4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 404

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #404 Universal
Grade: 9.0
Page Quality: CREAM TO OFF-WHITE
Pedigree: File Copy
Certification #: 0212102011
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 7/16/2013
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

The Range Rider (#1) 6/52 File Copy Adapted from the 1951-53 TV series "The Range Rider". Title continues as Flying A's Range Rider #2 (June-August 1952).

Photo Cover: Jock Mahoney (as Range Rider, photo)
Pencils& Inks: Till Goodan (signed) and Bob Schoenke

Table of Contents
1. 0. [no title indexed]
Range Rider
2. 1. The Stagecoach
3. 2. Range Rider and the Monster of the Desert
Range Rider
4. 3. Range Rider and the Killer of Rio Hondo
Range Rider

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Wikipedia provides additional data on the original TV series! For a two year run there was an impressive list of guest stars.

The Range Rider is an American Western television series that aired in syndication from 1951 to 1953. A single lost episode surfaced and was broadcast in 1959. The Range Rider was also broadcast on British television during the 1960s, and in Melbourne, Australia during the 1950s.

Synopsis[edit]
Jock Mahoney, later star of CBS's Yancy Derringer, played the title character in seventy-nine black-and-white half-hour episodes, along with partner Dick West, played by Dick Jones, later star of the syndicated series Buffalo Bill Jr. The character had no name other than Range Rider. His reputation for fairness, fighting ability, and accuracy with his guns was known far and wide, even by Indians. Mahoney towered over Jones, conveying the idea that Dick West was a youth rather than a full-grown adult.
Stanley Andrews, the first host of the syndicated anthology series, Death Valley Days, appeared in seventeen episodes of The Range Rider in different roles, including "Pack Rat" and "Marked for Death" in 1951 and "Marshal from Madero" in 1953. Gregg Barton similarly guest starred in sixteen episodes. Harry Lauter, later a co-star with Willard Parker on CBS's Tales of the Texas Rangers, appeared eleven times, including the episodes "Ten Thousand Reward" and "Dim Trails" (both in 1951), "Ambush in Coyote Canyon" (1952), and "Convict at Large" and "Marshal from Madero" (both in 1953). William Fawcett, prior to NBC's Fury, guest starred in nine episodes, including in "Diablo Posse", as Matt Ryan in "Last of the Pony Express", "Dim Trails" (all 1951), and "Shotgun Stage" (1952).[1]
The show was a production of Gene Autry's Flying A Productions, and Autry himself was the executive producer. The theme tune was "Home on the Range" though in later episodes this was played at a fast tempo without the song. The two main characters were the only consistent ones. Five to six names of other actors were given at the end of each episode, but not the parts they played.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Range_Rider
 
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