4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 874

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #874 Universal
Grade: 9.2
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
Pedigree: File Copy
Certification #: 0910811011
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 6/29/2009
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Walt Disney’s Old Ironside with Johnny Tremain 1/58 File Copy Painted Cover (Taylor Oughton). Based on a movie adaptation of Johnny Tremain.

Pencils and Inks: Dan Spiegle


This is currently tied with one other issue for the top spot out of seven copies graded to date.

Stories Include:

American Privateers
Old Ironsides
Words That Live Forever
The Eagle and the Poet (Also the back cover of this issue)

Wikipedia note the following facts about the movie, which has not survived history too well, though I did see it as a youth in the sixties, probably at school.

Johnny Tremain is a 1957 film made by Walt Disney Productions,[1] based on the 1944 Newbery Medal-winning children's novel of the same name by Esther Forbes, retelling the story of the years in Boston, Massachusetts prior to the outbreak of the American Revolution. The movie was directed by Robert Stevenson. It was made for television, then ultimately released to theatres, and finally wound up on television a year after that, on the Walt Disney anthology television series. It was shown on television in two episodes rather than as a complete film on a single evening. The song "Liberty Tree", with music by George Bruns and Lyrics by Tom Blackburn, became familiar, when the song was placed on the Disney Record album entitled "Happy Birthday and Other Holiday songs

Plot:

Johnny Tremain is an arrogant and exceptionally skilled apprentice silversmith to Mr. Lapham, who dreams of one day owning his own shop and becoming wealthy and respected. All of this is abruptly taken from him when his hand is damaged in a silver accident. He ends up joining the Sons of Liberty in the movement for American independence. Along the way Johnny befriends several historical giants including Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, and Joseph Warren. The story reaches its climax with the start of the American Revolutionary War and the actions taken by so many notable figures of the time to lead a young America into her first battles.

Legacy
After the movie was released, Walt Disney intended to build Liberty Street in Disneyland as an annex to Main Street USA. However, the project was never realized. Years later after Walt's death, the concept was revived and turned into the much more expansive Liberty Square in Walt Disney World, which opened on October 1, 1971.
Furthermore, an elm tree found on the Disney property (originally 6 miles from where the Magic Kingdom is located) was moved & transplanted by Disney engineers and now serves as the square's Liberty Tree. Adorning the tree are 13 lanterns, representing the original 13 American colonies.[3]
Louis Marx and Company released an American War of Independence playset featuring character figures of the actors in the show as a film tie-in.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Tremain_(film)
 
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