4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 378

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #378 Universal
Grade: 7.0
Page Quality: CREAM TO OFF-WHITE
Certification #: 0806083002
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 9/27/2014
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Tom Corbet: Space Cadet # 1 02/1952 First of three Tom Corbett Space Cadet Four Colors. Based on the "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet" TV series. Of all the “series” found in Four Ciolor, this three issue Space Cadet group (378, 400 and 421) may be the toughest of all to find in higher grade. In the group there are 13 graded copies of 378 in the CGC census of those there is: 1-9.4, 1-8.5, 1-7.5, 4-7.0 the rest lower. 400 has just 9 graded copies: 1-9.2, 2-9.0, 2-8.5 the rest lower. 421 is the toughest of all: 7 graded copies; 1-9.0, 2-8.0, 2-7.5 the rest lower. All three have the historically tough black covers. I would love to have a better set, it just can’t be found…at least not yet.

Painted Cover: Alden McWilliams
Script: Paul S. Newman
Pencils & Inks: Alden McWilliams

Table of Contents

Tom Corbett Space Cadet
1. Space Academy: The University of the Planets!
Tom Corbett Space Cadet
2. [Training Flight to Titan]
Tom Corbett Space Cadet
3. Mars [Space Scene]


Wikipedia provides a great deal of added information about Sopace Cadet:

Tom Corbett is the main character in a series of Tom Corbett — Space Cadet stories that were depicted in television, radio, books, comic books, comic strips, and other media in the 1950s.
The stories followed the adventures of Corbett, Astro, originally Roger Manning and later T.J. Thistle, cadets at the Space Academy as they train to become members of the Solar Guard. The action takes place at the Academy in classrooms and bunkrooms, aboard their training ship the rocket cruiser Polaris, and on alien worlds, both within the solar system and in orbit around nearby stars.
Tom Corbett first appeared on television. The stories initially closely followed the scripts written for the unpublished newspaper comic strip Tom Ranger, Space Cadet, by Joseph Greene from 1949.[citation needed]
Tom Corbett is one of only six[citation needed] TV series to appear on all four networks of the time, along with The Arthur Murray Party, Down You Go, The Ernie Kovacs Show, Pantomime Quiz, and The Original Amateur Hour:
• CBS from October 2 to December 1950
• ABC from January 1951 to September 1952
• NBC from July to September 1951
• DuMont from August 1953 to May 1954
• NBC again from December 1954 to June 1955, with the final broadcast on June 25, 1955.
Books[edit]
1952–1956 published by Grosset & Dunlap. Written under the pseudonym Carey Rockwell, with Willy Ley as technical advisor.
1. Stand By For Mars (1952)
2. Danger in Deep Space (1953)
3. On the Trail of the Space Pirates (1953)
4. The Space Pioneers (1953)
5. The Revolt on Venus (1954)
6. Treachery in Outer Space (1954)
7. Sabotage in Space (1955)
8. The Robot Rocket (1956)
Comic strip
The Tom Corbett — Space Cadet comic strip, drawn in Milton Caniff style by Ray Bailey, ran Sunday and daily in American newspapers, from September 9, 1951 to September 6, 1953. Paul S. Newman scripted through February 8, 1953.
Comic books
The original Tom Corbett series was published by Dell Comics beginning in their 4-Color series. The 4-Color series was used to try out new story lines on the public to obtain feedback. If successful the series would be spun off to form its own title. Tom Corbett won his own title after three tryout issues. As the popularity of the television series waned, Dell stopped producing the comic book and the series was then taken up and produced by Prize Comics.
Dell Comics February 1952 – September–November 1954
• Titan Sabotage Dell 4-Color #378
• Space Pirates Dell 4-Color #400
• Colonist of Space Colony Io Dell 4-Color #421
• Lost Race of Asorians Tom Corbett #4
• The Smugglers of the Moon Tom Corbett #5
• Blue Men of Tara Tom Corbett #6
• The Space Traitor Tom Corbett #7
• Spaceship Graveyard Tom Corbett #8
• The World of Deep Waters Tom Corbett #9
• Asteroid Treasure Hunt Tom Corbett #10
• The Forbidden Forest Tom Corbett #11
• Slavers of Space March of Comics #102

Radio
The cast for the radio program was the same as for the television series. It ran from January 1, 1952 to June 26, 1952, initially in 15-minute segments three times a week and then as a half-hour show twice a week. A radio version produced in Australia used local actors…
Other media
There was a Tom Corbett — Space Cadet View-Master packet containing three reels. Its three-dimensional photographs were brilliantly colored but were taken of sculptures of the characters and models of the spacecraft and props. The story was of finding on the moon a miniature pyramid made by unknown aliens, which led to a clue on Mars, and finally to fighting interplanetary crooks in the asteroid belt.
There were also several coloring books; a punch-out book; a costume for children; a lunch box; a pocket watch; a Space Academy playset with plastic figures; a set of rubber molds for making plaster-of-Paris figures, furniture and vehicles, made by Marx toys; a Little Golden Book; and a Little Golden Record of the Space Academy song ("From the rocket fields of the academy/ to the far flung stars of outer space,/ we are space cadets training to be/ ready for dangers we may face"). Two other records presented Space Cadet adventures, starring the original TV/radio cast: "Tom Corbett Space Cadet at Space Academy" and "Rescue in Space: Tom Corbett, Space Cadet".
The back of boxes of Kellogg's Pep Cereal featured cardboard cutouts of a space cadet cap, gauntlets, and a ray gun, and the cereal company made a direct tie-in with the product Kellogg's Pep: The Solar Cereal.
The show was the subject of a parody, "Lawrence Fechtenberger, Interstellar Officer Candidate", a serial that made several appearances on programs of Bob and Ray.

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