4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 937

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #937 Universal
Grade: 9.6
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
Pedigree: File Copy
Certification #: 0719032018
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 3/23/2013
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Ruff and Reddy 9/58 (#!) Also the first Hannah-Barbera comic book ever published.

Cover and all Interior Art: Harvey Eisenberg

This is the single best copy of eleven copies graded to date. 04/13. I originally bought this copy graded, as is, from Metropolis Comics.


Table of Contents
1. 1. Scary Safari
Ruff & Reddy
2. 2. The Bear Brawl
Ruff & Reddy
3. 3. Dogcatcher Dilemma
Ruff & Reddy
4. 4. [untitled]
Ruff & Reddy The back cover of this copy has the Wrigley’s Gum “Have Fun Safely” ad. Some copies may have an additional carton back cover.

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Additional data from Wikipedia:

The Ruff & Reddy Show is a Hanna-Barbera animated series starring Ruff, a straight and smart cat voiced by Don Messick, and Reddy, a dumb and stupid dog voiced by Daws Butler. First broadcast in December 1957 on NBC, it was the first television show produced by Hanna-Barbera and presented by Screen Gems, the television arm of Columbia Pictures (now Sony Pictures Television).

History
William Hanna and Joseph Barbera entered the television field fresh from serving as the heads of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animation department, which shut down in June 1957. Unlike its successor The Huckleberry Hound Show, Ruff and Reddy featured a live action host, Jimmy Blaine (an announcer at WNBC Radio, New York), and various theatrical cartoons from Columbia Pictures' Screen Gems library including The Fox and the Crow and Li'l Abner filling up the rest of the half-hour.
Messick's "Ruff" voice characterization was very similar to the one he would later use for Pixie the mouse. Messick spoke in his natural voice when acting as narrator, as he would later do in the Yogi Bear cartoons. Butler used his tried-and-true southern drawl for "Reddy", a voice that would later become mainly identified with Huckleberry Hound. A supporting character in some episodes was the tiny-sized Professor Gizmo (also voiced by Don Messick). Villains Ruff and Reddy faced included "Scary" Harry Safari (Daws Butler, a characterization similar to Beany and Cecil's Dishonest John), Captain Greedy and Salt Water Daffy (Daws Butler and Don Messick) and western outlaws Killer and Diller (Daws Butler and Don Messick).
The show's episodes borrowed from the serialized storytelling format of such shows as Crusader Rabbit by making extensive use of cliffhanger storylines. Don Messick was narrator. The episodes were not much longer than four minutes, including an opening song and much repetition of preceding events. There were 13 episodes in each of the 7 stories of the serials. The show was only a moderate success, since it was harder for children to grasp the cliffhangers in the series.
Ruff and Reddy was originally broadcast in black and white until fall 1958, when it went to color, although all of the animated episodes were filmed in color from the start. Actor/singer and Storyteller Jimmy Blaine served as the series' first emcee, with Puppeteers Rufus Rose and Bobby Nicholson providing comedic relief as Rhubarb the Parrot and Jose the Toucan.
NBC initially cancelled the show at the end of the 1959-1960 season, later reviving it in the spring of 1962 (although the Ruff and Reddy segments were repeats) with Captain Bob Cottle as the second and last live-action host. When NBC finally cancelled the series in September 1964, Screen Gems syndicated the cartoons to local TV stations. Warner Bros. Television now owns the distribution rights to the series.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruff_and_Reddy

Hannah-Barbera:

Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. (pron.: /?hæn? b?r'b?r?/) was an American animation studio that dominated American television animation for nearly three decades in the mid-to-late 20th century.
The company was originally formed in 1957 by former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) animation directors William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and live-action director George Sidney in partnership with Columbia Pictures' Screen Gems television division as H-B Enterprises, Inc..[1] Established after MGM shut down its animation studio and ended production of its animated short films (such as the popular Tom and Jerry series), H-B Enterprises, Inc. was renamed Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. in 1959. Over the next four decades, the studio produced many successful animated shows, including The Huckleberry Hound Show, The Quick Draw McGraw Show, The Flintstones, The Yogi Bear Show, Top Cat, The Jetsons, The Magilla Gorilla Show, Jonny Quest, Space Ghost, Wacky Races, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, Super Friends and The Smurfs among others.
 
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