pages of Four Color comics. Here is a bit more from the pages of Wikipedia:

The Texan is a Western television series starring popular B movie actor Rory Calhoun, which aired on the CBS television network from 1958 to 1960.

Production notes
In The Texan, Calhoun played Bill Longley, a Confederate captain from the American Civil War, who roams the American West to help people in need. Often the plot would center around Longley helping an old friend or a relative of an old friend. He was known by reputation as a fearsome gunfighter.
The fictitious Bill Longley of The Texan was in no way the real Bill Longley, an outlaw hanged in 1878 in Giddings in Lee County, Texas.
Calhoun formed Rorvic Productions with Victor Orsatti to co-produce The Texan in partnership with Desilu Productions, the production company founded by Lucille Ball and her first husband, Desi Arnaz, Sr.
The Texan ran for only two seasons. In the second half of the second season, it was preceded on the CBS schedule by Kate Smith's return to network television, her unsuccessful The Kate Smith Show. The first season, sponsored by Viceroy, was the better because in the second season, the network reused some of the material and footage from the first season. After the 79-episode run, Calhoun returned to starring and co-starring in "B" Westerns, and making occasional television appearances. Louis L'Amour wrote teleplays for several episodes.
In the 1960-1961 television season, rebroadcasts of The Texan ran on ABC daytime opposite CBS's As the World Turns and NBC's Make Room for Daddy.
On November 18, 2008, The Texan was released on DVD (70 of its original 78 episodes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Texan_(TV_series)
 
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