4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 438

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Comic Description: Four Color #438 Universal
Grade: 9.6
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
Certification #: 0917573005
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 2/22/2014
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Annie Oakley (#1) 12/52 First of three Annie Oakley Four Colors. This is not based on the TV series, which didn't air until 1954.

Cover Art: Mike Arens
Pencils & Inks: Mike Arens and August Lenox

Table of Contents
1. 0. [no title indexed]
Annie Oakley
2. 1. The Western campfire
3. 2. Annie Oakley and the Death Brand
Annie Oakley
4. 3. Gunsight Gal
Annie Oakley

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Wikipedia offers additional information about the true to life Annie Oakley:

Annie Oakley (August 13, 1860 – November 3, 1926), born Phoebe Ann Moses,[1][2][3] was an American sharpshooter and exhibition shooter. Oakley's "amazing talent"[4] and timely rise to fame[5] led to a starring role in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, which propelled her to become the first American female superstar.
Perhaps Oakley's most famous trick was her ability to repeatedly split a playing card, edge-on, and put several more holes in it before it could touch the ground, while using a .22 caliber rifle, at 90 feet (27 m)…. Annie began trapping at a young age, and shooting and hunting by age eight to support her siblings and her widowed mother. She sold the hunted game for money to locals in Greenville, as well as restaurants and hotels in southern Ohio. Her skill eventually paid off the mortgage on her mother's farm when Annie was 15…. Shooting prowess[edit]
Biographers, such as K. Shirl, repeat Oakley's own story about her very first shot at the age of eight. "I saw a squirrel run down over the grass in front of the house, through the orchard and stop on a fence to get a hickory nut." Taking a rifle from the house, she fired at the squirrel, writing later that, "It was a wonderful shot, going right through the head from side to side".[22]
The Encyclopaedia Britannica notes that:
Oakley never failed to delight her audiences, and her feats of marksmanship were truly incredible. At 30 paces she could split a playing card held edge-on, she hit dimes tossed into the air, she shot cigarettes from her husband's lips, and, a playing card being thrown into the air, she riddled it before it touched the ground.[23]
RA. Koestler-Grack reports that, on March 19, 1884, she was being watched by Chief Sitting Bull when:
Oakley playfully skipped on stage, lifted her rifle, and aimed the barrel at a burning candle. In one shot, she snuffed out the flame with a whizzing bullet. Sitting Bull watched her knock corks off of bottles and slice through a cigar Butler held in his teeth.[24]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Oakley
 
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