4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 676

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #676 Universal
Grade: 9.4
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE
Pedigree: File Copy
Certification #: 0780736006
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 3/20/2008
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Will-Yum! 2/56 File Copy.

Tied with two others for the best of five copies graded to date. (4/12)

Stories include:

1. [Foreword] (inside front cover)

2. The Secret Five

3. Will-Yum Cures the Patient

4. Madeline Gets Her Man! (Nearly)

5. The Runaways

6. The Big Race (inside back cover)

7. Ice Cream Man

8. [Untitled story on back cover]

Interesting note:

Dave Gerard (June 18, 1909 - August 31, 2003) was a prolific magazine humor cartoonist from the 1940s through the 1960s, most notably for Collier's Weekly, Country Gentleman, and The Saturday Evening Post.

Gerard was a 1931 graduate of Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana.[1] He was among the Crawfordsville-area cartoonists known as “The Sugar Crick Art School,” Bill Holman perhaps being the most famous of the group.[2]

Between 1953 and 1966, Gerard drew the newspaper comic strip Will-Yum. Will-Yum was also featured in a Dell comic book. Gerard was also the creator of Citizen Smith, a strip that featured an everyman beset by everyday frustrations; this work appeared in The Indianapolis Star in the 1970s and 1980s.[3]

Dave Gerard was the mayor of Crawfordsville, Indiana, from 1972 to 1976
  
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