4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 1179

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #1179 Universal
Grade: 9.6
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
Certification #: 0913880017
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 12/30/2010
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Walt Disney’s Swamp Fox 3-5/51

Photo Cover: Leslie Nielsen
Pencils & Inks: John Ushler

This copy is tied with one other as the second best of eleven copies graded to date. A single 9.8 stands atop the census. 05/13. I originally bought this graded, as is, from Heritage Auctions.

Table of Contents
1. 0. The Swamp Fox
The Swamp Fox
2. 1. Redcoat Rebel - Decision at Dawn
The Swamp Fox
3. 2. Redcoat Rebel
The Swamp Fox
4. 3. Decision at Dawn
The Swamp Fox
5. 4. The Medicine Makers
The Swamp Fox
6. 5. [no title indexed]
The Swamp Fox This is a single page cartoon and is also the back cover of this issue.
7. 6. Ad back variant There is an AD on the back of many copies of this issue.

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http://www.comics.org/issue/16581/

Not a monster hit, Wikipedia provides a modest amount of additional back ground on the series that this comic was based on:

The Swamp Fox is a television series produced by Walt Disney and starring Leslie Nielsen as American Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion.
The theme song *("Swamp Fox, Swamp Fox, tail on his hat... nobody knows where the Swamp Fox at...") was sung by Nielsen as well. Myron Healey played Marion's top aide, Maj./Col. Peter Horry. One of the Swamp Fox's adversaries was Colonel Banastre Tarleton, played by John Sutton. Patrick Macnee played a British captain, Tim Considine played Marion's nephew Gabe Marion and Slim Pickens played Plunkett, one of the Swamp Fox's men. Hal Stalmaster appeared in three of the eight episodes as "Gwynn." The Swamp Fox did not bring to Disney the commercial success that had been achieved by Davy Crockett.
The series encompassed eight episodes, running as part of The Wonderful World of Color. Episodes were presented on Sundays on ABC from 6:30-7:30 p.m. and were also broadcast by CBC Television.
In an episode of Mansbridge One on One, Nielsen revealed that, during its initial broadcast, The Swamp Fox was condemned by the Canadian House of Commons for portraying United Empire Loyalists as villains during the American Revolution. Nielsen pointed out the irony that he, a Canadian, starred in the only Disney production banned in Canada.
The Disney Channel reran Swamp Fox episodes in the 1980s and 1990s, while Nielsen was at the height of a second career as a white-haired comedy movie star. The first three episodes of the series were also released in 2005 on DVD (in a set including three episodes of The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca).
Ironically, the actual Francis Marion typically rode into battle with a regimental helmet and a Continental Army uniform rather than a tri-cornered hat.
• "Swamp Fox, Swamp Fox, tail on his hat... nobody knows where the Swamp Fox at; Swamp Fox, Swamp Fox, hiding in the glen, He'll ride away to fight again. Got no money, got no beds, got no roof above our heads; got no shelter when it rains, All we've got is Yankee brains!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swamp_Fox_(TV_series)
 
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