4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 869

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Comic Description: Four Color #869 Universal
Grade: 9.4
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE
Pedigree: File Copy
Certification #: 0911793003
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

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

Owner's Description

Walt Disney’s Old Yeller 1/58 File Copy Photo cover: Old Spike-Old Yeller and Tommy Kirk.

Based on the 1957 Disney film “Old Yeller”.

All artwork: Dan Spiegle

This is tied with one other copy for the top census issue out of only three graded to date. 10/12

Old Yeller was a childhood favorite for many years, both in book and movie format. I remember very well crying as this movie was coming to a close. They just don’t make them like this anymnore.

Wikipedia provides a deal of background on the movie and book below:

Old Yeller is the title character and a 1957 Walt Disney Productions film starring Tommy Kirk, Dorothy McGuire and Beverly Washburn, and directed by Robert Stevenson. It is about a boy and a stray dog in post-Civil War Texas. The story is based upon the 1956 Newbery Honor-winning book Old Yeller by Fred Gipson. Gipson also co-wrote the screenplay with William Tunberg. The success of Old Yeller led to a sequel, Savage Sam, which was also based on a Gipson book.

] Reception and legacy
Bosley Crowther in the December 26, 1957 New York Times praised the film's performers and called the film "a nice little family picture" that was a "lean and sensible screen transcription of Fred Gipson's children's book." He noted that the film was a "warm, appealing little rustic tale [that] unfolds in lovely color photography. Sentimental, yes, but also sturdy as a hickory stick."[1]
The movie went on to become an important cultural film for baby boomers,[2] with Old Yeller's death in particular being remembered as one of the most tearful scenes in cinematic history. It currently has a rating of 94% on Rotten Tomatoes.[3] One critic cited it as "among the best, if not THE best" of the boy-and-his-dog films.[4] Critic Jeff Walls wrote:
Old Yeller, like The Wizard of Oz and Star Wars, has come to be more than just a movie; it has become a part of our culture. If you were to walk around asking random people, you would be hard-pressed to find someone who did not know the story of Old Yeller, some who didn’t enjoy it or someone who didn’t cry. The movie’s ending has become as famous as any other in film history."[5]


See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Yeller_(1957_film)

Stories include:
The Day Began ...
Walt Disney's Old Yeller
Hound from a Pound
Canine Heroes of the Frontier (Also the back cover of this issue)
 
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