4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 679

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #679 Universal
Grade: 9.4
Page Quality: CREAM TO OFF-WHITE
Certification #: 0805499001
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 3/5/2008
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Gunsmoke (#1) 2/56 With James Arness photo cover.

This is the single best copy out of 10 graded to date. (4/12).

Story list:

"His badge made him marshal ... but his gun made him the law!"

1. The Decoy

2. Colts for Hire
Interesting facts:

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West.

The radio version ran from 1952 to 1961, and John Dunning[1] writes that among radio drama enthusiasts "Gunsmoke is routinely placed among the best shows of any kind and any time." The television version ran for 20 seasons from 1955 to 1975, and was the United States' longest-running prime time, live-action drama with 635 episodes. In 2010, Law & Order tied this record of 20 seasons (but only 456 episodes). At the end of its run in 1975, Los Angeles Times columnist Cecil Smith wrote "Gunsmoke was the dramatization of the American epic legend of the west. Our own Iliad and Odyssey, created from standard elements of the dime novel and the pulp western as romanticized by Buntline, Harte, and Twain. It was ever the stuff of legend

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West.

The radio version ran from 1952 to 1961, and John Dunning[1] writes that among radio drama enthusiasts "Gunsmoke is routinely placed among the best shows of any kind and any time." The television version ran for 20 seasons from 1955 to 1975, and was the United States' longest-running prime time, live-action drama with 635 episodes. In 2010, Law & Order tied this record of 20 seasons (but only 456 episodes). At the end of its run in 1975, Los Angeles Times columnist Cecil Smith wrote "Gunsmoke was the dramatization of the American epic legend of the west. Our own Iliad and Odyssey, created from standard elements of the dime novel and the pulp western as romanticized by Buntline, Harte, and Twain. It was ever the stuff of legend

Dell Comics published numerous issues of their Four Color Comics series on Gunsmoke.[33] (including issues #679, 720, 769, 797, 844 and, in 1958–62, #6–27).[34]
Gold Key Comics continued with issues #1–6 in 1969–70.[33][35]
A comic strip version of the series ran in British newspapers for several years under the show's UK title, Gun Law.
Hard cover comic "BBC Gunsmoke Annuals" were marketed in Great Britain under the authority of the BBC who had broadcasting rights there.[36]
Gunsmoke comics in Spanish were published under the title "Aventura la ley del revolver"[37] ("Gun-Law Adventures").
  
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