4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 954

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #954 Universal
Grade: 9.2
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE
Pedigree: File Copy
Certification #: 0910810007
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 6/29/2009
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Walt Disney’s Man in Space: Satellites 2/59 File Copy

Painted Cover: Artist unidentified
Script: Don Christensen
Pencils & Inks: Tony Sgroi

This copy is tied with three other copiues as the second best copies of eleven graded to date. A single 9.8 tops the census. 01/13. I originally bought this, as is, from Heritage Auctions.


Table of Contents
1. 1. Launching the Earth Satellite
2. 2. Satellites
Man in Space
3. 3. Rocket Missiles
4. 4. Man in Space Also the back cover of this issue.


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"Man in Space" is an episode of Disneyland which originally aired on March 9, 1955. It was directed by Disney animator Ward Kimball. Later, it was edited into a featurette to play in theaters, accompanying Davy Crockett and the River Pirates. This Disneyland episode (set in Tomorrowland), was narrated partly by Kimball and also by such famed scientists as Dr. Willy Ley, Dr. Heinz Haber, Dr. Wernher von Braun and Dick Tufeld of Lost in Space fame. The show talks briefly about the lighthearted history of rockets and is followed by discussions of satellites, a practical look (through humorous animation) at what spacemen will have to face in a rocket (both physically and psychologically, such as momentum, weightlessness, radiation, even space sickness) and a rocket takeoff into space.
An adaptation of the episode was published (under the title "Walt Disney's Man in Space: A Science Feature from Tomorrowland") by Dell as Four Color #716 in 1956, scripted by Don R. Christensen with art by Tony Sgroi.[1] It was actually a "novelization" in comic book form of two Walt Disney television programs, "Man in Space" (1955) and "Tomorrow the Moon" (1955). Also found as a 1956 UK reprint as "A World Distributors Movie Classic" (#45) and a 1959 combined reprint with the other 2 Dell Comics adaptations of "Man in Space" films as "Walt Disney's Man in Space" (Dell Comics Giant #27).
It was also made into a "Tomorrowland adventure" book for classroom use in 1959 as Man in Space: A Tomorrowland Adventure. Walt Disney Productions. Adapted for school use by Ley, Willy. Illustrated by Carbe, Nino. Syracuse, NY: LW Singer Co. Inc. (48 p.) 21 cm. Softcover.
It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. [2] It was released on DVD in 2004 as part of the Walt Disney Treasures line. The next episodes in this series were "Man and the Moon" and "Mars and Beyond."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_in_Space
 
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