4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 851

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #851 Universal
Grade: 9.2
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
Pedigree: File Copy
Certification #: 0157873001
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 6/10/2009
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

The Story of Mankind 1/58 File Copy Photo Cover:

Napoleon (photo of Dennis Hopper); Marc Antony (photo of Helmut Dantine); Cleopatra (photo of Virginia Mayo); Old Scratch [The Devil] (photo of Vincent Price); The Spirit of Man (photo of Ronald Colman); Queen Elizabeth I (photo of Agnes Moorehead); Joan of Arc (photo of Hedy Lamarr)

The second best of four copies graded to date.

This is an incredible film featuring one star after another and many last appearances. Wikipedia notes:
Scientists have developed a weapon, called the "Super H-bomb", which if detonated will wipe out the human race entirely. A "High Tribunal" in "The Great Court of Outer Space" is called upon to decide whether divine intervention should be allowed to stop the bomb's detonation. The Devil (Vincent Price), who goes by the name of Mr. Scratch, prosecutes mankind while the Spirit of Man (Ronald Colman) defends it.
Price and Colman are allowed to take the tribunal to any period of time to present evidence for mankind's salvation or damnation. They take the tribunal from prehistory through Egyptian, Greco-Roman, medieval, Renaissance, Enlightenment and modern times, looking at historical figures played by a host of guest stars.

The incredible cast is as follows:

• Ronald Colman as The Spirit of Man
• Vincent Price as The Devil
• Hedy Lamarr as Joan of Arc
• Groucho Marx as Peter Minuit
• Harpo Marx as Sir Isaac Newton
• Chico Marx as Monk
• Virginia Mayo as Cleopatra
• Agnes Moorehead as Queen Elizabeth I
• Peter Lorre as Nero
• Charles Coburn as Hippocrates
• Sir Cedric Hardwicke as High Judge
• Cesar Romero as Spanish Envoy
• John Carradine as Khufu
• Dennis Hopper as Napoleon Bonaparte
• Marie Wilson as Marie Antoinette
• Helmut Dantine as Marc Antony
• Edward Everett Horton as Sir Walter Raleigh
• Reginald Gardiner as William Shakespeare
• Marie Windsor as Joséphine de Beauharnais
• George E. Stone as Waiter
• Cathy O'Donnell as Early Christian Woman
• Franklin Pangborn as Marquis de Varennes
• Melville Cooper as Major Domo
• Henry Daniell as Bishop Cauchon
• Francis X. Bushman as Moses
• Jim Ameche as Alexander Graham Bell
• David Bond as Early Christian
• Nick Cravat as Devil's Assistant
• Dani Crayne as Helen of Troy
• Richard H. Cutting as Court Attendant
• Anthony Dexter as Christopher Columbus
• Toni Gerry as Wife
• Austin Green as Abraham Lincoln
• Eden Hartford as Laughing Water
• Alexander Lockwood as Promoter
• Melinda Marx as Early Christian Child
• Bart Mattson as Cleopatra's Brother
• Don Megowan as Early Man
• Marvin Miller as Armana
• Nancy Miller as Early Woman
• Leonard Mudie as Chief Inquisitor
• Burt Nelson as Second Early Man
• Tudor Owen as High Tribunal Clerk
• Ziva Rodann as Egyptian Concubine
• Harry Ruby as Indian Brave
• William Schallert as Earl of Warwick
• Reginald Sheffield as Julius Caesar
• Abraham Sofaer as Indian Chief
• Bobby Watson as Adolf Hitler
• Sam Harris as Nobleman in Queen Elizabeth's Court (uncredited)
• Angelo Rossitto as Dwarf in Nero's Court (uncredited)
• Paul Zastupnevich as Apprentice (uncredited
 
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