4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 971

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #971 Universal
Grade: 9.4
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE
Pedigree: File Copy
Certification #: 0781283012
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 1/12/2009
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Wagon Train 2/59 File Copy

Photo Cover: Ward Bond and Robert Horton
Art and script credits: Unknown

This copy is tied with one other for second best of nine copies graded to date. Wagon Train ran on TV for eight seasons and peaked at # 1 in 1961-62. The list of guest stars alone is large to list here. See more in the Wikipedia generated info below: Rolling West story is the back cover of this copy.

Wagon Train is an American Western series that ran on NBC from 1957–62 and then on ABC from 1962–65, although the network also aired daytime repeats, as Major Adams, Trailmaster and Trailmaster (post-1961 episodes without original series lead Ward Bond), from January 1963 to September 1965. The show debuted at #15 in the Nielsen ratings, rose to #2 in the next three seasons, and peaked at #1 in the 1961–62 television season. After moving to ABC in the autumn of 1962, the ratings began to decline, and Wagon Train did not again make the Top 20 listing.
The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series.
The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail (1930) starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagon_Train
 
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