4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 1117

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #1117 Universal
Grade: 9.4
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
Pedigree: File Copy
Certification #: 0206810014
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 3/20/2013
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

The Boy and the Pirtae-Movie Classic 6/60 File Copy Adapted from the 1960 movie "The Boy and the Pirates." "Movie Classic" on cover.

Photo Cover: Jimmy Warren (photo of Charles Herbert); Blackbeard the Pirate (photo of Murvyn Vye)
Script: Bert I. Gordon (movie story); (comic adaptation)
Pencils & Inks: Tom Gill

Table of Contents
1. 0. The Boy and the Pirates
2. 1. The Boy and the Pirates
3. 2. The Boy and the Pirates
4. 3. Pirates of New England
5. 4. The Boy and the Pirates
This copy has a model rocket AD on the back cover. Some copies ofthis issue have A BACK COVER WITH 3 PICTURES FROM THE MOVIE.


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I had never heard of this film before I saw the comic. Wikipedia furnishes some additional background on the film:

The Boy and the Pirates is a 1960 film from Bert I. Gordon ("Mr. B.I.G."), the master of giant monster films. It stars a very popular child star of the day in 12-year-old Charles Herbert and Gordon's own daughter, Susan. The story line, that of a little boy and girl trapped on the pirate ship of Blackbeard, ranges from comical at times to downright gruesome. There is a good deal of killing during the course of the film. The cook forces Jimmy at one point to take a fish and "gut and clean it, and save his entrails". There is another moment when Morgan the pirate tries to get Jimmy to reveal his coveted information by threatening to scald his mouth with a red-hot poker.
Nonetheless, it has been described as "an engaging and innovative fantasy so perfect in its service to and embellishment of genre formula, it comes across as both completely familiar, yet breathtakingly original.[1] ….
… Plot[edit]
A boy, Jimmy Warren, living along the coast in Massachusetts is upset with the unfairness of "modern" life in 1960 when his father scolds him about his school grades. He plays on a wrecked ship along the shore with Kathy. He picks up an odd jar, and wishes he were back in the olden days, on a pirate ship. When Jimmy utters "Where am I?", the magic jar pops open, and a strange little man pops out. He introduces himself as Abu the Genie, and states that he has granted Jimmy his fondest wish: to be on a real pirate ship. Jimmy scoffs at the notion, but Abu insists that they are at that very moment passengers on The Queen's Revenge, the ship of the notorious Blackbeard.
Production[edit]
"Timothy Carey on this movie, probably scared me more than The Colossus of New York!", says Charles Herbert. "But he was a nice man, and he always tried to make you feel, 'I’m not really crazy,' and you would say, 'Okay.' And then he would walk away and you’d go, 'He’s CRAZY!' He was a scary man. He’d look at me and I would run behind my mother. And I had to catch up to her, because she was tryin’ to find somebody else to hide behind!"[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_and_the_Pirates
 
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