4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 1102

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #1102 Universal
Grade: 9.4
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE
Pedigree: File Copy
Certification #: 0085622005
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 12/23/2008
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Wanted: Dead or Alive (#1) 5-7/60 File Copy Based on the "Wanted: Dead or Alive!" TV series.

Photo Cover: Josh Randall (as played by Steve McQueen, photo)
Pencils & Inks: Albert Micale


This is tied with obne other copy as the best of seven graded to date. 03/13. I originally bought this copy graded, as is, from Heritage Auctions.

Table of Contents
1. 0. [Payment Delayed]
Wanted: Dead Or Alive!
2. 1. Payment Delayed / Badman in Blue
Wanted: Dead or Alive!
3. 2. Payment Delayed
Wanted: Dead Or Alive!
4. 3. Bounty Hunters of the Sierra
5. 4. Badman In Blue
Wanted: Dead Or Alive!
6. 5. The Man Hunt
Wanted: Dead Or Alive!
7. 6. This is a Kangarooseal
Kraft Caramels Also the back cover of this copy. There may be alternate single story feature cover backs as well for this issue.

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http://www.comics.org/issue/15905/

Wanted : Dead or Alive was a Western TV series. Wikipedia documents additional facts including the impact of the series on McQueen’s career.

Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on CBS for three seasons from 1958-1961. The black-and-white program was a spin-off of a March 1958 episode of Trackdown, a 1957-1959 western series starring Robert Culp. Both series were produced by Four Star Television in association with CBS Television.
The series launched McQueen into becoming the first television star to cross over into comparable status on the big screen.[1]
Synopsis
McQueen's character of Josh Randall is a Confederate veteran and bounty hunter with a soft heart. He often donates his earnings to the needy and helps his prisoners if they have been wrongly accused. Randall carries a shortened Winchester Model 1892 carbine, called the "Mare's Leg," in a holster patterned after "gunslinger" rigs then popular in movies and television. Randall had the ability to draw and fire this gun with blazing speed, as fast as, or in many cases much faster than, his adversaries with handguns that were much smaller.
Guest stars
Guest stars included Jay North, Noah Beery, Jr., Lon Chaney, Jr., James Best, James Coburn, John Dehner, Alan Hale, Jr., DeForest Kelley, Michael Landon, Warren Oates, Luana Patten, Suzanne Storrs, and William Schallert.
[edit] Production notes
The series was filmed in black and white at the Selznick Studios and produced by Four Star Television. Writers included Samuel A. Peeples and Charles Beaumont.
The first season theme song was written and conducted by Bill Loose. It was replaced by a new theme titled "Wanted". This theme was used until the end of the series and was written and conducted by Herschel Burke Gilbert.
[edit] Ratings
• October 1958-April 1959: #16 - 28.0 (tied with Peter Gunn)
• October 1959-April 1960: #9 - 28.7
• October 1960-April 1961: Not in Top 30
[edit] Colorized version
In December 1987, Four Star International colorized Wanted: Dead or Alive making it the first vintage TV series to be completely colorized; the colorized version aired on at least 50 independent television stations
1987 film
In 1987, New World Pictures adapted the series into a low-budget film of the same name;[4] Rutger Hauer played modern-day bounty hunter Nick Randall, Josh's grandson.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanted:_Dead_or_Alive_(TV_series)
 
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