4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 662

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #662 Universal
Grade: 9.4
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE
Pedigree: File Copy
Certification #: 0910893003
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 9/15/2009
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Marlin Perkin's Zoo Parade. 11/55 File Copy. Who over age 50 does not remember Marlin Perkins and the Mutual of Omaha?

This copy is tied with two others for the best of five copies in total, graded to date. (4/12).

Stories include;

1. The Zoo and Its Director (full text article inside front cover)
2. The African Lion
3. The Gorilla
4. The African Elephant
5. The Echidna
6. The Bald Eagle
7. The Canada Goose
8. Bird of Paradise
9. The Albatross
10. The Ostrich
11. The Galapgos Turtle
12. The Alligator
13. The Chameleon
14. Capturing Wild Animals Alive (text with illustrations inside back cover)
15. Tree of Life (on back cover)



Interesting info:

Perkins was the host of Zoo Parade, a television program that originated from the Lincoln Park Zoo when he was the director there. During a rehearsal of Zoo Parade, he was bitten by a timber rattlesnake, one of several bites from venomous snakes Perkins suffered throughout his career (over the years he was also bitten by a cottonmouth and a Gaboon viper). Although the incident occurred during a pre-show rehearsal and was not filmed, it has become something of an urban legend, with many people "remembering" seeing Perkins receive the bite on television.[2]

As a result of his work on Zoo Parade Perkins was offered the job in 1963 for which most Americans remember him: host of the famed nature show Wild Kingdom. The enormous fame he gained in his television career allowed Perkins to become an advocate for the protection of endangered species, and through Wild Kingdom he gave many Americans their first exposure to the conservation movement. Perkins also helped establish The Wild Canid Survival and Research Center (WCSRC) near St. Louis in 1971. This wolf sanctuary has been instrumental in breeding wolves for eventual re-placement in to their natural habitats.[3]

Perkins retired from active zookeeping in 1970 and from Wild Kingdom in 1985 for health reasons. Perkins remained with the Saint Louis Zoo as Director Emeritus[3] until his death on June 14, 1986, when he died of cancer.

Because Walt Disney had fabricated footage of a mass suicide of lemmings in its film White Wilderness,[4] then CBC journalist Bob McKeown asked Marlin Perkins if he had done the same. Perkins, then in his seventies, "firmly asked for the camera to be turned off, then punched a shocked McKeown in the face." [5]

In 1990, Marlin Perkins was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame. A statue of Perkins also stands in Central Park in his hometown of Carthage, Missouri.
  
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