4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 644

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Comic Description: Four Color #644 Universal
Grade: 9.2
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
Pedigree: File Copy
Certification #: 0220148009
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

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Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 1/1/2014
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

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Sir Walter Raleigh 8/55 File Copy Based on the 1955 Twentieth Century-Fox movie "The Virgin Queen."

Photo Cover: Sir Walter Raleigh (as played by Richard Todd, photo); Queen Elizabeth I (as played by Bette Davis, photo)
Pencils & Inks: Tony Sgroi

This copy is just the second best of seven graded to date. A singe 9.6 tops the census. 101/14. I bought this from “harleymarcopolo” on Ebay as a NM. I don’t think I’ll be buying from him again any time soon.

Table of Contents
1. 1. Sir Walter Raleigh
2. 2. Sir Walter RaleighThe story continues onto and is also the back cover of this issue.

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http://www.comics.org/issue/12153/

Wikipedia also notes the following about the movie:

The Virgin Queen is a 1955 historical drama film starring Bette Davis, Richard Todd and Joan Collins. It focuses on the relationship between Elizabeth I of England and Sir Walter Raleigh.
The film marks the second time Davis played the British monarch; the first was The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex. It was also the first Hollywood film for Australian actor Rod Taylor.[2]
Charles LeMaire and Mary Wills were nominated for the Academy Award for Costume Design. LeMaire won, but for another film, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing.
Plot
In 1581, Walter Raleigh (Richard Todd), recently returned from the fighting in Ireland, pressures unwilling tavern patrons into freeing from the mud the stuck carriage of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (Herbert Marshall). When Leicester asks how he can repay the kindness, Raleigh asks for an introduction to Queen Elizabeth I (Bette Davis), to whom Leicester is a trusted adviser. Leicester grants the request.
Elizabeth takes a great liking to Raleigh and his forthright manner, much to the disgust of her current favorite, Christopher Hatton (Robert Douglas). As the court ventures outside, Raleigh graciously drapes his cloak (an expensive item borrowed from a reluctant tailor) over some mud so that the Queen need not soil her shoes. At dinner, Raleigh reveals his dream of sailing to the New World to reap the riches there. Elizabeth decides to make him the captain of her personal guard. He enlists his Irish friend, Lord Derry (Dan O'Herlihy).
Meanwhile, Beth Throgmorton (Joan Collins), one of the Queen's ladies in waiting, very forwardly makes Raleigh's acquaintance. Raleigh's relationship with both ladies is stormy. Beth is jealous of his attentions to Elizabeth, while the Queen is often irritated by his independence and constant talk of the New World. Hatton does his best to inflame her annoyance, but she is too clever to be taken in.
When Hatton informs Elizabeth that an Irishman is a member of her guard, Raleigh is stripped of his captaincy when he protests that his friend is loyal and refuses to dismiss him. Banished from court, Raleigh takes the opportunity to secretly marry Beth. Soon after, however, he is restored to Elizabeth's favor.
Finally, Elizabeth grants Raleigh not the three ships he desires, but one. He enthusiastically sets about making modifications. In private, however, Elizabeth reveals within Beth's hearing that her intentions do not include him actually leaving England. When so informed, Raleigh makes plans to sail to North America without royal permission.
Hatton tells the Queen not only of Raleigh's plot, but also that he is married to Beth. Elizabeth orders the couple's arrest. Raleigh delays those sent to take him into custody so that Derry can try to take Beth into hiding in Ireland, but they are overtaken on the road, and Derry killed. Raleigh and Beth are sentenced to death, but in the end, Elizabeth releases them. They set sail for the New World.
[edit] Cast
• Bette Davis as Queen Elizabeth I
• Richard Todd as Sir Walter Raleigh
• Joan Collins as Elizabeth Throckmorton
• Jay Robinson as Chadwick
• Herbert Marshall as Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
• Dan O'Herlihy as Lord Derry
• Robert Douglas as Sir Christopher Hatton
• Romney Brent as French Ambassador
• Leslie Parrish as Anne
• Lisa Daniels as Mary

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Virgin_Queen_(1955_film)
 
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