4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 1354

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #1354 Universal
Grade: 9.0
Page Quality: WHITE
Certification #: 0206810019
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 3/20/2013
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Calvin and the Colonel 4-6/62 Based on the animated TV series "Calvin and the Colonel," created by Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, and inspired by their "Amos 'n' Andy" radio show. Continues as Calvin and the Colonel #2 (July-September 1962).

In 1962 issue 1354 marked the “end” of the Four Color run that began in 1939. It went out with a thud rather than a bang with almost unheard of characters Calvin and the Colonel. There are those that believe “missing” Four Color issues continued to # 1350. I hope to complete those as well.

Art and script work: Unidentifed

Table of Contents
1. 0. [no title indexed]
Calvin and the Colonel
2. 1. Duty Calls
Calvin and the Colonel
3. 2. The Dream House
Calvin and the Colonel
4. 3. 2's Company
Calvin and the Colonel
5. 4. Nationally Famous Prizes for You
Junior Sales Club of America
This issue has a cartoon strip on the back cover. There is a Junior Sales Club Edition as well.

Some data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license. http://www.comics.org/
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http://www.comics.org/issue/247887/

Wikipedia provides some modest additional information on this books source material:

Calvin and the Colonel is an animated cartoon television series in 1961 about Colonel Montgomery J. Klaxon, a shrewd fox and Calvin T. Burnside, a dumb bear. Their lawyer was Oliver Wendell Clutch, who was a weasel (literally). The colonel lived with his wife Maggie Belle and her sister Sue, who did not trust the colonel at all. Colonel Klaxon was in the real estate business, but always tried get-rich-quick schemes with Calvin's unwitting help.
The series was an animated remake of Amos 'n' Andy [or, more or less, "Andy and The Kingfish"] and featured the voices of Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll from the radio series (in fact, several of the original radio scripts by Joe Connelly & Bob Mosher were adapted for this series). Using animals avoided the touchy racial issues which had led to the downfall of Amos 'n' Andy.
Because of low ratings, the show was cancelled after two months, but returned two months later to complete the first season contract (and to fulfill Lever Brothers' agreement to sponsor the program; they originally sustained The Amos 'n' Andy Show on radio during the 1940s). For a year afterward reruns were seen on Saturday mornings, and eventually syndicated through the 1960s. It was also adapted as a comic book by Dell Comics, and as such the first of two issues was the final installment in the company's extremely prolific (more than 1,300 issues published) Four Color anthology series.
A brief sequence from the show was seen on a television set in a 1966 episode of The Munsters ("A Visit From Johann"), which was also produced by Connelly and Mosher.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_the_Colonel
 
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